Michael Dougherty – Startup Investor Profile

Michael Dougherty is a Principal at Sverica Capital Management based in the San Francisco office. He focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities, transaction execution, and portfolio company support. Michael sits on the board of Cytracom, DeFy Security, Gorilla Logic, ShadowDragon, and Zyston. His background includes prior work as an analyst in Deutsche Bank’s Financial Institutions Group in New York City, with a focus on the Financial Technology sector. Michael earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Brown University.

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Country: United States of America

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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: PR Newswire shows Michael Dougherty joined Zyston’s board as part of a Sverica growth investment dated July 11, 2023. From that date to November 1, 2025 is 2 years and nearly 4 months, which would normally be >12 months. However additional Sverica investments listing Michael include a Sverica growth investment in Four Inc. dated Sep 17, 2024 (Sverica site) where Michael is listed on the transaction – this is within 6-12 months? Sept 17, 2024 to Nov 1, 2025 is 1 year and 1.5 months (>12 months). The most recent confirmed transaction involving Michael is Sep 17, 2024 (Four Inc.). That is 13.5 months before Nov 1, 2025, placing the last known investment more than 12 months ago, which corresponds to low-active. However, given evidence of board joins in 2023 and 2024 and no public investment within the last 12 months, classification is low-active.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.