Mike Katz – Startup Investor Profile

Mike Katz, a Venture Capitalist & Technology Enthusiast at Naspers Ventures, focuses on investments in digital media and Internet applications. He has been involved with companies like HotelTonight, J. Hilburn, KeyMe, Kontagent, SumAll, and Viddy. His investment check size ranges from $100K to $5.0M, with a sweet spot at $1.5M. He has a portfolio of 11 investments in areas such as Pre-seed Sales & CRM, Social Commerce, Marketing Tech, and Consumer Internet. Collaboration is a key aspect of his approach, actively supporting the vision of the startups he invests in.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Country: United States of America

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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Searches of public sources (Crunchbase, Tracxn, Bloomberg, Manatt profile, social posts) show Mike Katz associated with investments such as HotelTonight, KeyMe, Kontagent, SumAll, Viddy and an early Snaps angel round (announced Sep 23, 2013). No records of any investment activity within the past several years (no funding events in 2024 or 2025). The most recent documented investment found is from 2013 (Snaps), which is more than 12 months ago. Given absence of recent investment records and inability to find recent funding dates, default tag applied as not-found per instructions.

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.