North Bay NEXT 2025 - Confirmed Speaker

Mike Ghaffary

General Partner, Burst Capital Ventures

Mike Ghaffary is a General Partner at Burst Capital Ventures. He previously invested at Canvas Ventures, Social Capital, and Summit Partners. He has invested in OfferFit.ai, Strava, Superhuman, Faire, CloudKitchens, and Optimizely.

Mike spent a decade building companies as a founder and operator, including as SVP of Yelp, CEO of Eat24, Co-Founder of Stitcher, Co-Founder of BarMax, and others.

He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and has a Computer Science degree from USC.