Mike Droesch is a partner in the Cambridge office primarily focusing on AI applications, cybersecurity, supply chain software, and B2B marketplaces. He currently serves on the board of directors for Tackle, Curri, Raft, Cypress, Netography, Optimal Dynamics, and VendorPM.
Previously, Mike worked with a few venture-backed startups in Boston, including two Bessemer portfolio companies, Fuze and InsightSquared, where he supported sales operations and analytics efforts. He started his career as a systems engineer and then spent nearly three years in management consulting at Navigant, where he helped companies build new businesses around emerging energy and infrastructure technologies in the U.S. and Middle East.
He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master’s Degree in naval architecture and engineering from the University of Michigan, and a degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University.
“We are still in the early days of the digitization of B2B commerce, a massive shift that is being driven by bold founders with the ambition to transform the largest industries on the planet.”
ACV Auctions provides a mobile app and web platform that allows car dealers to quickly buy and sell wholesale vehicles through live auctions.
ACV went public in March 2021 (NASDAQ: ACVA).
Cypress.io enables front-end testing for anything that runs in the browser.
Devo unlocks the full value of machine data for the world’s most instrumented enterprises by putting more data to work now.
Okera enables the management of data access and governance at scale for today’s modern heterogeneous data environments.
Okera was acquired by Databricks in May 2023.
