Michael Hirshland

Michael Hirshland is a Co-Founder of Resolute Ventures. Hirshland serves as the Board Member & Advisor at Signifyd. He served as the Board Member at Pact. He has been an investor and contributor to the early stage ecosystem for 15 years. Throughout this time, Mike has consistently been a leader in bringing members of the startup community together. Most notably, Mike created Dogpatch Labs, the community which helped launch over 350 companies including Instagram. Mike also created the renowned Digital Media Summit at Jackson Hole, attended by many of the leading founders between 2005-20011. As an early stage investor, Mike was a partner with Polaris Venture Partners from 1999-2011, where he was the original seed investor behind Automattic, and backed other companies including Q1 Labs (acquired by IBM for $600 million), Quantcast and KISSmetrics.