Mike Volpe
Mike Volpe is a seasoned SaaS executive, advisor, and board member who currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Silversmith Capital Partners. He is best known as a founding team member and former CMO of HubSpot, where he helped grow the company from five people to over $175 million in revenue through a successful IPO. He also served as CEO of Lola.com (acquired by Capital One), CMO at Cybereason, and sits on the boards of Validity Inc., Funnel, and Ziflow while advising companies including Brevo and Gorgias.
“Mike was an operator, worked at Cisco for a long time, ran CorpDev. I think he did over 100 acquisitions.”
Source→“Simile has raised $300M total — $100M round ~five months ago, followed by a $200M round led by Green Oaks, with Index Ventures (Shardul Shah) as insider and lead of prior round.”
Source→“Mike Volpe runs his own VC firm (formerly associated with Aster). Led Simile's seed round alongside Shardul Shah. Introduced Jun to Lainey Allen and acted as an operating mentor for Jun as a first-time CEO.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.