Partner Emeritus at Underscore VC · Joined 2015
View Live Interactive Profile →Michael Skok co-founded the Boston venture capital firm Underscore VC in 2015 with John Pearce and Richard Dulude, and Underscore's team page now lists him as Partner Emeritus. Before Underscore he was a general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, where TechCrunch reported he backed Demandware and Acquia, and before that he spent 21 years as a software entrepreneur and CEO, including at AlphaBlox, which was acquired by IBM, and Symantec UK. His bio states he has served on or is active on private and public boards including Acquia, Salsify, CloudZero and TetraScience, and that he focuses on breakthrough technologies and business models such as SaaS, cloud and open source. He is an executive in residence at Harvard Business School and created the Startup Secrets series.