Founding Partner at M25
View Live Interactive Profile →Mike Asem is listed by M25 as Founding Partner of the Chicago-based early-stage venture firm, whose site states he has managed over 100 investments in early-stage companies. Before M25 he founded The Anvil, a co-working space and startup incubator at Purdue University, where he helped launch Purdue's first Y Combinator-accepted startup. He serves on the board of BLCK VC and is a Kauffman Fellow, Class 24. M25's founder and Managing Partner Victor Gutwein wrote in the firm's May 2025 decade retrospective that his partner Mike left a stable job to start the firm alongside him.