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About Investor

Mike Smerklo is Co-Founder and Managing Director at Next Coast Ventures, specializing in investments across Retail, Marketplaces, Health IT, Health & Hospital Services, Wellness & Fitness, and Digital Health at Seed, Series A, and Series B stages with investment ranges between $3.0M - $5.0M. His background includes serving as former CEO of ServiceSource, which he scaled into a publicly-traded company worth nearly a billion dollars, and former Director of Business Development at Opsware, bringing extensive operating experience to his venture capital role along with an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and authorship of the entrepreneurial guide "Mr. Monkey and Me."