Chainguard

Invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.

Banana Capital Invests in companies with category-defining products with differentiated distribution channels and with unique, capital-efficient business models with clear revenue prospects and hints of large markets They move fast, act on their conviction, and help spread the word.

Functions as a VC firm and incubator that liaisons for high-level startups and deal flow, connects influencers and celebrities to entrepreneurs and brands, and incubates global business opportunities with A-list talent.

Logical domains are cloud infrastructure, developer tools, DevOps, open source, observability as well as SaaS apps for sales and marketing. In terms of specific companies and entrepreneurs, he is looking for the same things I did when I was running large teams and hiring people: iconoclastic thinking, the courage to break paradigms, defiance of common wisdom.

Mike enjoys working with founders who are deeply steeped in their domain, feel like they’ve got something to prove, and are borderline obsessed with their idea. The passion that this creates touches all the key aspects of company formation: recruiting, selling, and (yes) fundraising. He started his VC career by joining Battery Ventures where he fell in love with the entrepreneur-facing aspect of venture capital and the ability to work with a wide array of people and technologies.

Lenny started his VC career in New York at the height of the social and mobile booms where seemingly the entire tech world was chasing the next Instagram or WhatsApp. To him, technology was always about leverage, enabling us to do more with less, to build better, faster, and cheaper, and unlock new applications and services. Fast forward a decade later, and his exploration of cloud computing, DevOps, data infrastructure, and security led me to work with generational founders of companies like Datadog, Hashicorp, and Cockroach Labs.

Turner launched Banana Capital in 2021. Prior, he ran all venture capital investing at Gelt VC and invested their second fund. Prior to Gelt, Turner was a member of the investment team at Afore Capital, where he invested in pre-seed companies. Turner previously helped manage a $1.6b endowment, and prior to that worked in credit, private equity, and corporate finance.

VC at Base Ventures (Seed-stage fund investing in early stage tech startups) Managing Director, AngelHack Accelerator (2 exits to Google and BOX) Designed innovation initiatives for F500s such as NFL, MasterCard, UBS, etc Judge at MassChallenge, Parallel18, Gaza Sky Geeks, Startup Chile, etc Speaker at Harvard Business School Blockchain & Crypto Club