Hank Vigil spent 25 years as a senior Microsoft executive directly advising CEO Steve Ballmer and architecting major partnerships with companies like Facebook, Nokia, and Yahoo!, giving him unusually deep operator experience in complex dealmaking between large platforms and startups. He focuses on investing in AI tools that augment existing workflows and content formats, particularly seeing opportunity in unlocking value from ubiquitous business tools like Excel and underused knowledge reservoirs in podcasts and other media.
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Acequia Capital (AceCap)
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AI, Biotech, Enterprise, Logistics, Gaming / VR
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$100K - $5M
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Acequia Capital is a partnership and distributed network led by former senior Microsoft strategy executives, notably founder Hank Vigil and Charlie Songhurst, giving it an unusually deep background in global platform strategy and M&A compared to typical VC funds run by ex-founders or bankers. The firm operates as a "partnership collective" that systematically co-invests with top global funds across AI and Web3/crypto, positioning itself as a technical frontier specialist with an unusually strong hit rate as an early backer of five unicorn companies.
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