Mitchell Weinstock
IgniteXL Ventures, Venture Partner
Speaker Bio
Mitchell Weinstock is a Venture Partner with IgniteXL Ventures, where he
identifies promising, leading-edge technology startups and pursues strategic
investments and partnerships to help those companies bring products to market
and scale.
Externally liaising with the worldwide institutional VCs, the corporate venture
community and country trade missions, Mitchell is defining new market
segments, products and business models that will help shape future growth.
An expert in monetization of nascent technologies and operational experience
in new product marketing, Mitchell has worked with some of the biggest names,
products, and architectures from Apple QuickTime to the first Razer gaming
mouse. He has helped and survived through five early and later stage startups
including Kinoma, Generic Media, Sonic Solutions, SuperMac, and Karna/Razer.
Mitchell is a graduate of the Venture Capital Executive Program at the
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He graduated from
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he
earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism & Mass Communication. A native
New Yorker, he currently resides in San Jose, California where he hybridizes and
grafts fruit trees. Occasionally, he will still wear a tie.