Michael Cohen is an accomplished Corporate Venture Capital Executive involved in over 40 transactions with an extensive background in Venture Capital, Corporate & Investment Banking, and Investment Management. Michael has significant experience in fundraising and business development, and management of relationships with investors and companies in the Technology, Telecommunications, Mobility, and Deep Tech sectors. 

Michael is an Investment Director with SAIC Capital and is responsible for SAIC Investment verticals including autonomous driving, AI, new forms of energy (battery technologies, hydrogen, etc.), software, security, human-machine interaction, big data/cloud, semiconductors, as well as disruptive business models. 

Michael previously served as a Managing Director and the Chairman of the Investment Committee of Venovate Marketplace, Inc. Michael was previously the Managing Principal for Global Crossing Ventures, the founder of Advanced Data Centers, and the founder of Industry Ventures Acquisition Fund (Aperture). Michael was also associated with CIBC Oppenheimer’s Technology Investment Banking Group where he completed over $1 billion of transactions and as a Senior Consultant for KPMG. Michael has an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a BA from Connecticut College.