Michael B. Schwab
Michael Schwab, founder and managing partner of Big Sky Partners, is an active and engaged investment professional with nearly a decade of experience investing in, and mentoring, early stage companies through every stage of company growth and development. Since founding Big Sky in 1999, Mr. Schwab has remained disciplined in his investment approach across all 22 portfolio company investments, highlighting the firm's primary focus on people first; on sharing aligned interests with early stage entrepreneurs and dedicated management teams. This approach has remained steady throughout the technology boom, bust and recent cycle of re-emergent opportunities within Silicon Valley, and has proven invaluable time and again across a range of industry segments and sectors.
To date, Big Sky Partners maintains a broad portfolio of high tech, real estate, financial, alternative energy and premium service sector capital investments, and seeks to further broaden its reach into clean technology, real estate development and other emerging high growth startup opportunities. Mr. Schwab currently sits on the Board of Directors of MongoNet and Solaicx Inc., and was a founding Board Member of ProcessClaims, an insurance claims software startup that represents his most recent liquidity event, returning a significant multiple on invested capital for all of the company's early stage investors. Mr. Schwab's latest investment in sales software startup, InsideView, represents his further commitment to investing at the earliest stages of company formation, and he will soon join as venture partner and member of the investment committee of Greenhouse Capital, a seed stage fund with a primary focus on alternative energy and clean technology startups. In addition, Mr. Schwab is an active member of several charitable organizations and family-related foundations.