Bio

Michael is an early-stage VC investor at firstminute capital, a $315m seed fund investing across Europe backed by a network of 120+ unicorn founders. Before that he spent more than a decade as a journalist, most recently as founding editor of Sifted.eu, and before that as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. At Sifted, he helped scale the company from an idea to a media platform with a team of 50 journalists and engineers producing world-class, in-depth coverage of the European technology landscape. At the Financial Times, he was senior correspondent and bureau chief in Paris, Madrid, Stockholm and New York. As a foreign correspondent, he interviewed break-through founders, anonymous hackers, rogue traders, presidents, military dictators, global CEOs, and quirky billionaires. He joined the firstminute investment team in 2022, leads coverage of France and sits on the Boards of Typology and Plum. He has a first-class degree from Cambridge University.