Mike Van Kempen

Managing Partner at SUM Ventures
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(386) 825-5501
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Greater Chicago Area

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Experience

    • Italy
    • Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
    • Managing Partner
      • Jan 2022 - Present

      Chicago, Illinois, United States SUM Ventures invests in founders building fast-growth technology startups. While its current investment focus is on early stage FinTech and PropTech, the firm also invests opportunistically across all industries. Launched in 2022, SUM made fourteen investments its first year. SUM Ventures can write checks up to $750,000 with most falling around $500,000. Los Angeles | Chicago | New York. www.sum.vc

    • United States
    • Real Estate
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Advisor
      • Apr 2021 - Present

      Concreit is making investing in real estate accessible to everyone. With an app-based investment platform, Concreit has taken all the friction out of real estate investing to give ordinary people a way to unlock their inner tycoon. I am an advisor to the CEO on growth and strategic matters.

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • VP of Marketing
      • Dec 2022 - Nov 2023

      Boulder, Colorado, United States The VC fund for everyone. Shape the future by investing in the asset class that empowers world-changing founders and companies. Download the Sweater app, and add venture capital to your portfolio. Oversaw the entire marketing function at Sweater including growth, paid acquisition, lifecycle marketing, and creative teams.

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Operating Officer & Board Member
      • Sep 2019 - Jun 2022

      COO from inception through Series B ($100m+ valuation). Managed growth (scaled company from nothing to over 450k parents and kids), brand, finance, compliance & human resources and led diligence through four rounds of funding.

    • United Kingdom
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Growth
      • Apr 2015 - Sep 2019

      Grew the company to over 7M investment accounts and $1B valuation while leading the Growth & Acquisition team. I also oversaw the Analytics team during my time there.

    • United States
    • Management Consulting
    • Sr. Business Analyst
      • Sep 2014 - Apr 2015

      Diligence - $12.1M Series B Funding -a16z, NEA, DAG & Lightbank Growth & Analytics -Led projects that fueled growth across all aspects of the business - growing from 1,000 to over 11,000 merchants and accumulating a member base of over 2 million people.

    • Financial Analyst
      • May 2012 - Sep 2014

      Chicago, IL

    • United States
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Accounting Intern
      • Apr 2012 - Jun 2012

      Internship duties consist of journal entries, processing checks, filing, entering invoices into accounting software, and working extensively with Microsoft Excel.

Education

  • Loyola University Chicago
    Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General
    2008 - 2012

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