Michael Young Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

The Clover Group provides structured and comprehensive technical due diligence on product technology companies and software-enabled businesses. We advise on deals ranging from $5M A-rounds to $100M+ majority stake investments and acquisitions. We see a lot of growth stage companies and have assisted with over two billion dollars of deployed capital.We take pride in the thoroughness of our tech diligence process. Our core areas of focus are Team, Product, and Process - always with an eye on security and scalability. We love working with startups and investors and we can't wait to tell you more about our approach.

Managing member and principal consultant. Working with startups and investors in various capacities including:• Management consulting• Advisory roles• M&A consulting• Technical due diligenceInvestor clients include: Level Equity, Five Elms Capital, Aquiline Capital Partners, Lock 8 Partners, Ten Coves Capital, Blue Cloud Ventures, Blueprint Capital, Portag3 Ventures, and OMERS.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Classy is an online fundraising SaaS platform exclusively for nonprofits. Scaled Engineering from 7 to 40 people and re-architected the product into an enterprise-class platform. With an upmarket strategy driving customer growth, donation volume rose from $75M to $500M per year. Established a rigorous security program and achieved PCI-DSS Level 1. Started a data science team which published Classy's "State of Modern Philanthropy" and other research. Customers include Shriners Hospitals, Salvation Army, Team Rubicon, and Girls Who Code. Technologies include AWS, Node.js, PHP, React, Angular, MySQL, Redshift, Lambda, Docker. Acquired by GoFundMe in 2022.

Mobile apps for pop culture content. Built on Java, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS. Outsourced teams in Eastern Europe and South America.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led Engineering from the early startup stage to become a technology leader in real estate. As CTO, revenue grew from $250k to $55 million per year despite the 2008 downturn. Traffic soared from 200k to 5 million monthly uniques across Web, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Scaled up the R&D team from 10 to 60 people across offices in Seattle and San Francisco. IPO in July 2017 (NASDAQ:RDFN).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Program Manager on BizTalk, Server and Tools Division

San Francisco, Us

Architect of the original portal platform and Web Services Architecture for developing enterprise integrations. Plumtree became the leader in enterprise information portals. Drove a major product and cultural changeover from using C++ to Java and C#/.NET. Helped scale the technology and team from $0 to $100M+ revenue and from 10 to 150 people in Engineering. IPO in 2002 (NASDAQ:PLUM). Acquired by BEA in 2005 (renamed AquaLogic User Interaction).

Imaging, document management, workflow/BPM enterprise software.