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Michael Dempsey

Managing Partner, Compound

About

Michael Dempsey approaches venture investing as applied science, spending most of his time reading scientific papers and building mental models of emerging fields before making investments rather than treating research as a side activity. He has developed formal processes to help deep-tech founders with long development cycles raise capital without compromising their technical missions to fit typical venture timelines, and regularly shares his detailed reasoning about value capture and market evolution through long-form public conversations. Michael Dempsey approaches venture investing as applied science, spending most of his time reading scientific papers and building mental models of emerging fields before making investments rather than treating research as a side activity. He has developed formal processes to help deep-tech founders with long development cycles raise capital without compromising their technical missions to fit typical venture timelines, and regularly shares his detailed reasoning about value capture and market evolution through long-form public conversations.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
BioTech
Web3
Crypto
Robotics
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$400K - $1.5M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Europe