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Michael Banks is a Venture Advisor at Employee Stock Fund Otion, and the Founding Partner of Windy Hill Capital Partners, LLC. Based in the Bay Area, Michael has spent the last 15 years launching, establishing and managing two of the top strategic venture firms in the world (Intel Capital and Steamboat Ventures) and two successful private venture capital funds (Palisades Ventures and DE Shaw Ventures). At Intel Capital, Michael led both the Media Investment Group and the Architecture Labs managing a team of 20 investment professionals investing in next generation digital media, consumer, mobile and Internet technologies. At Steamboat Ventures, Disney’s venture arm, Michael led strategic investments in a variety of digital media categories. In 2003, Michael became a partner at Palisades Ventures in Los Angeles. Over the next four years, Michael led investments in 13 broadband and media technology companies helping generate top quartile returns for Palisades Ventures. In 2007, Michael
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 473 investors hold the Founding Partner role in VCSift. Michael Banks is one of them.
- • 557 investors are based in Menlo Park, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Menlo Park, US
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