Michael Robinson

Partner, Head of Investment Team

Michael Robinson is a Partner and Head of the Investment Team at Craft, where he oversees the firm’s investments with a focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure and AI applications companies.

Throughout his career, Michael has paired investing with hands-on operating work, stepping into leadership roles to help founders and executive teams build the systems required to scale. Craft first got to know Michael through ClickUp, where he served as CFO during a major scaling period after leading the company’s Series B round. He also served as CFO at Noname Security, where he helped strengthen the company’s financial and operational foundation during a period of rapid growth. At Flashpoint, as Head of Operational Acceleration, he led a go-to-market turnaround that contributed to record bookings and accelerated growth at scale. He brings that operator’s mindset to his work with founders, helping companies translate early momentum into enduring scale.

Michael joined Craft in 2022 to lead the firm’s Growth investment practice, and his role expanded in 2025 to lead venture and growth investing. At Craft, Michael has helped shape the firm’s investment strategy, strengthen its investment processes, and build a disciplined, high-performing team. His hands-on approach has also influenced Craft’s operator in residence model for portfolio support, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to working deeply with founders on the strategic and operational challenges of building generational companies.

Before joining Craft, Michael was a Lead Investor at Georgian Partners, where he led and managed growth equity investments in technology businesses. Earlier in his career, he worked in the Technology, Media, and Telecom group at Goldman Sachs.

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Michael Robinson
Zao Chen

All in on Supabase: the Default Backend for Software Development

AI is causing an explosion in software creation and Supabase has become the default backend for this new era.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kevin Gabura
Dan Moor

Our Partnership with Oasis Security: Securing Access for the Agentic Era

Craft Ventures leads Oasis Security's $120M Series B for Agentic Access Management platform, securing non-human identities as machine identities outnumber humans 82:1, with ARR growing 5x year-over-year among Fortune 500 customers.

Why We Invested
Dan Moor
Michael Robinson
Zao Chen

WorkOS: Investing in Developer Infrastructure for Enterprise Readiness

WorkOS secures $100M Series C to eliminate the "enterprise readiness detour" that stalls SaaS and AI deals, offering developers a plug-in infrastructure layer — SSO, Directory Sync, RBAC and more — so companies can unlock enterprise sales in days rather than engineering it themselves over months.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kevin Gabura

Investing in Upwind Security’s Series B, Triple Down!

Setting the standard for what comes next in cloud security

Why We Invested
Kevin Gabura
Michael Robinson

Daylight Security: Investing in the Future of Managed Agentic Security Services

Craft Ventures leads Daylight Security's $33M Series A, backing AI-powered Managed Agentic Security Services that reduce alert volume by 90% and cut costs by 75% versus traditional MDR providers.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Dan Moor
Kindle Van Linge

Our Partnership with OpenEvidence: The Intelligence Layer for Modern Medicine

Craft invests in OpenEvidence, AI-powered medical search platform used daily by over half of U.S. physicians, powering 15M+ monthly clinical consultations and achieving 100% on US Medical Licensing Exam.Retry

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
J Zac Stein
Zao Chen

Why We Invested in Starbridge

Craft Ventures leads Starbridge.ai's $42M Series A to power AI-driven intelligence for state, local, and education (SLED) procurement, with 150+ customers since early 2025 launch. Retry.

Craft Insights
Aaron Cort
Michael Robinson

Inside Supabase’s Breakout Growth: Lessons Scaling to 4.5M+ Devs, Powering AI Coding & Vibe Coding

Supabase scales to 4.5M+ developers with community-first growth, achieving $5B Series E by focusing on database initialization as key activation event and serving two distinct developer segments.

Craft Insights
Zao Chen
Michael Robinson
Aaron Cort

Inside Supabase’s Product & Community Led Growth

Supabase grows with product-led and open-source strategy, now powering 3.5M+ databases and backed by $200M Series D.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kindle Van Linge

Why We Invested in Norm Ai

Norm Ai raises $48M to revolutionize compliance with AI, backed by top firms and industry leaders.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kevin Gabura

Why We Invested in Upwind Security… Again

Craft Ventures leads $100M Series A in Upwind Security, revolutionizing cloud security with an eBPF-driven platform.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Zao Chen

Why We Invested in Supabase

Craft Ventures co-led Supabase's $80M Series C. The Postgres-based platform helps developers build and scale apps quickly.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Zao Chen

Why We Invested in Onehouse

We’re excited to announce that Craft led the $35M Series B round in Onehouse, the universal data lakehouse platform.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kevin Gabura

Why We Invested in Replit

Craft invests $20M in Replit and lends PLG expertise to help unlock growth and empower the next billion software creators.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kevin Gabura
Bil Harmer

Why We Invested In Upwind Security

Craft is thrilled to participate in Upwind Security’s $50M funding round. Upwind has now raised $80M in less than a year.

Why We Invested
Michael Robinson
Kevin Gabura
Bil Harmer

Why We Invested in Horizon3.ai

Craft Ventures led the $40M Series C in cybersecurity company Horizon3.ai, maker of NodeZero.

Craft Insights
Michael Robinson

Efficiency as the Primary Operating Principle

Eight initiatives for SaaS companiesto increase efficiency in an economic downturn.