Team

Mike Hirshland is the Co-founder of Resolute Ventures. He has been an investor and contributor to the early stage ecosystem for 23 years.

Mike launched Resolute Ventures in 2011, where he has led seed investments in Companies including BarkBox (NYSE BARK), Opendoor (NYSE OPEN), Sunrise (acquired by Microsoft), Bitium (acquires by Google), Orbitera (acquired by Google), WHOOP, Greenhouse and Signifyd, among many others. Mike previously led the seed round for Automattic (WordPress).

Prior to Resolute, Mike was a partner at Polaris Ventures from 1999-2011, where he created Dogpatch Labs, the founder community which helped launch over 350 companies including Instagram, TaskRabbit and Twilio. 

Mike has four grown children, and is an avid (though mediocre) skier, sailor, Buddhist meditator and tennis player. Mike is also a closet constitutional geek, having clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M.  Kennedy and served as counsel to the U.S Senate Judiciary Committee, where he led the original Microsoft Antitrust Investigation. 

Raanan Bar-Cohen is the Co-Founder of Resolute Ventures and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Raanan has been an entrepreneur, executive, angel, and now investor for over 25 years. Before Resolute, Raanan was at Automattic / WordPress.com for seven years, running the enterprise and corp dev operations. Prior to Automattic, Raanan worked at Dow Jones, Time Warner, and ran his own web agency back in the Web 1.0 days. Remember enhanced CDs?

At Resolute, Raanan has led pre-seed and seed investments in companies, including ActiveFence, AI Reverie (acquired by Meta), AppZen, Beyond Pricing, Carmera (acquired by Toyota), Clutter, Hello Heart, Metadata, Passport Shipping, TruStar (acquired by Splunk), UJET, and Vercel.

Monica is a Partner at Resolute. Before Resolute, Monica was at Fractal Software, where she led the investment team that launched 150 vertical SaaS startups. Prior to joining Fractal, Monica founded Function, an investor syndicate comprised of family offices in Miami that invested in early stage financings of companies including Kushki, Truv, Seek AI, Vimcal, and Rime, and served as a scout for Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Before transitioning into VC, Monica was an early team member at Clever, an edtech API startup backed by Sequoia and Lightspeed. She also held investing roles at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Providence Equity Partners. Monica earned her BS from MIT and MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University.

Outside of work, Monica spends most of her time with her wife and two toddlers and is an avid sports fan (primarily baseball, golf, and tennis) and reader of biographies.

Rodi Guse is the VP of Finance at Resolute Ventures.  Rodi has over 20 years of finance and operations management experience within venture capital and private equity organizations.  Before Resolute, Rodi was a Controller at Aduro Advisors, a venture capital fund administrator.  Prior to that, she the Controller at Coral Group, a venture capital fund, and Northstar Capital, a private equity fund.

A northern California native, Jessica started her VC career in 2014 after a few years of globe trotting and adventure-seeking. A first team member at Felicis Ventures, she was the operations lead and a chief builder for the founder community. She took a hiatus from VC and cut her teeth in the creative world at an agency and later as a leader for marketing and communications at Lyft and in the education space. Forever drawn to the buzz of Silicon Valley, she jumped back in, serving as a Chief of Staff at a 20-person blockchain startup.There she scaled the company to 200 people and was instrumental in leading projects across the company– creative, operational and everything in between. She met Resolute through a lucky and unexpected series of events, and quickly recognized them as distinctly different. At Resolute, she is responsible for founder engagement and success, making awesome events, supporting business operations, and keeping things moving forward.