Mike Vernal
General partner at Conviction; earlier a partner at Sequoia and a VP at Facebook.
- Mike Vernal is a general partner at Conviction, the AI venture firm founded by Sarah Guo.
- He joined in 2025, when Conviction closed its second fund.
- Before that he spent nearly seven years as a partner at Sequoia, leaving in 2023.
- Earlier he spent eight years at Facebook as a VP of product and engineering.
Why it matters. For founders of AI companies raising early rounds and for people tracking AI venture investing; he brings an operator's product background from Facebook's developer platform.
- Current role
- General partner at Conviction, joined 20251
- Sequoia
- Partner, 2016-05 to 20232
- Led at Sequoia
- Notion, Rippling and Verkada1
- 2008 to 2016; VP of Search, Local and Developer products; ran the Facebook Platform team 2009 to 20132
- Led at Conviction
- Instinct, OpenEvidence and Thinking Machines Lab, among others2
- Education
- Harvard University, AB and SM in Computer Science, 20022
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