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Overview
Mike Pestana is a San Francisco-based partner in the Securities & Capital Markets practice at Paul Hastings. He represents early- and late-stage startups throughout all stages of their life cycle, along with numerous venture investors. Mike often leads strategic deals, including private financings, secondary transactions, tender offers, recapitalizations and acquisitions.
Mike regularly provides strategic business and legal advice to entrepreneurs and startups as outside general counsel. His clients represent the full range of the startup ecosystem, from one-person companies to unicorns preparing for public offerings.
Education
- J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2013
- B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
Representations
- AiDash in its $58.5 million Series C Financing led by Lightrock
- Algorized in its $4.3 million Series Seed Financing led by Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
- Breinify in its $11 million Series Seed Financing led by Gutbrain Ventures
- Terabase in its $130 million Series C Financing led by SoftBank
- Noetica in its $22 million Series A Financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Cloudian in several rounds of growth financing
- CollectiveHealth in its $280 million Series F Financing led by Health Care Service Corporation and its $205 million Series E Financing led by SoftBank
- The EVERY Co. in its $175 million Series C Financing led by McWin
- Oishii in its $150 million Series B Financing led by McWin
- Culture Biosciences in its $80 million Series B Financing led by Northpond Ventures
- DuploCloud in its $34 million Series B Financing led by WestBridge Capital and its $15 million Series A Financing led by Mayfield
- Empirical Spine in its $10 million Series B Financing led by Scientific Health Development
- Enable Global in its $120 million Series D Financing led by Lightspeed
- Future Family in its $25 million Series B Financing led by Munich Re Ventures
- HEN Nozzles in its $8 million Series A Financing
- Astronomer in its $213 million Series C Financing led by Insight Partners
- Highway9 Networks in its $25 million Series A Financing led by Mayfield
- Knocknoc in its Series Seed Financing led by Decibel Partners
- Last Energy in its $40 million Series B Financing led by Gigafund
- Mast Reforestation in its $25 million Series B Financing led by Pulse Fund and Social Capital
- Matternet in several rounds of venture financing
- Owner in its $33 million Series B Financing led by Redpoint and Altman Capital
- Peaxy in several rounds of venture financing
- Pine Park Health in its $44 million Series B Financing
- PostSig in its $1.2 million Series Seed Financing led by Frontier Venture Capital
- Reshop in its $17 million financing led by Matrix Partners
- Radiant Security in its $15 million Series A Financing led by Next47
- Sovato in its Series A Financing
- Sedai in its $15 million Series A Financing led by Norwest
- Segmed in its $10.4 million Series A Financing led by iGan Partners
- Swarmbotics in its Series Seed Financing
- StackGen in its $15 million Series A Financing led by Thomvest Ventures
- Type One Energy in its $82.4 million Series Seed Financing
- Vital Software in its $24.7 million Series B Financing led by Transformation Capital
- Usage.AI in its $9 million Series Seed Financing led by Amity Ventures
- Weee! in its $425 million Series E Financing led by SoftBank
- Flock in its sale to Paychex
- Raxium in its sale to Google
- Silk Security in its sale to Armis
- Truvalue Labs in its sale to FactSet
- Recruitology in its sale to Jobcase