Mike Gamson

Mike is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Permanent Capital Ventures, an expansion stage venture capital firm. Before Permanent Capital Ventures, Mike had a successful career as an operator and investor.

Mike was previously CEO at Evozyne, a Chicago based A.I. biotech company that aims to make novel proteins that can solve long standing challenges in therapeutics and sustainability.

Prior to Evozyne, Mike was CEO of Relativity, a Chicago-based legal technology company most recently valued at $3.6B and backed by SilverLake as well as Iconiq Capital.. As CEO he significantly grew and expanded the company, accelerated industry adoption of new products, and developed the company’s social impact programs.

Most notably, Mike spent 11 years at LinkedIn as the #2 operating executive leading the company across all revenue functions. Mike oversaw all commercial activity at LinkedIn globally, growing revenue from ~$10M to >$5B and the successful $26B acquisition by Microsoft.