Sean Ammirati, Partner

Sean is lead partner of Birchmere Labs, a seed and studio fund focused on community driven commerce startups. He heads our investments in NoWait, Crystal, Jazz, LegalSifter, Earshot, and The Zebra.

Sean has over 12 years experience founding, building, and selling businesses in the media and software industries. He was previously COO of ReadWriteWeb (acquired by SAY Media), one of the most influential sites about the future of technology and innovation. Sean was also co-founder and CEO of mSpoke (personalized recommendation engine; LinkedIn’s first acquisition) and director of business development at Peak Strategy (quantitative alpha modeling tool; acquired by Morgan Stanley).

Sean is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School. Based on his CMU coursework, he authored The Science of Growth, to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016. Sean was also a founding advisor to Innovation Works’ AlphaLab accelerator.

Sean holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Grove City College. He was also a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon’s Sloan Software Industry Center.