Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Startup Junkie.
Calgary, Canada Area
- Current
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- Angel Investor at Tynt.com
- CEO, Co-Founder at CambrianHouse.com
- Angel Investor at Bridgewerx.com
- Member, Board of Directors at RenoWorks
- Angel Investor at SiSystems.com
- Angel Investor at Evoco.com
- Angel Investor at CoolItSystems.com
- Owner at Sikorsky Ventures
- Past
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- Founder and Chairman, Board of Directors at BrightSpotConsulting.Com
- Vice President, Managing Director of Canadian Operations and Investor (via Acquisition) at ThoughtWorks Inc.
- Co-Founder and CEO at Servidium Inc.
- Education
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- University of Alberta
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Michael J. Sikorsky’s Summary
Michael J. Sikorsky, CEO Cambrian House: Michael loves startups, software and people. Since the age of 14, he has been involved in community-based software development and entrepreneurship.
His fifth - and most recent - startup Cambrian House launched in 2006. Since then, it has become an internationally-recognized leader in crowdsourcing (leveraging the wisdom and participation of online crowds for commerce).
In his role as CEO, Michael has been invited to speak about Web 2.0, entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing at Cyberport Hong Kong, Harvard Business School, MIT, Community 2.0 Las Vegas, MESH Toronto and has been interviewed by the Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Business Week, UK Guardian and more.
In March 2007 he won the Great Canadian Pitch-Off at the Canadian Venture Forum and was named Canada’s Internet Revolutionary by Profit magazine. In August 2007 Cambrian House was labeled #3 out of the top 10 world shaking business models by Business 2.0.
Michael sold his last software company, Servidium, to ThoughtWorks, received a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta and holds a software patent related to innovative rendering techniques.
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Specialties:
Angel investment, startups, marketing, technology and crowdsourcing
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Experience
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Angel Investor
Tynt.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
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CEO, Co-Founder
CambrianHouse.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Cambrian House's mission is to discover and commercialize software ideas through the wisdom and participation of crowds. Contributors earn royalties, sharing in the success of the products.
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Angel Investor
Bridgewerx.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
BRIDGEWERX is the only company providing integration Software as a Service (SaaS) with deployment to an appliance specifically for service providers and small and medium size businesses (SMB). BRIDGEWERX was created as the software division of 5by5 Software Ventures.
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Member, Board of Directors
RenoWorks
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; TSX VENTURE:RW; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
RenoWorks Software Inc. has developed a visualization sales tool for the new home construction and remodeling industries. RenoWorks "Picture the Difference" software uses digital imaging to showcase exterior building products on a picture of the customer's home. The software enables dealer/contractors to provide a "before and after" digital image of the exterior of the home using a database of manufacturers products.
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Angel Investor
SiSystems.com
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
S.i. Systems is a national supplier of contract I.T. professionals to businesses across Canada with offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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Angel Investor
Evoco.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Evoco specializes in web-based project management software and document management solutions that accelerate their customers' pace of expansion by increasing the profitability and productivity of their volume-build projects. Evoco’s online services enable project collaboration, business process automation, document and print management.
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Angel Investor
CoolItSystems.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)
CoolIT has been working with leaders in the computer industry to research, design, and provide an affordable new cooling product that provides a comprehensive solution for end users while exceeding high OEM standards.
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Owner
Sikorsky Ventures
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)
Sikorsky Ventures is a private equity investment firm that has helped finance industry revolutionizing technology companies including Evoco.com, Servidium.com, SiSystems.com,BRIDGEWERX.com, CoolItSystems.com, Servidium.com and CambrianHouse.com.
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Founder and Chairman, Board of Directors
BrightSpotConsulting.Com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — January 2007 (3 years 1 month)
BrightSpot is an Alberta based "consultant-focused" company providing IT professionals on contract. Founded in 2004 by Michael Sikorsky and Rob Shaw, the firm has built its practice on attracting skilled consultants, and in turn providing great service to its corporate clients.
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Vice President, Managing Director of Canadian Operations and Investor (via Acquisition)
ThoughtWorks Inc.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 7 months)
Responsible for driving unprecedented growth at ThoughtWorks Canada’s Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto branches.
ThoughtWorks a transnational IT professional services firm providing application development and systems integration services to Global 1000 companies. -
Co-Founder and CEO
Servidium Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 7 months)
Servidium is a software company focused on the development of web-enabled
enterprise applications using advanced technologies. The company has extensive
expertise in enterprise application integration, high-end Java architecture,
and J2EE technologies, and is a strategic member of the Sun Developer
Connection(SM) program with Sun Microsystems, Inc. Servidium was acquired by ThoughtWorks Inc. in Oct. 2001.
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Education
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University of Alberta
Engineering , Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1996
Additional Information
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Websites:
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Interests:
New technology, startups, investing, software development, crowdsourcing, co-creation/co-creating
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Groups:
Apegga, CambrianHouse Crowdsourcing Community, MovingFromWeToMe.com
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Linking Calgary -
STIRR Canada -
Digital Alberta -
B2B Marketing and Sales Optimization Group -
artsScene in Alberta (Edmonton and Calgary) -
iPhone and Mac Calgary -
Canada West Foundation -
Mob4hire Crowd Testing and Mobile Market Research
Michael J. Sikorsky’s Honors:
2007 - Best Elevator Pitch - Won a national elevator pitch contest at Canadian Venture Forum. [http://tinyurl.com/2wb92s]
2007 - Declared an "Internet Revolutionary" - Cover of Profit Magazine.
2007 - YouTube of Ideas - Interviewed by Red Herring (April).
2007 - Honorary Mention - The Webby Awards - RobinHood Fund.
2006 - Billion Man Research Firm - Interviewed by Financial Times (UK).
2003 - Bronze Medal - IntenseIT Programming Competition.
2002 - Awarded US Patent No. 6,684,370 for Methods, techniques, software and systems for rendering multiple sources of input into a single output. [http://tinyurl.com/2mm4jf]
1994 - Stetson Schloarship in Engineering.
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