Misha Gordon-Rowe

Misha Gordon-Rowe

Misha Gordon-Rowe is a Partner at Susa Ventures, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. He joined the firm in 2020 and is responsible for leading new seed stage investments across various sectors, with a particular focus on AI, enterprise software, and vertical software in industries like financial services, supply chain, and manufacturing automation.13

Prior to Susa Ventures, Misha was an early employee at Funding Circle US, a global marketplace for small business loans, where he worked on the debt capital markets team.12 He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.13

At Susa Ventures, Misha invests globally, having sourced investments for the firm in five countries. He believes that vertical AI applications are an important category moving forward, as they can provide more business value than traditional B2B workflow SaaS by augmenting human decision-making, providing personalized experiences, and embedding predictive capabilities into workflows.4

Misha emphasizes the importance of seamless integration into existing industry workflows and a focus on user-facing design for vertical AI companies to find long-term defensible strategies. He advises companies to build tools for non-technical employees to label their own data and acquire data for their core AI product by delivering value with a separate product.4