Mike Farmwald


Paul Michael "Mike" Farmwald is a serial entrepreneur working in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry.
Farmwald holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow, has founded six companies, five of which were financed in part by Benchmark Capital, where he is a venture partner.
He has founded these companies:
Farmwald invests directly in startups through Skymoon Ventures. His recent investments include technology companies incubated at Skymoon R&D as well as companies that bring technology to traditional business.
He has publicly criticized and shorted the stock of technology companies he believes are defrauding investors by misrepresenting their technology. In 2005, he shorted ParkerVision, a RF semiconductor IP company, and created a website detailing their problems with the company.