Michael Binko Email & Phone Number

Michael Binko is a Innovation | Ventures | Ecosystems | Capital at ENTEVATE based in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, North America. Michael Binko (aka ⟨ b|nko ⟩) sees innovation and entrepreneurship as the launchfuel for healthy ecosystems and is passionate about celebrating those with the courage to STRT1UP®. binko is a serial entrepreneur, Innovation Ecosystem Builder, venture funder (angel+seed+VC), data scientist and brand-hound ideator. He has managed Corporate Strategy, Operations, Corporate Ventures/Development, Finance, Analyst/Investor/Media Relations and Sales/Marketing for public companies (PSINet, XYBR, Oracle Federal, Apple Federal, NEXT Software, SCO, Novell, TrueBlue) as well as high growth startups and raised more than $2 billion in equity funding via global capital markets. binko's sweet-spot venture life cycle stages are late Bootstrap to Rampup/Scaleup when founders+teams are evaluated under the scrutiny lens of "Prove It at Scale." binko has been a Venture Mentor | Sherpa to thousands of entrepreneurs and founding teams -- keeping a warm spot for first-time founders. binko is a CoFounder and Policy+Advocacy Chair for the Startup Champions Network (SCN), the continuation of Startup America established to support inclusive Innovation+Entrepreneur Ecosystems. Since founding SCN, binko has led initiatives for Deal-flow Mapping, Venture Capital, Portfolio Innovation, Policy+Legislative Advocacy, Ecosystem Metrics, Branding and Sponsor+Teaming with Kauffman Foundation, Revolution Ventures, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, TRowePrice and others. binko was an early leader of Startup America as coFounder | CEO of Startup Maryland® -- a Top 3 Startup America Ecosystem (metric: startup density/per capita population). Core programs include the STRT1UP Roadshow, Raise Your Game Bootcamp and Angel Academy. binko CoFounded the Black Butterfly Network, was CoFounder | CMO of LaunchFuel® (venture studio) and founded STRT1UP Ventures® with portfolio companies including: Quidient, American Gene Technologies (AGT), Fluent, AUTIX, Cohado, IES Life Science, kloudtrack®, Quantum Compliance. As an angel investor innovation categories include: Cyber, Quantum, Blockchain, Cloud, AI/ML, Metaverse, Gene+Cell Therapy, and Data/Analytics across sectors. binko holds 2 honors degrees from James Madison U and the Innovation Management graduate program offered jointly by the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering and Smith School of Business. He has instructed on venture development at UMD, MIT, GMU, GWU, Johns Hopkins, VT and other universities. He is a Business Evaluator for NIST, NSF i-Corps sherpa-mentor and an Accelerators contributor for The Wall Street Journal.