Partner
Mike Edelhart
Co-Founder Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Joyance Partners (+1 more)
- Firm
- Joyance Partners, Social Starts
- Title
- Co-Founder Emeritus and Senior Advisor
- Role
- Advisor
- Location
- San Francisco
- Known as
- Investor
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Record updated 18 September 2026
About
Mike has been active in tech journalism, product testing, startups, and VC for over four decades. In the 1980s, Mike helped found PC Magazine and other Ziff-Davis computer magazines, oversaw the Ziff product testing labs, and later was Ziff's Executive Vice President. At SoftBank, he directed content for the Seybold, Interop, and Comdex conferences. Mike has been CEO at many startups, including Olive Software, Inman News, and Zinio. In the early 2000s, Mike was a partner at Redleaf, a corporately-backed multi-stage VC fund.
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