Michelle Edwards

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General Partner, Thornfield Ventures - venture capital · pricing · go-to-market

Thornfield Ventures
Montreal, QC · ET (UTC-5)
18+ years experience
Queen's University
English, French
Investing
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Overview

26 years around startups; now investing in B2B SaaS. Sit on 5 boards. Led or co-led 40 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: PwC and Wealthsimple. Most at home with pricing and hardware. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in B2B SaaS
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
  • Working sessions on hardware
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Decks without a clear ask

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
hardwarego-to-marketpricingventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into seed B2B SaaS in the UK

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
B2B SaaS, AI applications
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 3 weeks.

Montreal, QCgo-to-markethardwarepricing
Open

Experience

  1. General Partner
    Sep 2022 - Present
    Thornfield Ventures · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 21 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2019 - Sep 2022
    PwC · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Shipped 16 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 22% in two quarters.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    Jul 2015 - May 2019
    Wealthsimple · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.3% to 99.9%.
  4. Frontend Engineer
    Apr 2012 - Jul 2015
    Bell Canada · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 15 a week to 1.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 46% in two quarters.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2008 - Apr 2012
    Microsoft · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. Queen's University
    BCom, Computer Science
    1995 - 1999

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