Michael Goguen

Michael Lewis Goguen (born March 8, 1964) is an American engineer and businessman. He is a former partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and as of 2015 was ranked at number 52 on Forbes magazine's annual Midas List of the best dealmakers in technology and life science venture capital. Career Goguen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts / Science from Cornell University, then proceeded to gain his Masters of Science from Stanford University. Goguen was employed by Sequoia from 1996 to 2016, during which time was a board member of startups including OpenDNS, Quantenna Communications, Versa Networks, vIPtela, and Infoblox. He led Sequoia's investments in Ardent (CSCO), Avanex (AVNX), LitePoint (TER), LogLogic (TIBX), MaxComm (CSCO), Monterey Networks (CSCO), Navini (CSCO), Netiverse (CSCO), NetScreen (JNPR), Pipelinks (CSCO), Redback Networks (RBAK), Spatial Wireless (ALU), Springbank (CacheFlow), Versatile (VTSS), Virident (WDC), VitalSigns (ALU), and Yago Systems (Cabletron), among others. He was fired from Sequoia immediately after being sued by his longtime mistress Amber Baptiste for sexual abuse and breach of contract. The lawsuit was dismissed in March 2019 for "Baptiste’s failure to provide documents, undergo medical exams and appear at hearings". In 2019, Goguen founded Two Bear Capital, a venture capital firm based in Whitefish, Montana. Two Bear Capital invested $22 million to Inimmune, a biotech company, in July 2020; this investment was part of the largest Series A investment in Montana history.