Michael Kaufman

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Fast facts

Name
Michael Kaufman
Title
Founder
Based in
Los Angeles, CA
Companies
Archstone, VC Beast, BettyJet, FamilyTime Centers
X
@mkaufmanentrep

Bios

Short (50 words)

Michael Kaufman is a technical founder in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Archstone, a fund management platform for emerging venture capitalists, and VC Beast, a venture capital media company.

Medium (100 words)

Michael Kaufman is a Los Angeles based technical founder building a portfolio of companies across venture capital software, healthcare, and energy. He is the founder of Archstone, a fund management platform for emerging venture capitalists, and VC Beast, a venture capital media company. He also co-founded BettyJet, a Florida fuel brokerage, and is a principal at the mental health practice FamilyTime Centers.

Long

Michael Kaufman is a technical founder based in Los Angeles. He builds and operates a portfolio of companies across private capital software, media, healthcare, and energy, designing and shipping each product end to end. He is the founder of Archstone, the operating system for private capital, the infrastructure that runs across venture capital, private equity, real estate, and credit, and of VC Beast, a venture capital media company and family of brands. Together they form an ecosystem for the managers who run private funds. He is the co-founder of BettyJet, a fuel brokerage operating across Florida, and a principal at FamilyTime Centers, a Los Angeles mental health practice he helped grow from a handful of clinicians into a multi-location operation. Kaufman works as a solo, full-stack builder, using modern tooling to design, engineer, and operate products that would traditionally take entire teams. He writes about venture capital, company building, and the rise of leverage-driven solo operators.

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