Jonathan Mi

Jonathan Mi is a San Francisco Bay Area investor whose career spans investment banking, private equity, venture/growth equity, and climate-focused family-office investing. He earned bachelor's degrees from the University of California, Berkeley — in Economics and in Molecular & Cell Biology/Biochemistry (roughly 1999–2003) — where he was named a Chancellor's Scholar. He began his career at Merrill Lynch, executing global technology M&A transactions and advising high-tech companies.

He subsequently joined Gryphon Investors, a middle-market private equity firm in San Francisco (reported at roughly $2.6B+ AUM during his tenure, since grown substantially). There he helped build out the firm's healthcare investment strategy and worked on business-services and education-sector buyouts and acquisitions.

Mi then became a Principal Partner at Brightpath Capital Partners, LP (domain bcplp.com) — an impact-oriented venture capital / growth-equity firm focused on cleantech and food/agriculture opportunities with social impact. There he was responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, execution, and portfolio monitoring, concentrating on mid-venture and growth-equity investments across food, agriculture, cleantech, and resource efficiency. Alongside that role he has been an active angel investor and a mentor/advisor to accelerators including Food System 6 and ICA Fund Good Jobs.

More recently, Mi served as Managing Director and Head of Americas Investments for CREO (the CREO Syndicate), a community of large asset owners and family offices committed to climate-solutions investing — a network he has described as encompassing 200+ family offices and $800B+ in AUM, whose members have collectively deployed more than $50B into climate and sustainability investments. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Institute of Marin. (Note: Brightpath Capital Partners is reported to have wound down, and CREO's current public org chart no longer lists him, so his day-to-day affiliation may have changed since these listings.)

• Invests at the intersection of food/agriculture and climate/sustainability, seeking ventures with both financial return and social/environmental impact.
• In his own words, he focuses on *"mid-venture and growth equity investments across food, agriculture, cleantech, and resource efficiency."*
• As an angel, he backs early-stage companies in healthy food/foodtech, sustainable & regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, resource efficiency, smart buildings, and health & wellness.
• Runs a Wefunder co-invest syndicate (wefunder.com/jonathanmi), letting others follow and invest alongside his deals from ~$100 — signaling openness to syndicated, community-style early-stage backing.
• Values founders working on measurable sustainability outcomes; his advisory ties to impact accelerators (Food System 6, ICA Fund Good Jobs) reflect a preference for mission-aligned, systems-level ventures.