Michael Scheid
Senior Associate
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- Full Name
- Michael Scheid
- Firm
- Level Equity
- Firm Type
- Growth equity and structured capital
- Investment Stage
- Growth equity; structured capital
- Target Company Profile
- Capital-efficient, rapid-growth lower-middle-market software and technology-enabled companies; Level says growth-equity companies typically have $5M+ of recurring revenue, little institutional capital raised to date, and founder/manager-led teams.
- Sector Focus
- B2B software; software and data services; tech-enabled services
- Geographic Focus
- North America and Europe, inferred from Level Equity’s portfolio
- Location
- New York, NY
Background
I could not verify a current public Level Equity bio, LinkedIn profile, headshot, or current title for Michael Scheid. Level Equity’s current team-member sitemap, last modified June 23, 2026, does not list a Michael Scheid page, and the likely URL `https://www.levelequity.com/team-member/michael-scheid/` returns a 404 page. The stub title of “Senior Associate” and the email `[hidden]` therefore remain unverified from public sources and are omitted as factual profile fields.
The verifiable firm context is Level Equity, a New York-headquartered investment firm founded in 2009 by Ben Levin, George McCulloch, and Sarah Sommer. The firm says it was created to support rapid-growth, capital-efficient software and technology-enabled businesses in the lower middle market.
Level Equity has built two investment strategies: Growth Equity and Structured Capital. Its growth-equity strategy includes minority growth capital, majority growth equity, and recapitalizations; its structured-capital strategy provides flexible credit and structured equity alternatives. The firm reports more than 125 investments and more than 60 liquidity events since inception.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Level Equity focuses on “capital-efficient growth technology companies” and says it backs founders in “rapid growth, technology-enabled software companies.”
- Growth-equity targets are typically founder- or manager-led companies with $5M+ in recurring revenue and limited prior institutional capital.
- The firm invests across minority growth capital, majority growth equity, recapitalizations, and structured capital.
- Sector focus is lower-middle-market B2B software, software and data services, and tech-enabled services.
- Level emphasizes a hands-on but founder-oriented model through its investment team and NextLevel Operations, helping portfolio companies build a Strategic Value Plan around 3-5 key enterprise-value drivers.
- The approach is operationally focused: market expansion, operational efficiency, GTM, finance and operations, M&A sourcing, and revenue operations are recurring themes on the firm site.
Notable Investments
- TeamDynamix: Cloud-based enterprise IT automation platform for IT service management, project portfolio management, and iPaaS; Level lists it as a Software & Data Services investment.
- CloudCheckr: SaaS platform for governance, spend management, security, and performance monitoring across public cloud environments.
- HVR Software: Real-time data replication and integration software; Level’s page shows Fivetran branding on the investment page, indicating the outcome/association.
- Vacasa: Technology-enabled vacation-rental marketing and property-management platform.
- Instaclustr: Managed open-source data-platform company; cited in Level’s 2018 investment history.
- TeamDynamix reinvestment: Level’s history says it reinvested in TeamDynamix in 2022.
- OnPhase, Upshop, and cplace: Level says these were 2024 new equity investments.
- Legato, Tenovos, FileCloud, Satsifi, and Ninth Wave: Level says these were 2024 structured-capital investments.
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