Cliff Bersani
Investor
Based in New York City, Cliff invests in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage companies across the Midwest and East Coast.
Prior to joining Mucker, Cliff worked on growth at Xiaomi, where he was an early member of the team tasked with business expansion outside of China. Over his three years at the company, Cliff drove hundreds of millions of dollars in sales through consumer-facing marketing and enterprise partnerships. During his time at the company, Xiaomi grew to be the third largest smartphone brand globally after Samsung and Apple.
Cliff grew up in Hong Kong and speaks near-native Mandarin. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Princeton University and an MBA from Chicago Booth. During his time at Booth, Cliff completed internships at Osage Venture Partners in Philadelphia and Origin Ventures in Chicago.
Cliff can be reached at cliff at mucker dot com.
Articles by Cliff Bersani
The LinkedIn Playbook: How Startup Founders Can Stand Out & Scale
This LinkedIn Playbook is based on insights from a recent one-time Mucker Growth Session webinar featuring LinkedIn growth experts Alec Paul (Founder of SalesBrand) and Kyle Williams (Founder of Brickstack)....
DeepSeek vs OpenAI: Comparison Breakdown and What It Means For Your Tech Startup With Dan Cleary
In this recent webinar of our Mucker Growth Series, we discussed the evolving AI landscape with Dan Cleary, founder of PromptHub. He provided an in-depth breakdown of DeepSeek vs. OpenAI,...
Building Product Without Knowing Code With Adam New Waterson
In a deep dive into AI-driven product development, Adam New-Waterson, a former CMO turned Chief Product Officer and now solopreneur, shared how non-technical founders can harness the power of AI...
How To Build An Automated Sales Outreach Engine For Startups with ColdIQ
Many B2B startups (and even larger organizations) are unable to be successful with their outbound sales strategy because they take a lazy, “batch-and-blast” approach. In a recent Mucker Growth Series...
Navigating the AI Sales Tools Landscape To Grow Your Startup With Blue Bowen
We had the privilege of hosting, Eugene “Blue” Bowen, Research Principal from G2, one of the leading software marketplaces and review sites that cover a broad range of B2B solutions....
Compensation Benchmarks for Early Stage Startups with Peter Walker
In this Mucker Growth Session, Peter Walker from Carta reviews insights and compensation benchmarks for early stage startups gathered from Carta’s extensive dataset of nearly 50,000 startups. In the evolving...