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
Founder Interview: Amanda Szabo, founder and CEO, ResortPass
Building a successful business is hardly as fun as a day at the pool, though for Amanda Szabo, that’s how hers got started. The founder and CEO of Santa Monica’s...
Founder Interview: Guillermo Gette, co-founder and CEO, Workast
Babies have played a pivotal role in the life and career of Workast co-founder and CEO Guillermo Gette. It was his parents’ baby-product store back home in Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
Founder Interview: Daniel Kim & Jay Lee, AuditBoard
If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos,...
Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft
Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...
Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate
Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...
Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark
If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...