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Founder56Current founder
70th percentile
Investor96Current investor
94th percentile
Combined
Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, backing AI and growth deals via MSD Capital
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Experience · 99th percentile
- Has been investing since at least 1998 (founding of MSD Capital), representing approximately 27 years of investing experience.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, which he founded in 1984.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)delltechnologies.com ranks #5,122 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active GP and fund manager of MSD Capital (founded 1998) and MSD Partners (founded 2009), his personal family office and merchant bank.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Has been investing since at least 1998 (founding of MSD Capital), representing approximately 27 years of investing experience.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio tracked on CBInsights and Tracxn.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio acquisition: VMware was acquired by Broadcom Inc. in a major transaction.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio acquisition: Dell Software Group was acquired by Francisco Partners and Elliott Management.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)CBInsights records 9 direct investments by Michael Dell, with the latest in Arena BioWorks in January 2024.
What you likely need
You'd get the most value from small, high-trust rooms where you can quietly expand your direct AI investment activity and connect with the founders who should already know Dell is a strategic backer but don't. The highest-leverage events pair your unique distribution asset — Dell's 50,000-customer enterprise base — with early-stage founders who need exactly that, and put you in front of the private credit and university spinout deal flow your family office is already hunting.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA closed dinner for 8-10 Series A/B AI infrastructure founders (think CoreWeave, Lambda Labs vintage) where Dell Technologies' enterprise distribution and $113.5B customer base is pitched as the strategic value-add that MSD Capital's checkbook alone cannot offer
- positioningA roundtable with top-tier AI and enterprise founders who have raised from a16z, Sequoia, or Bessemer but don't know Dell Technologies Capital is writing checks, designed to publicly sharpen the investment thesis and put DTC on the same mental shortlist as strategic arms from Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft
- tacticalAn intimate dinner with 6-8 family office CIOs and alternative credit managers actively deploying into the private credit dislocation — the exact 'gems' segment MSD Partners flagged in Bloomberg — to share deal flow and co-investment opportunities while traditional lenders are still retrenching
- introsA working lunch with UT Austin's Office of Technology Commercialization leads and 4-5 founders of recent health, life sciences, and AI research spinouts, structured to build a repeatable early-stage deal pipeline directly tied to your $1B+ campus commitment
- positioningA small positioning session with 3-4 top enterprise tech IR advisors and financial journalists who cover Nvidia, HPE, and Super Micro, to sharpen the investor-relations storytelling around Dell's FY26 record revenue and AI server momentum before it gets buried under the broader market narrative
- positioningA co-philanthropist dinner with the program officers and major donors behind Gates Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Bloomberg Philanthropies children's health portfolios, anchored by a preview of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation's structured impact report to attract co-investors into the $6.25B children's initiative
- tacticalA confidential half-day roundtable with governance advisors and founder-CEOs who have navigated long-tenure succession planning — think Jensen Huang's Nvidia board evolution or Larry Ellison's Oracle structure — to help Michael articulate a credible public leadership roadmap that reduces key-person risk in Dell's institutional valuation