Capital, policy and technology, from the same seat.
Michael Benezra is Partner, North America at Crewstone International, a globally active private equity firm, where he focuses on investments across consumer, financial services, life sciences and commercial real estate.
He is also CEO and co-founder of Signal87 AI, which he co-founded with Michael Chavira. He leads product design and strategy for citation-backed document research systems serving legal, legislative, municipal and enterprise teams. The platform helps users research and compare documents, with answers linked to their sources.
His work spans legal AI strategy, enterprise document memory, AI governance and municipal technology. He also serves on the advisory board of the Alliance for American Leadership.
Before moving into investing, he served as Israel's Consul for Innovation & Economic Affairs in New England, working with governors, state economic development teams and federal officials on trade and investment. He went on to co-found the GK Fund, a Boston nonprofit closing the racial wealth gap in startup funding. He holds a master's degree in government from Harvard University.