Mike Harden

Mike Harden is an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur with more than 20 years in the investment industry. He is founder and partner at Big Rock Partners, LLC, a San Francisco-based family office dedicated to serving the cannabis, hospitality and wellness communities in California and beyond. Big Rock invests, consults, and supports businesses, non-profits, and individuals who are driving positive change in these industries. Big Rock has invested in leading and up-and-coming hospitality and cannabis businesses, including Henry’s Original, Vertosa, Kikoko Tea, Tacolicious, Souvla, ChefsFeed, Garden Society to name a few. Mike has served on numerous boards from hospitality and cannabis to tech and biotech. He’s spoken at major financial conferences such as Milken Institute's Global Conference to keynoting at cannabis conferences such as New West Summit. Prior to joining Big Rock full time in 2020, Harden was founder and partner at ARTIS Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital company specializing in financing early- to late-stage investments in dynamic companies they can support throughout the company’s entire lifecycle.