Michael Dempsey (@mhdempsey) — Twitter Score 291 out of 1000

Michael Dempsey is a Managing Partner at Compound who invests in frontier technologies including crypto, robotics, machine learning, and biology with a research-centric, thesis-driven approach. Michael Dempsey's Twitter Score is 291 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,257 (top 0.5%) among 389,201 tracked accounts.

Michael Dempsey leads investing at Compound, a firm that has been investing in crypto since 2016 and has backed early-stage protocols and projects including The Graph, Arbitrum, Dapper Labs, Livepeer, and Kadena, among others. Compound also invested in the seed round of Offchain Labs, the team behind Arbitrum, as Dempsey disclosed in published research. He has also co-founded an AI animation studio and previously helped build the data and research team at CB Insights, where he joined as one of the first fifteen employees and helped develop its technology newsletter.

Michael Dempsey previously worked at Rothenberg Ventures, where he focused on seed-stage frontier technology investments, and formerly at Crane Partners. He is an active writer on crypto topics, having authored research covering DeFi, governance, NFTs, token curves, stablecoins, and blockspace across markets and investing themes. Michael Dempsey has been mentioned by 154 accounts, with 427 total mentions. Michael Dempsey's account has published 25,230 posts.

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