# Michael Flynn

> Michael Flynn is the Los Angeles-based co-founder and CTO of Recharge, the subscription-commerce company he started with Oisin O'Connor in 2014 after an earlier career spanning mechanical engineering, sustainable-business events, and event software. The pair tested roughly six products before Recharge caught on, bootstrapped it for more than five years, and later raised $277 million at a $2.1 billion valuation. Flynn remains the technical counterpart in a partnership that grew from a Santa Monica barbecue conversation into a platform serving more than 20,000 businesses worldwide.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at Recharge
- **Organizations:** Recharge, Sponsumo, Opportunity Green
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Incubator program, Founder Institute
- **Known for:** Co-founded Recharge and helped bootstrap it for more than five years before outside financing., Helped build Recharge from one of roughly six product experiments into a global subscription-commerce platform., Co-authored Recharge's 2021 announcement of $277 million in growth capital at a $2.1 billion valuation.

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Co-founded Opportunity Green, a Los Angeles sustainable-business conference and professional network.
- **2010** — Attended the Founder Institute incubator.
- **2011** — Named to the Empact100, an entrepreneurship recognition presented through the White House's Startup America initiative, the Kauffman Foundation, and Empact.
- **2012** — Founded Sponsumo, software intended to automate event and sponsorship management.
- **2014** — Co-founded Recharge with Oisin O'Connor after the pair built a development agency and tested several software products.
- **2015** — Recharge gained its first customer and began scaling its subscription-commerce product.
- **2020** — After more than five years of bootstrapping, Recharge had accepted its first outside financing and raised a $50 million Series A.
- **2021** — Recharge announced $277 million in growth capital at a $2.1 billion valuation; it reported 15,000 merchants, 20 million subscribers, and more than $3 billion in merchant GMV during the preceding year.
- **2026** — Recharge's official leadership page continues to list Flynn as co-founder and CTO; the company says it serves more than 20,000 businesses and has processed more than $30 billion in transactions.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Recharge and helped bootstrap it for more than five years before outside financing.
- Helped build Recharge from one of roughly six product experiments into a global subscription-commerce platform.
- Co-authored Recharge's 2021 announcement of $277 million in growth capital at a $2.1 billion valuation.
- Led the technical side of a platform that Recharge says has processed more than $30 billion in transactions and serves more than 20,000 businesses.
- Co-founded Opportunity Green and later built Sponsumo before entering subscription commerce.
- Received Empact100 recognition in 2011.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Recharge's current official leadership page lists Michael Flynn as co-founder and CTO.
- **2026-01** — Recharge's updated company materials say the platform serves more than 20,000 businesses, draws on data from more than 100 million shoppers, and has processed more than $30 billion in transactions.
- **2023-06** — Flynn appeared in a BlueGrid client interview discussing subscription complexity, scaling merchant revenue, and what made him proud of the Recharge team.
- **2021-05** — Recharge announced $277 million in growth capital from Summit Partners, ICONIQ Growth, and Bain Capital Ventures at a $2.1 billion valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://getrecharge.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerflynn/

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Last updated: 2026-09-27