Michael Polansky

About

Michael Polansky (born September 26, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is engaged to Lady Gaga and has co-written various songs with her.

Polansky was born in the U.S. state of Minnesota. His father, Steven Polansky, is a writer of Jewish heritage.
He studied applied mathematics and computer science at Harvard University. He enrolled in 2002 and graduated in 2006.

Polansky is founder or co-founder of the companies Avos Capital Management, Hawktail, and Outer Biosciences. He is a board member of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Lady Gaga’s cosmetics brand Haus Labs. Polansky is the executive director of the Parker Foundation, which he co-founded with Sean Parker in 2015. He has also been the chief operating officer of Airtime, which was founded by Parker and Shawn Fanning in 2011. Polansky has been involved in other projects by Parker.
Polansky was a co-executive producer of Lady Gaga’s 2024 soundtrack album Harlequin and co-wrote and reworked the traditional songs “Get Happy”, “Good Morning”, “If My Friends Could See Me Now”, and “Oh, When the Saints”. He also has writing and production credits on Lady…