Mark Achler
Managing Director at MATH Venture Partners & Co
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2014 - Current
Math Venture Partners is an early to growth-stage Venture Capital fund focusing on technical and digital companies.
MATH Venture Partners invests in teams building companies with an unfair advantage in customer acquisition.
Adjunct Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2013
I teach MORS 952-A, Entrepreneurship: Building Innovation, Teams and Cultures.
Board Member
2022
Provider of Clinical Companions for children and their families who are going through Clinical Trials.
Board Member
2018
Virtuous Software provides nonprofit CRM and donor management tools to enhance fundraising efforts.
Raised $155,776,000.00 from Susquehanna Growth Equity.
Board Observer
2014
Mobile App Security
NowSecure provides automated mobile app security testing software that can be integrated into the development (CI/CD) process.
Raised $27,500,000.00 from CIBC Innovation Banking.
Member of the Advisory Board
2016
SVP Strategy, Innovation & New Business
2009 - 2013
Redbox distributes DVD & Blu-Ray movies, Video Games and now Tickets to live events through automated kiosks in partnership with major retail partners such as all the leading grocery chains, Walmart, Walgreen's, CVS, McDonald's and many others. I was part of the Senior Executive Team primarily responsible for launching all things new at the company. My position was a unique blend of both strategic vision and tactical execution with GM and P&L responsibility. The New Business team conceived and built the games division, then helped conceive the Digital movie service in partnership with Verizon, and most recently their latest offering to sell Tickets to live events. In addition, from March through September of 2012 I was the interim SVP of Marketing, Product, and CRM and Analytics in addition to heading up Innovation and New Business.
Redbox offers Blu-ray Disc and video game rentals through its network of self-service kiosks.
Raised $51,450,000.00 from Lionsgate, Ophir Asset Management, Legendary Entertainment, Basil Iwanyk and Screenvision Media.
President
2002 - 2007
Emmi Solutions provides compelling health care information from the point of view of the patient as they prepare to deal with both upcoming surgeries and chronic conditions. Patients are better educated, comply better with instructions, have better outcomes - and can no longer claim they were not adequately informed around the potential risks of their condition.
Founding Partner
1996 - 2002
Kettle Partners was an early-stage technology venture capital fund. The three general partners were all recovering entrepreneurs and believed in rolling up our collective sleeves and leveraging our accumulated operating experience in addition to our capital. While there I was the lead investor in SurePayroll (sold to Paychex) and Novarra (sold to Nokia).
President
1993 - 1996
Kinesoft Development built porting engines that took Sega and Nintendo scrolling action arcade games and were the first people to bring them to the Windows PC platform. We were one of Softbank's first partnerships in the United States in 1995.
Education
BA
1976 - 1980
High School
1972 - 1976