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Mark Augenstern

Executive - Strategic Acceleration Team at Polaris Growth Fund

Salt Lake City, Utah

Overview

Work Experience

  • Operating Executive - Strategic Acceleration Team

    2022 - Current

    PGF strives to be a collaborative investment partner to companies with these common characteristics: 1) founder-owned / bootstrapped, 2) software / tech-enabled services, 3) $5M - $25M in revenue, 4) profitable growth, 5) vertical or category focus, 6) customer segment / product / geographic expansion opportunities, 7) shareholders seeking partial or full liquidity.

  • Director of Strategic Finance

    2017 - 2020

    Cityworks was acquired by Trimble in October 2019. Cityworks provides a web-based asset, permitting, and land management platform built on top of Esri's ArcGIS for local government, utility, airport, and other distributed infrastructure applications.

  • Associate - Tech Private Equity

    2014 - 2017

    Polaris Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco managing $4.3B and investing in tech and healthcare companies out of its eighth fund. Within technology, Polaris primarily focuses on B2B software, internet, and tech-enabled services businesses.

  • Analyst - Tech M&A Advisory

    2012 - 2014

    Harris Williams is an investment bank that provides sell-side M&A advisory services for transactions between $50M and $1B in enterprise value.

  • Intern - Equity Research

    2011 - 2011

    Eaton Vance is a publicly traded investment management firm with over $400B in AUM.

  • Intern - Operations

    2010 - 2010

Education

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