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.
Polaris Growth Fund is an affiliate fund of Polaris Partners.
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.
Polaris Partners is an investment firm that invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies.
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
J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .
Education
B.A.
2008 - 2012