Mark Bailey
Founder of B5 Capital
Mark Bailey
Founder of B5 Capital
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2018 - Current
B5 Capital is a Silicon Valley based single family office that invests in early stage technology companies.
Founder & Partner
2005
DFJ Growth invests in private growth stage technology companies that are scaling rapidly and poised for market leadership. Our past and present companies include AdMob (GOOG), Anaplan (PLAN), AnyVision, Avant, Box (BOX), Cylance (BB), DataRobot, DataStax, Formlabs, Foursquare, Good Technology (BB), Immuta, Mapbox, Outreach, Ring (AMZN), Silver Spring Networks (SSNI), SimpliVity (HPE), SolarCity (SCTY), SpaceX, Sumo Logic, Tesla (TSLA), Tumblr (YHOO), TrialPay (Visa), Tremor (TRMR), Twitter (TWTR), Yammer (MSFT) and Yellowbrick.
Venture Partner
2002 - 2006
Investing in growth stage global high technology companies. This fund's portfolio included investments in Baidu (BIDU) and Skype (bought by eBay).
SVP Corporate Development
2004 - 2004
Founder and CEO
1999 - 2002
Co-founded this software company and served as full-time CEO November 1999 through June 2002. Chairman 1997-2012.
VP Business Development
1998 - 1999
Strategy and M&A
General Partner
1997 - 1998
High technology investing
SVP Business Development
1989 - 1997
Strategy and M&A
Associate
1985 - 1989
Early stage high technology investing
Regional Sales Engineer
1981 - 1983
Sales support and account strategy
Education
Graduate work
2021 - 2021
MBA
1983 - 1985
BSE
1977 - 1981
Investments
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