Mark Friday
Managing Director at Cathexis Ventures
Greater Houston
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2018 - Current
www.cathexisventures.com Early stage investments for scalable startups. Focused on finding great founders, fast builders, and product-market-fit.
Cathexis Ventures is the venture arm of Cathexis Holdings that focuses on Seed-stage companies.
Associate
2018 - 2021
www.cathexis.com Cathexis is a private investment firm managing assets in energy, real estate, and various other sectors. Built on a foundation of multi-generational family assets, Cathexis practices a value investment philosophy with a long-term time horizon. Cathexis’s flexible capital and opportunistic approach lead to investments across a broad range of industries, geographies, and deal structures, in both private and public markets.
Cathexis operates as a holding company for acquisition companies investing in venture capital, real estate, energy, and operating companies.
Tech Project Manager
2017 - 2018
Acquired previous company. Machine vision for smart cities. IoT networks.
Tech Project Manager
2010 - 2017
Electrical engineering project management for wireless networks, machine vision, security networks, smart cities, and control systems.
Embedded MEMS Sensors in Composite Materials
2008 - 2010
MEMS sensors embedded in composite materials for the F-35 and other aircraft. MEMS sensors automatically detect structural health defects, automating maintenance decisions.
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company specialized in advanced technology systems, products and services.
Raised $62,016,440.00 from Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Air Force, NYSERDA and NYSERDA.
Engineering Consultant - Power Generation for Sensors
2008 - 2008
Permanent magnet alternator to power sensor package on Apache Helicopter rotor system.