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Mark Goldenson
Founder of VentureKit
Mountain View, California
Overview
Mark Goldenson is a seasoned entrepreneur and startup investor based in Mountain View, California. With a background that includes founding Breakthrough and serving as Founder in Residence at Google, he has a wealth of experience in product management, entrepreneurship, and strategic planning, making significant contributions to various startups and advising companies like Regrello and Fluence.
Notable for his roles at Google and Breakthrough, Mark Goldenson's career highlights include founding VentureKit and advising companies like HistoWiz and Motivo, showcasing his expertise in product management, entrepreneurship, and strategic partnerships within the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Investor & Advisor
2021 - Current
Regrello is a no-code work platform for cross-company collaboration in supply chain workflows. Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg Beta, Sherpalo, and Dell.
Regrello is a network of manufacturing companies for supplier collaboration and automation of manufacturing and supply chain processes.
Raised $25,200,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Position Ventures and Tiger Global Management.
Advisor
2023
Fluence is a leading continuing education organization in psychedelic therapy.
Founder
2017
VentureKit publishes free guides to help entrepreneurs get things done.
Group Product Manager
2022 - 2024
Leading Cloud AI's efforts in large language model (LLM) extensions (a.k.a. plugins), which enhance LLMs with real-time data and real-world actions to build AI agents. My team's scope includes function calling, coding models, and retrieval-augmented generation. When humanity creates Jarvis-like AI agents that help us run our personal and professional lives, extensions will be a major reason. :)
Senior Product Manager
2021 - 2022
Led an ads measurement suite of five products in Google Ads that generated $XB in annual revenue. - Managed a team of five PMs - Achieved 90% of 2022 OKRs - Co-managed $X00M operating budget - Promoted two reports and converted four reports to the PM ladder - Received 92% people management rating - Received four peer/spot bonuses
Founder in Residence
2019 - 2021
Joined Google Research's AI incubator part-time to research new AI-powered products to build. I eventually decided to build an AI-powered contract analyzer called Lincoln. The vision was to create a free contract analyzer that could classify any contract, extract and benchmark key values, assess risks, and organize a contract portfolio. It aimed to use Google's world-class AI expertise to offer free contract guidance to billions of people. Joined Google's startup incubator, Area 120, full-time in March 2020 to lead a team that built a proof of concept that could classify a few types of contracts and extract key clauses and entities. Our work contributed to the launch of Cloud's Contract DocAI product: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contract-doc-ai.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Advisor
2018 - 2022
HistoWiz (YC W16) is the largest cloud histology service. A researcher can send HistoWiz any tissue sample to be stained, sliced, scanned, stored, and delivered as a digital slide within three days. They take the grunt work out of histology to help researchers focus on the intellectual work that saves lives.
HistoWiz provides automated histopathology for biomedical researchers.
Raised $36,765,000.00 from Vivo Capital, Asahi Kasei and venBio Partners.
Advisor
2019 - 2021
Motivo is the largest platform for therapist telesupervision. It connects pre-licensed therapists with clinical supervisors through secure video conference. They help aspiring therapists get the supervision required to earn their license, grow their skills, and launch their career. Learn more in this two-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7b3fWWMYpk.
Motivo connects mental health organizations with virtual clinical supervisors and licensed providers to fill mental health workforce gaps.
Raised $16,200,000.00 from Cox Enterprises, What If Ventures, SteelSky Ventures and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
Network Leader
2018 - 2019
Village Global is a $100M seed-stage fund backed by exceptional founders, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Diane Greene, Reid Hoffman, and Mike Bloomberg. I advised and could make investments through the fund.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2017 - 2017
I mentored 500 Startups companies and talked with over 100 founders to learn what help they want from an investor beyond funding. My blog for founders, VentureKit, is built on this research.
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
Startup Research
2014 - 2017
Deeply researched several startup ideas to potentially launch. Interviewed over 100 industry professionals and potential customers. Ideas included: - A platform for fractional home ownership. Created an executive summary and a detailed financial analysis indicating that buying and living in a home as a group could be cheaper than renting in many areas. - A live, online food network (Twitch for food). Created an executive summary and financial projections of usage, costs, revenue, and headcount. - A marketplace to hire expert interviewers. Created an executive summary and financial projections. Though each of these ideas has potential, I decided that they had significant enough risks to not pursue for now.
Founder & CEO
2009 - 2014
Breakthrough was the largest online therapy service, acquired by MDLIVE. We offered live, video-based care with over 1,000 mental health providers and insurance coverage from over 30 insurers, including Blue Shield, Aetna, and Magellan, which covered over 10M people. I built the team to over twenty employees and raised $6M in funding from leading investors. Our seed investors earned a 16x return.