Mark Grovic

General Partner and Founder

2001 - Current

Mark founded New Markets Venture Partners and serves or has served on the Board of Directors for American Prison Data Systems, AppAcademy, Concentric Education, Credly (sold to NYSE: PSO), Fishtree (sold to Follett), Galvanize (sold to NYSE: LRN), Graduation Alliance (sold to KKR), Think Through Learning (sold to Imagine Learning/Weld North), MediaSolv (sold to NASDAQ: TASR), Lightningcast (sold to NYSE: TWX), Moodlerooms (sold to Blackboard), Pairin and Workspace. Mark also serves or has served as a board observer for Aldagen (sold to NASDAQ: CMXI), American Honors College (sold to Wellspring International), Andera (sold to NASDAQ: EPAY), Appfluent (sold to NASDAQ: ATTU), BioSET (sold to Ferring Pharmaceuticals), Mantra Health, Mashable (sold to Ziff Davis), Noodle, Overture Technologies (sold to CompuGain), Paratek Microwave (sold to NASDAQ: RIMM), Questar Assessment (sold to ETS), and Vision Chain (sold to NASDAQ: EOPN). Mark also co-founded LifeJourney, an online educational company that allows students to test drive real life careers in specific corporations.

Member of the Board

2019

Member of diversity committee and founder of multi fund diversity fellowship.

Youth Employment Private Sector Advisory Council

2019

Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)

Professor of Practice and Senior Advisor to the President

2002 - 2021

Award winning professor of private equity, ethics and social entrepreneurship. Led University efforts in corporate development, entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. Built innovative 2 course entrepreneurship MOOC in EdX.

Investment Committee Member

2014 - 2019

University of VA Curry School of Education accelerator and investment fund

Professor of International Business

2000 - 2002

Received "Teacher of the Year" Award

Portfolio Manager

1999 - 2001

Expanded number of country funds from 4 to 12 and led turn around of Peruvian private equity fund.

Managing Director

1997 - 1999

Principal, Private Equity

1995 - 1997

Portfolio Manager, Private Equity

1993 - 1995