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Mark Kvamme

Founder of The O.H.I.O. Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Overview 

Mark Kvamme is the Co-Founder and CEO of The O.H.I.O. Fund based in Columbus, Ohio, with a background in start-ups, venture capital, and strategic partnerships. Notable highlights include founding Drive Capital and serving as Partner Emeritus, as well as investing in successful companies like Udacity and FarmLogs across various funding rounds.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2024 - Current

  • Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus

    2012

    Drive Capital invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest. We are looking for innovative entrepreneurs addressing big market opportunities. Our goal is to partner with entrepreneurs that have audacious goals and strive to build large sustainable companies.

Drive Capital is a private investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs in building long-term, sustainable businesses.

  • Board Member

    2019

    Physna, short for “Physical DNA”, is a revolutionary technology that compares and analyzes 3D models through shape search, quality control and more in various industries. Physna is most commonly used in engineering and CAD design, manufacturing, aerospace, defense and diverse types of inspection automation.

Physna is a geometric deep-learning and 3D search company that searches, compares, and analyzes 3D models.

Raised $85,000,000.00 from Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital, Next Play Ventures and Drive Capital.

  • Board Member

    2017

    Clinc's underlying technology is based on state-of-the-art machine learning and deep neural networks (DNN)-as-a-service developed by computer science professors at the University of Michigan

  • Board Member

    2015

    Welcome to a better way to experience Total Joint Replacement. We’ve reimagined every step of the process, all centered around you. Because we’re out to create a new movement in healthcare.

  • Board Member

    2014

    Aver's data management platform ingests fragmented fee for service information, transforms and modernizes it for payment reform. We enrich legacy data sets by generating patient and episode centric data.

Enlace Health delivers the end-to-end solution that solves the infrastructure challenges driving today’s unsustainable healthcare system.

Raised $111,070,000.00 from Cox Enterprises.

  • Board Member

    2014 - 2024

    Our mission is to bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and we seek to empower our students to advance their education and careers. Education is no longer a one-time event but a lifelong experience. Education should be less passive listening (no long lectures) and more active doing. Education should empower students to succeed not just in school but in life.

  • Chairman of the Board

    2007 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2022

    Farmlogs mission is to invent the future of farming Our technology makes farming more efficient and more profitable as demand for food production continues to grow.

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2018

    The open road. That’s what it’s all about. Driving down long stretches of asphalt, pulling over at a local diner for some grub, and discovering the most incredible roadside wonders.

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