Mark Loch
Managing Director at Highland Ventures Group
Mark Loch
Managing Director at Highland Ventures Group
Boulder, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Director
2013 - Current
Highland Ventures Group emphasizes providing advisory services to identify, fund, and accelerate the development and growth of portfolio companies that possess innovative technology and scalable business models. The HVG approach supports achieving outstanding financial results while building the enterprise’s ability to rapidly achieve its impact potential. Highland Ventures Group has made more than 20 direct investments via Ubuntu Holdings, LLC particularly focused on the energy and water sectors, and also supports the development of complementary interest at Blackhorn Ventures and Factor[e].
Operating Partner; Director Strategy and Insights
2016
Blackhorn Ventures invests in companies deploying new technologies to make the energy, transportation, and built environment industries more efficient, softening our impact on natural resources and driving sustainable growth and financial margins for decades to come. As an Operating Partner, Mark leads development of the strategy and insights that form Blackhorn's investment thesis, sources new investment opportunities, provides board and advisory support to portfolio companies, cultivates strategic partnerships, and extends Blackhorn’s operating model.
Chairman Of The Board
2017
Factor[e] Ventures funds, de-risks, and grows startups that address access to energy, mobility, agriculture, and sanitation challenges in the developing world. Mark supports development of the strategic direction and effective governance for Factor[e]’s work and advises the team on ways to improve their reach and impact. Mark also sits on Factor[e]'s Investment Committee.
Senior Advisor and Director in Residence
2014
Redstone helps philanthropies, non-profits, and governments solve the world's most urgent social problems. As a Senior Advisor and Director in Residence, Mark assists Redstone and its clients on growth, impact investing, and organizational effectiveness and design opportunities, in particular in the climate response, environment, and conservation space.
Board Member
2020
Buzz Solutions is committed to safeguarding the World's Energy Infrastructure. Buzz's novel SaaS technology leverages AI/ML to generate the highest accuracy identification of potential faults, and develops actionable insights and predictive analytics for infrastructure inspections.
Board Member
2019
Agerpoint is an industry leader in Precision Agriculture using remote sensing technologies to capture precise data and clear analytics that offer functional insights to develop and maintain sustainable agricultural practices.
Board Member
2019
Rhythmos allows its partners to plan, manage, and optimize value of all decarbonizing assets within one Algorithmic Optimization System
Board Observer
2017
Twelve‘s technology economically captures and converts carbon dioxide into value-added chemicals and fuel using an electrochemical process. Opus-12’s drop-in component can be attached to any emissions source to reduce carbon footprint and create a revenue stream for organizations from their waste emissions.
Board Observer
2016
Clean Chemistry’s reactive oxygen species technology improves water quality in contaminated waste streams to customer specification without overtreatment. Clean Chemistry efficiently, economically, and safely enables fluids-solids separations, oil-water separations, water treatment and contaminant removal.
Board Member
2013
SmartSenseCom provides an innovative, high fidelity sensor system for detection, measurement and enabling critical control systems. The core technology can be applied to a wide range of applications, starting with Acoustic and Vibration sensing and Electric Power Monitoring and Control.