Mark Lockareff

Chairman, Investment Committee

2021 - Current

PORTAL is changing venture capital with a global community of individual investors helping world-class and purpose-driven entrepreneurs build disruptive and scalable tech startups that improve the human experience.

Advisor

2023

Popular AI virtual stylist app disrupting the $7.1B image consultancy market, helping people to unlock their personal style, shop for clothes that suit them and their wardrobes, organize their outfits, and declutter their wardrobes.

Co-Founder & Managing Director

2014

CEO coach, mentor and trusted thought partner to CEO's of high growth technology companies. I leverage my deep start-up, CEO and operating experience to help companies: establish a strategic plan and execute in a timely fashion; define a clear product roadmap; optimize competitive positioning and market segmentation; improve the revenue engine and sales pipeline; stay ahead of growth; build strategic partnerships; fundraise; hire and retain a great team; create and maintain a great culture; ensure strategic alignment across an organization; conduct effective board meetings; and generate a strong ROI for investors.

Venture Partner & Investment Committee Member

2014

Black River Ventures is a pan European/US venture capital fund focused on mid-stage investments in the IoT, Fintech, SaaS, Analytics and E-commerce sectors. Provide guidance on portfolio construction and investment selection. Investments include Coursera and Marqeta.

Investor and Advisor

2014

Angel investor and adviser to this revolutionary company disrupting numerous markets in the energy and materials sector. Lyten is an advanced materials company that developed Lyten 3D Graphene®, a patented library of decarbonization supermaterials that has enabled breakthroughs in energy storage, composite systems, and chemical & passive sensors.

Chief Strategy Officer

2022 - 2023

Totango is the leading SaaS customer success platform. Its product led growth (PLG) offering enables small, medium and large enterprise companies to align around their customers driving increased loyalty, lifetime value, and net revenue retention. As CSO, I led the corporate and business development efforts at Totango, driving inorganic growth.

Chief Administrative Officer

2020 - 2022

As CAO, I led the Finance, HR, Legal, and Corporate & Business Development teams. Led the Series D fundraising process resulting in a $100M investment with Great Hill Partners.

Strategic Adviser

2019 - 2020

Strategic adviser to CEO.

Advisory Board Member

2012 - 2022

Intelligent software and processes for private flight operations.

Member

2014 - 2020

Advisory Board Member

2010 - 2015

RiskVision develops comprehensive risk intelligence solutions for the enterprise.

Interim CEO

2009 - 2009

Advisory Board Member

2013 - 2015

Interim Chairman & CEO

2013 - 2013

Global leader in Software-Defined Storage.