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The Changing Venture Landscape
Talks about venture capital, technology acceleration and post-pandemic changes
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Mark Suster
General Partner at Upfront Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Mark Suster is a Partner at Upfront Ventures in Los Angeles, known for his successful investments in notable companies like GumGum and Nanit. With a background in entrepreneurship and venture capital, he has held key roles at salesforce.com and founded successful startups like Koral, showcasing a strong track record in the tech industry.
Suster's career highlights include founding and leading successful startups like Koral, as well as making strategic investments in a diverse range of companies at various stages, demonstrating his expertise in venture capital and entrepreneurship.
Work Experience
General Partner
2007 - Current
Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm that backed both of my previous start-ups. I had been working with the partners for 8 years prior to joining as a General Partner. I joined "the dark side" to to help fund like-minded entrepreneurs.
Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Vice President
2007 - 2007
I joined salesforce.com when the company where I was founder and CEO, Koral, was acquired. I stayed through a transition period to ensure that the product was ready for a successful market launch and the entire engineering team of Koral remains at salesforce.com.
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Founder & CEO
2006 - 2007
I founded Koral along with my former colleagues from BuildOnline. We built the product over a 2 year period and then officially launched our new product, Koral, at DEMOFall 2006. It was a smashing success and received a lot of industry accolades. We were acquired in March 2007 by salesforce.com.
Founder & CEO
1999 - 2006
Senior Manager, Strategy Consulting
1991 - 1999
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.
Corporate Finance
1989 - 1991
First Interstate BancSystem is a finance service firm.
Education
Investments
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