Mark Watt

General Partner at Kilonova Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview

Mark Watt is the Co-Founder, General Partner, and Chief Compliance Officer at Kilonova Capital in San Francisco, California, specializing in venture capital, corporate development, growth capital, and strategy. With a background in investment banking and private equity, Mark has successfully invested in various startups and emerging markets, focusing on sectors such as space, hardware, games, manufacturing, and robotics. Mark's career highlights include co-founding Kilonova Capital and leading investments in a diverse range of companies, showcasing expertise in financial modeling, IPOs, private placements, and business valuation. His role as a General Partner involves strategic decision-making, due diligence, and fostering growth in companies across sectors like IoT, consumer health, e-commerce, and FinTech.

Work Experience

Kilonova Capital

Co-Founder, General Partner & CCO
2019 - Current
Kilonova Capital (“KC”) is a value-oriented, growth capital provider, focused on delivering structured capital solutions to later stage deep technology companies. We seek to invest between $25-150 million in proven, at scale companies which combine deep technological moats with proven business models and high value customers. We seek to be patient last money in investors able to support a company’s drive towards a liquidity event. We also consider bespoke intellectual property transactions, such as buying patent portfolios, which can be monetized through licensing strategies and/or litigation, or to provide balance sheet liquidity. Our investment team has decades of institutional investment and entrepreneurial experience, with myriad examples of building technology companies to scale. KC supplements this empathetic approach with over 35 operating partners who have rich technology and SME expertise. KC is headquartered in San Francisco with investment professionals in California, New York, London & Paris.

Kilonova Capital ("KC") is a San Francisco based asset manager that invests in special situation financings and buyouts of proven.

kilonovacap.com

MJW Holdings

Partner
2016
Incubator, advisory and seed investment platform. Extensive experience in frontier technology (rocket launch, space craft, satellite, UAV, Drones & data analysis), internet (e-commerce, e-retail, online EDU, social networks and digital media) & fin-tech. Early investor in leading social gaming company acquired by Disney. Co-founded and incubated premium baby goods and infant formula e-commerce company. Early investor in leading cloud based, integrated knowledge platform for global EDU market. Co-founded and incubated online, high-risk merchant payment processing platform.

Aymium

Investor
2024

Aymium produces high-value biocarbon and biohydrogen products.

Raised $260,000,000.00 from Kilonova Capital, Fortress Investment Group, ECP ForeStar, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Japan Green Investment Corporation for Carbon Neutrality.

aymium.com