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Mark Achler

Managing Director at MATH Venture Partners & Co-author of Exit Right

Chicago, Illinois

Investor
VC

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
New Business Development
Retail
Product Development
Mergers
Strategic Planning
Social Media
Negotiation
Entrepreneurship
Mobile Devices
Mergers & Acquisitions
Customer Service
Innovation Management
Management
Product Management
Start-ups
Contract Negotiation
Social Networking
Advertising
Market Research

Education

  • BA

    Purdue University

    (1976 - 1980)

  • High School

    Homewood Flossmoor High School

    (1972 - 1976)

Investments

Apervita

Series A

Total Funding: $57M

NowSecure

Series A

Total Funding: $28M

rMark Bio

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Packback

Series B

Total Funding: $10M

Tulip Retail

Series A

Total Funding: $79M

ThinkCERCA

Series A

Total Funding: $27M

Novarra

Series B

Total Funding: $31M

Work Experience

MATH Venture Partners

2014

  • Managing Director

    2014

    Math Venture Partners is an early to growth-stage Venture Capital fund focusing on technical and digital companies.

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

2013

  • Adjunct Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    2013

    I teach MORS 952-A, Entrepreneurship: Building Innovation, Teams and Cultures.

Empath Labs

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

    Provider of Clinical Companions for children and their families who are going through Clinical Trials.

Virtuous

2018

  • Board Member

    2018

NowSecure (formerly viaForensics)

2014

  • Board Observer

    2014

    Mobile App Security

Advanced Clinical

2016

  • Member of the Advisory Board

    2016

Redbox

2009 - 2013

  • SVP Strategy, Innovation & New Business

    2009 - 2013

    Redbox distributes DVD & Blu-Ray movies, Video Games and now Tickets to live events through automated kiosks in partnership with major retail partners such as all the leading grocery chains, Walmart, Walgreen's, CVS, McDonald's and many others. I was part of the Senior Executive Team primarily responsible for launching all things new at the company. My position was a unique blend of both strategic vision and tactical execution with GM and P&L responsibility. The New Business team conceived and built the games division, then helped conceive the Digital movie service in partnership with Verizon, and most recently their latest offering to sell Tickets to live events. In addition, from March through September of 2012 I was the interim SVP of Marketing, Product, and CRM and Analytics in addition to heading up Innovation and New Business.

Emmi Solutions

2002 - 2007

  • President

    2002 - 2007

    Emmi Solutions provides compelling health care information from the point of view of the patient as they prepare to deal with both upcoming surgeries and chronic conditions. Patients are better educated, comply better with instructions, have better outcomes - and can no longer claim they were not adequately informed around the potential risks of their condition.

Kettle Partners

1996 - 2002

  • Founding Partner

    1996 - 2002

    Kettle Partners was an early-stage technology venture capital fund. The three general partners were all recovering entrepreneurs and believed in rolling up our collective sleeves and leveraging our accumulated operating experience in addition to our capital. While there I was the lead investor in SurePayroll (sold to Paychex) and Novarra (sold to Nokia).

Kinesoft Development

1993 - 1996

  • President

    1993 - 1996

    Kinesoft Development built porting engines that took Sega and Nintendo scrolling action arcade games and were the first people to bring them to the Windows PC platform. We were one of Softbank's first partnerships in the United States in 1995.