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Mark Bailey

DFJ Growth | B5 Capital

Los Altos, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $6,000,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
Venture Capital
Mobile Devices
Business Development
Investments
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sales Operations
Corporate Development
Strategy
Sales
Portfolio Management
Leadership
Mergers
SaaS
Management
Business Strategy
Due Diligence
Strategic Partnerships
Product Management
Strategic Planning

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder and CEO

    2018

    B5 Capital is a Silicon Valley based single family office that invests in early stage technology companies.

  • Founder & Partner

    2005

    DFJ Growth invests in private growth stage technology companies that are scaling rapidly and poised for market leadership. Our past and present companies include AdMob (GOOG), Anaplan (PLAN), AnyVision, Avant, Box (BOX), Cylance (BB), DataRobot, DataStax, Formlabs, Foursquare, Good Technology (BB), Immuta, Mapbox, Outreach, Ring (AMZN), Silver Spring Networks (SSNI), SimpliVity (HPE), SolarCity (SCTY), SpaceX, Sumo Logic, Tesla (TSLA), Tumblr (YHOO), TrialPay (Visa), Tremor (TRMR), Twitter (TWTR), Yammer (MSFT) and Yellowbrick.

DFJ ePlanet Ventures

2002 - 2006

  • Venture Partner

    2002 - 2006

    Investing in growth stage global high technology companies. This fund's portfolio included investments in Baidu (BIDU) and Skype (bought by eBay).

2004 - 2004

  • SVP Corporate Development

    2004 - 2004

WebPartner

1999 - 2002

  • Founder and CEO

    1999 - 2002

    Co-founded this software company and served as full-time CEO November 1999 through June 2002. Chairman 1997-2012.

1998 - 1999

  • VP Business Development

    1998 - 1999

    Strategy and M&A

1997 - 1998

  • General Partner

    1997 - 1998

    High technology investing

  • SVP Business Development

    1989 - 1997

    Strategy and M&A

  • Associate

    1985 - 1989

    Early stage high technology investing

1981 - 1983

  • Regional Sales Engineer

    1981 - 1983

    Sales support and account strategy