Mark Bakken
Founder and Managing Partner at HealthX Ventures
Madison, Wisconsin
Invests in
Skills
Education
Investments
RxLightning
Total Funding: $18M
CancerIQ
Total Funding: $20M
Ideawake
Total Funding: $1M
Nurse Disrupted
Total Funding: $700K
Goods Unite Us
Total Funding: $980K
Wellbe
Total Funding: $2M
Kilter
Total Funding: $430K
One Solstice
Total Funding: $450K
healthfinch
Total Funding: $2M
Redox
Total Funding: $95M
OpenHomes
Total Funding: $190K
Moxe Health
Total Funding: $30M
Work Experience
2015
Founder and Managing Partner
2015
An early-stage venture fund with >36 portfolio companies across 3 funds, HealthX Ventures leads pre-seed, seed, and series A investments in digital health companies. We are the proud partners of companies such as Medable, Redox, DotCom Therapy, RehabPath, CareX.ai, RxLightning, InsightRx, KeyCare, and many more.
2016 - 2020
Board Member
2016 - 2020
2015 - 2019
Board Member
2015 - 2019
2010 - 2014
Founder and CEO
2010 - 2014
Bootstrapped the business from startup to $120m a year in revenue in less than 5 years. Was recognized as the #46 fastest growing company in the USA by Inc magazine in 2014. Today Nordic has more than 3,000 employees. Nordic was sold in 2021 for >$400m.
2004 - 2009
Senior Vice President of Business Development
2008 - 2009
Helped with the smooth transition of Bedrock clients and contracts to Tushaus. Tushaus was later Acquired by Dedicated Computing.
Founder & CEO of Bedrock Managed Services & Consulting, (ACQ: Tushaus/Dedicated Computing)
2004 - 2008
Created a patent-pending Managed Services methodology for remotely managing Microsoft systems. Grew the business from start up to $5M/year in managed services revenue. Sold the business to Tushaus in 2008. Tushaus was later acquired by Dedicated Computing.
2003 - 2003
VP of Information Systems
2003 - 2003
Identified a way to save $30M/year on their IT budget by consolidating technologies and optimizing processes.
1993 - 2002
GM-Midwest
2002 - 2002
Helped with the smooth transition of Goliath customers to IIS
Founder & CEO of Goliath Networks, ACQ: IIS
1993 - 2001
Bootstrapped IT services business from startup to $25M/year in sales. Helped Microsoft create the Gold certification program and advised Microsoft for 7 consecutive years on their Infrastructure Partner Advisory Council. Sold the business to a public company (IIS) in 2001