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Mark Fernandes

Managing Director, Sierra Ventures

San Mateo, California

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $7,750,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Mergers & Acquisitions
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Investments
Management
Product Management
Portfolio Management
Consulting
Strategic Partnerships
Corporate Development
SaaS
Scalability
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
CEOs
Security
User Experience
Analytics

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2002

    Mark Fernandes is a Managing Director at Sierra Ventures. His prior investments include Sourcefire (IPO; Cisco $2.7B acquisition), Ooyala (Telstra), Frontbridge and Opalis Software (both acquired by Microsoft) RedLock (Palo Alto Networks) and DynamicOps (VMware). He currently serves on the boards of Reify Health, Yalo, Spectro Cloud, Paro and a few other companies. He started the Sierra CXO Advisory Board which now has over 75 F2000 executives.

  • Board Of Directors

    2018

    Transforming patient recruitment for clinical trials

  • Board of Directors

    2019

    Enterprise Kubernetes management

2018

  • Board Of Directors

    2018

    CRM platform built on WhatsApp

2019

  • Board of Directors

    2019

    Talent matching platform for finance professionals

  • Board of Directors

    2015

2013 - 2022

  • Board of Directors

    2013 - 2022

    Zimperium was acquired by Liberty Strategic Capital for $525M

2016 - 2018

  • Board Of Directors

    2016 - 2018

    RedLock was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2018.

2008 - 2014

  • Board of Directors

    2008 - 2014

    Ooyala was acquired by Telstra for $420M in 2014

2002 - 2013

  • Board of Directors + Lead Investor

    2002 - 2013

    Sourcefire went public in 2007 and was acquired by Cisco for $2.7B in 2013.