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Mark Suster

Partner, Upfront Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Skills

Venture Capital
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Mergers
E-commerce
Corporate Development
Private Equity
Financial Modeling
Strategic Partnerships
Angel Investing
Product Management
Mobile Devices

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2007

    Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm that backed both of my previous start-ups. I had been working with the partners for 8 years prior to joining as a General Partner. I joined "the dark side" to to help fund like-minded entrepreneurs.

2007 - 2007

  • Vice President

    2007 - 2007

    I joined salesforce.com when the company where I was founder and CEO, Koral, was acquired. I stayed through a transition period to ensure that the product was ready for a successful market launch and the entire engineering team of Koral remains at salesforce.com.

Koral (Acquired by Salesforce.com)

2006 - 2007

  • Founder & CEO

    2006 - 2007

    I founded Koral along with my former colleagues from BuildOnline. We built the product over a 2 year period and then officially launched our new product, Koral, at DEMOFall 2006. It was a smashing success and received a lot of industry accolades. We were acquired in March 2007 by salesforce.com.

BuildOnline (acquired by The Sword Group)

1999 - 2006

  • Founder & CEO

    1999 - 2006

1991 - 1999

  • Senior Manager, Strategy Consulting

    1991 - 1999

  • Corporate Finance

    1989 - 1991