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Mark Trevitt

✣ Founder & GP @ Defined | Early-stage VC Data + AI | Kauffman Fellow

Vancouver, British Columbia

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship
Start-ups
Investments
Sustainability
Asset Management
Leadership
Energy
Management
Sustainable Business
Cleantech
Climate Change
Emerging Markets
Strategy
Business Strategy
Private Equity
Valuation
Renewable Energy
Financial Modeling
Due Diligence

Education

Work Experience

2023

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2023

    First believers in founders shaping the AI Frontier. We're thesis-driven and product-first to empower founders to re-architect how to solve problems in radically new ways. Investments: Arcanna AI, Datalogz, Inverted AI, Quandri, Tembo, Zyphra (stealth), AI for Spatial Biology + Precision Medicine (Stealth), Robotics + AI (stealth) and others unannounced.

  • Venture Partner

    2023

    $1.6B+ AUM venture capital firm focused on using product and data science to engineer N-of-1 companies and investments.

  • Kauffman Fellow, Co-Chair of AI Special Interest Group

    2018

    With 940 Fellows across 61 countries, Kauffman Fellows is the largest and most connected network of venture capitalists in the world. In 30 years since inception, Kauffman Fellows have started hundreds of funds, raised and deployed hundreds of billions of dollars in capital, and helped pave the way for some of the world’s most groundbreaking companies. As a network, Kauffman Fellows represent 680 VC firms, over $329B in portfolio exits over the last five years, and 15% of all unicorns are funded by Fellows. Visit: www.kauffmanfellows.org/community/network

2024

  • Global Advisory Council

    2024

    One of the most innovative banks in Europe creating the Fintech District in Italy, which today brings together over 260 Fintech startups and scaleups and promotes Open Innovation initiatives with the corporate world.

  • Board Observer

    2023

    Breaking down barriers to level 4-5 autonomy with generative AI

  • Associate

    2019

    "Build Something Massive." The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a unique program for scalable technology-based ventures, providing a unique style of milestone-based coaching with the goal of maximizing value creation. Associates and Fellows work with, advise, and support the CDL companies to help set benchmarks and achieve goals. Active programs in Toronto, New York, Oxford, UK, Vancouver, Seattle, Halifax, Montreal and Calgary.

2022 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2023

    Data-centric end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management solutions powered by AI.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2023

    Spark is transforming the way new real estate development is marketed, sold and managed.

2020 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2023

    First and only data-driven operations platform built for learning and development teams.

2020 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2023

    Productivity and automation platform software development teams rely on to deliver better software, faster.