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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

Work Experience

2018

  • Founder and CEO

    2018

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

2005

  • 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.

  • 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

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

1989 - 1997

  • 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