• TechCrunch
• CrunchBase
• More
  • TechCrunch Europe
  • TechCrunch France
  • TechCrunch Japan

Mark Suster

edit

Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) following its acquisition of Koral,where Mark was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, the largest independent global content collaboration company focused on the engineering and construction sectors, which was acquired by SWORD Group (PARIS: SWP). Earlier in his career, Mark spent nearly ten years working for Accenture in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Mark received a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a dual citizen of the US and the UK.

Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business.

Mark sits on the Boards of RingRevenue, GumGum and Ad.ly. He was formerly on the boards of EMN8, Qualys, Koral and BuildOnline.

Recent Milestones

edit

• 
  Mark Suster invested in ecomom. (12/10/11)
  Posted 2/15/12 at 2:39pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  Mark Suster invested in Treehouse. (10/17/11)
  Posted 10/17/11 at 5:51pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Member at MyTime. (10/1/11)
  Posted 2/7/13 at 7:49pm
• 
  Mark Suster invested in GameSalad. (3/31/11)
  Posted 3/31/11 at 5:52pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  Mark Suster invested in ecomom. (9/25/10)
  Posted 4/13/10 at 9:02pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  Mark Suster invested in GameSalad. (7/14/10)
  Posted 7/15/10 at 3:33pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Investor Advisory Board at Cendana Capital. (1/1/10)
  Posted 4/7/13 at 6:50pm
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Member at awe.sm. (10/1/09)
  Posted 12/3/11 at 8:59am
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Investor at App7. (9/1/09)
  Posted 7/15/10 at 6:36am
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Partner at GRP Partners. (1/1/07)
  Posted 11/17/08 at 1:54am
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Member at Ad.ly.
  Posted 10/18/09 at 8:42pm
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Member at GumGum.
  Posted 10/15/09 at 1:11pm
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Advisor at Dealmaker Media.
  Posted 8/6/09 at 4:18pm
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Member at RingRevenue.
  Posted 10/18/09 at 8:42pm
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Observer at Qualys.
  Posted 10/18/09 at 8:42pm
• 
  Mark Suster added a position as Board Member at Bedrock.
  Posted 12/2/09 at 5:41pm

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Health Conscious Mom Commerce Site Ecomom Raises A Healthy $4 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Web Design Community Treehouse Raises $600K From Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. GameSalad Raises $6.1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Gendai Games Raises Over $1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]