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- Marah Dudenhoeffer: PrincipalPast Role: Verizon Ventures, Principal
K2 Access Fund is focused on early-stage startups ranging from Pre-Seed to Series C rounds. The Fund invests alongside Tier-1 venture firms.
K2 Access' unique value-added programs and processes are designed to fuel a startups success and helps founders with product market fit and customer acceleration through access to F250 executive
sponsors and technology evangelist champions across the K2 Access CXO network.
Through ongoing ecosystem engagement, K2 Access gains deep market insights enabling the Fund to spot early successes. Programs like, exclusive off-the-record, intimate, rare wine Architect Dinners with chief and principal AI architects and technologists. Or, the K2 Access Technology Days which are designed to connect Tier 1 backed startups with CXOs of F500 companies & early adopters to address their critical business needs. As well as, hands-on programs with an esteemed group of current and former CXO’s where startups receive very direct feedback on what specific changes they need to make to their presentations to get follow-on meetings.
The Managing Directors of the Fund include: Clark Golestani - former President Emerging Business and Global CIO, Merck; Ken Hausman- Managing Director, Hausman Ventures & Mirador Capital, Seed Investor / Advisor, Snowflake Computing, Investor: Sequoia, Lightspeed, Menlo, others; Jack Greenfield, Former CVP of Enterprise Architecture and Chief Architect, Global Technology Platform at Walmart, Held Senior Engineer and Architect positions at Google, eBay, PayPal, Microsoft, IBM and NeXT (acquired by Apple).
Investment Committee Members include: Arvind Sodhani - Founder and President, Intel Capital, former EVP, Intel Corporation, Head of M&A, Intel Corporation, Investment Cmtte, Intel Retirement ($15B AUM); Cuong Do - President & CEO, BioVie, former President, Global Strategy Group, Samsung, former Chief Strategy Officer for Merck, Tyco Electronics, and Lenovo, former Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; co-leader of Health Care, High Tech and Corporate Finance Practices; Firas Sozan - CEO, Harrison Clarke, Partners with Tier 1 VCs including Sutter Hill Ventures, Sequoia, Greylock, Index, and Redpoint and supporting their portfolio companies, Built the largest network of world class engineering talent exclusively within the DevOps/SRE and DevSecOps space. Regarded across Silicon Valley as the go-to-recruiter in the space!
