Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Co-CEO Primary Organization Dream VC
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Website www.markkleyner.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Co-Founder @ Dream-VC | Entrepreneur and Early Stage VC | Breaking Down Barriers in Venture Capital
Mark is a founder, investor and ecosystem builder active in the African Startup Scene. He is the current co-founder and program director at Dream VC - an investor accelerator and community-driven educational platform providing rigorous remote
programmes centred specifically around venture capital across Africa's startup ecosystems.
Biography: Mark is an entrepreneur, ecosystem builder and early-stage investor in Emerging Markets. Mark has worked within VCs in the UK, US, Europe and Africa and actively advises, coaches and mentors several very early stage West & East African startups - who have gone on to raise upwards of $10m in Venture Financing, and joined programs like Google's Black Founders Fund Africa, PioneerApp, TechStars and Y Combinator. Mark is passionate about empowering the private sector to take responsibility for making people's lives better and is a big advocate for Consumer and Enterprise Software Startups as mediums to improve lives around the world. Mark is also a co-founder of Dream VC, a leading remote program, helping founders, entrepreneurs and working professionals across the African continent and among the diaspora to break into the Venture Capital industry as emerging investors.
Beyond these activities, Mark is an active startup mentor in 9+ Accelerators and Incubators at Startupbootcamp, Impact Hub Lagos, Seedstars, Founder Institute and Village Capital. Mark is also a startup mentor with FasterCapital and StartupLoungeAfrica.
