# Marc Woodward

> Marc Woodward is a seed investor at Neo Technology Ventures backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Neo Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-technology-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcxwoodward
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/marcwoodward
- Website: https://x.com/marcwoodward

Marc Woodward is a seed investor at Neo Technology Ventures in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Marc joined Neo Technology Ventures in 2004 and has more than a decade of commercial experience with top-tier firms in the venture capital, investment banking, and consulting industries in the US and Australia. Throughout his career, Marc has been involved in early-stage and growth investment transactions and as a Director and Board Observer, hehas helped guide numerous start-up and emerging technology companies.Marc led Neo's investments in and is a Director of SigNav, Genbook, and Open Kernel Labs. Marc also led Neo's investment in RPO and is an Observer on the company's Board of Directors. Marc travels extensively in the United States and more recently China in support of the Neo portfolio, and has built an extensive fundraising, service provider, and business development network. Prior to Neo, Marc was an Associate Director with the Australasian Media & Communications Fund (AMCF), a $120M growth stage venture capital fund in Sydney. While at AMCF, Marc led the firm's investment in Peregrine Semiconductor Corp and subsequently served on the company's Board of Directors. Previously, Marc was a Senior Associate at Battery Ventures, a US$2B venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, where he helped direct investments in the communications industry. Marc co-led Battery's wireless industry investment strategy and helped direct the firm's investment in Airespace, a leading provider of enterprise wireless infrastructure. Airespace was acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) for approximately US$450 million in 2005. Marc also led Battery's investment in E*Offering, which was acquired by Wit Capital Group for approximately US$330 million in 2000. Marc also contributed to Battery’s investment in Aurora Networks and subsequently served as an observer on the Board of Directors.Previously, he was a Technology Research Analyst with Wells Fargo Van Kasper, an investment banking firm in San Francisco, where he analyzed public and private companies in the communications industry. Prior to that, he was a Consultant in the Telecommunications Group of Accenture. Marc graduated from Georgetown University (Washington DC) with a Bachelor of Science degree with major concentrations in Finance and International Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$4.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 60% |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| Internet | 2 | 40% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 40% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thales | Thales is a synthetix ecosystem project building support for trading binary options. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| prePO | prePO is a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to speculate on the value of any pre‑IPO company or pre‑token project. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Tracer DAO | Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world. | $4.5M |  | Jun 26, 2021 |  |
| Mycelium | Mycelium is a market-leading technology company leveraging blockchain technology to make financial markets more efficient. We build financial market infrastructure on public blockchains that is open, transparent, and accessible. We specialise in data provision and financial smart contracts. Mycelium has two core products leveraging financial smartcontracts: Perpetual Swaps and Perpetual Pools.We believe that the growing use of blockchains in financial technology will benefit everyone, and are committed to realising this vision. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 26, 2021 |  |
| Cyneta Networks | Cyneta Networks will be recognized as the global leader in providing intelligent data networking solutions for next generation wireless networks.Cyneta Networks was established to develop and deploy the Intelligent Packet Control Node™, an innovative new network element that optimizes IP communications, significantly reducing costs andgenerating new revenues for wireless carriers. Founded with a vision to provide a new form of visibility and control to wireless packet data networks, Cyneta Networks has developed the first "intelligent" monitoring system that provides wireless carriers with deep visibility into the performance of their data services for particular users and user classes.To provide intelligent monitoring, Cyneta Networks has taken an innovative architectural approach to wireless data monitoring. Cyneta’s solution is designed around a centrally located packet-processing platform that provides a comprehensive view of the operator’s services, looking at every packet traversing the mobile core network. Cyneta has incorporated this technology into an advanced network and service monitoring solution that extracts key information about the performance of the network and the applications and services that run on it.This unique approach offers several advantages for end-to-end fault, performance, and service management. It provides operators with the most complete set of network, subscriber, and services information, allowing for the visibility of not just service quality but how that quality relates to the subscriber or classes of subscribers. The result is increased operational efficiencies, improved user experience, enhanced revenue opportunities, and a greater acceptance of wireless data in the business and consumer markets.Headquartered in Richardson, Texas with additional sales and development offices in the Netherlands and India, Cyneta Networks is partnered with leading Operational Support System (OSS), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), and System Integrator (SI) companies to provide intelligent monitoring solutions to wireless network operators around the world. | $25M | Series B | Oct 29, 2001 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Apollo Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-capital-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maven 11 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-11-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Baires DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baires-dao) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Asset Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-asset-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Neo Technology Ventures

VC Fund · North Sydney, Australia

Neo Technology Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm specialising in early and expansion stage investments in the internet, digital media, communications and clean technology sectors. Neo’s investment model and expertise is based on identifying innovative and sustainable technology- based businesses through which it can helppassionate entrepreneurs create the next market leaders. Neo partners with entrepreneurial management teams to build high-growth business models, and focuses on migrating each of these companies into global markets.

2 contacts available at Neo Technology Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brett Morris | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-morris |
| Marc Woodward | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-woodward |

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## FAQ

### What does Marc Woodward invest in?

Marc Woodward invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marc Woodward's check size?

Marc Woodward typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marc Woodward participates in.

### When did Marc Woodward last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marc Woodward closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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