Mark E. Farrell
Managing Director @ Thayer Investment Partners
San Francisco, United States
Mark E. Farrell is a Series A investor at Thayer Investment Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Mark brings experience as both a finance and legal professional to Thayer Ventures. Most recently, Mark served for over five years as an investment banker at Thomas Weisel Partners, where he helped lead the Internet & Digital Media team and founded the firm’s Social Media practice. During his tenure, Mark advised clients on a number of notabletransactions, including the sale of Intermix (MySpace) to News Corp., and Google’s initial public offering. Mark was also chosen to lead the internal deal team during the Thomas Weisel Partners’ IPO, and served the dual role of lead underwriter and internal corporate development professional.Previously, Mark practiced law for three years at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati where he represented venture capital firms and technology companies in private financings and M&A transactions.Mark received his B.A. from Loyola Marymount University, cum laude, M.A. from University College Dublin (Ireland), with honors, and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude. Mark is currently an Advisor to Pacific Community Ventures and serves on the Penn Law School Alumni Society Board of Managers, as well as the Board of Directors for San Francisco Plan C and SAFE.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Mark E. Farrell invests in
Stages Mark E. Farrell invests in
Countries Mark E. Farrell invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- SaaS 3 (25%)
- Mobile 3 (25%)
- Travel 2 (17%)
- Recruiting 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Seed 2 (17%)
- Series B 2 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (17%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
Investments
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| RS21 is a rapidly growing, global data-science and visualization company with offices in Albuquerque, NM and Washington, DC. We empower organizations to make data-driven decisions that positively impact the world through innovative solutions that are insightful, intuitive, inspiring, and intellectually honest. By providing data-driven insights thatachieve programmatic goals, improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and maximize productivity, we help clients navigate complex data issues in the fields of healthcare, population health, infrastructure resilience, disaster preparedness, supply chain management, and community safety. | $3M / Series A / Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| Swiftmile builts smart parking and charging systems for light electric vehicles such as escooters, ebikes, trikes, etc. These can be for either shared or private-owned vehicles. Swiftmile place stations on public or private property. Swiftmile also has an outdoor digital display that can stream revenue-producing ads along with transit schedulesand PSA’s. | $5M / Series A / Jul 08, 2020 | ||
| BookingPal provides a global distribution system and a centralized booking platform for vacation rental properties. It allows owners and managers of vacation rental properties, timeshare resorts, campgrounds, and RV parks worldwide to increase their online presence and number of bookings. BookingPal offers Vacation Rental Managers and PropertyOwners superior revenue opportunities by utilizing proprietary products to optimize distribution capabilities including myOptimize which calculates listing quality and provides key feedback to achieve optimal channel placement and conversion and myInquiry which provides a qualified team of reservation agents to handle guest reservation communications.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. | $12M / Series D / Mar 04, 2019 | ||
| QLess is the world's first Mobile, Remote and Interactive Queueing, FlexAppointments, Analytics, Real-Time CRM & Marketing platform. QLess sends voice calls and text messages to your customers' cell phones, so they're free to roam as far as their cell coverage will take them. QLess also lets customers opt-in to SMS promotionsfrom the merchant, and lets merchants easily build an SMS marketing channel.QLess is an award-winning wireless solution that has saved more than ten million users from more than 250 straight years standing in line at DMVs, restaurants, retail stores for Fortune 100 companies, shopping malls, doctors' offices, colleges and hundreds of other locations across four continents, as featured in The New York Times, WSJ, TechCrunch, CNET, Mashable, Fortune, PCWorld, NBC, ABC, Fox and many other leading news outlets. QLess was the winner of six 2013 International Business Awards including: IT Executive of the Year, Innovator of the Year, Company of the Year – Computer Services, Most Innovative Company of the Year in Canada and the US, Company of the Year – Computer Software, and Executive of the Year – Computer Software, the Best Overall Business Services Company of the Year Under 100 Employees by the American Business Awards in 2010, named one of the Best Business Innovations of the year by the 2009 American Business Awards, one of the ten most promising new technology companies by Vator & The Funded. QLess partners include BT, Alcatel Lucent and Telefonica, and clients include Vodafone, the states of TX, MI, KS, the Universities of CA & TX, the largest community college districts in the nation, Cleveland Clinic and many others. Investors include the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and successful entrepreneurs. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 20, 2018 | ||
| Viridis is SaaS platform that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill talent. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 07, 2017 | ||
| Viridis is SaaS platform that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill talent. | $4M / Series A / Aug 08, 2016 | ||
| Assured Labor leverages mobile phones and the internet to connect employers with the best low-to-mid wage candidates in their area. The company's disruptive platform is optimized for the realities of the Emerging Markets where 3 of 4 Internet users access the web sporadically and nearly everyone has a cell phone. It fosters social and economicdevelopment by improving efficiency and transparency in labor markets around the world. With 500,000 candidates and 16,000 employers, the company's Latin American brands, EmpleoListo & TrabalhoJá, are growing rapidly in Mexico and Brazil.Assured Labor was established in 2008 and is based in New York, NY, United States. | $6.8M / Series B / Apr 17, 2015 | ||
| BookingPal provides a global distribution system and a centralized booking platform for vacation rental properties. It allows owners and managers of vacation rental properties, timeshare resorts, campgrounds, and RV parks worldwide to increase their online presence and number of bookings. BookingPal offers Vacation Rental Managers and PropertyOwners superior revenue opportunities by utilizing proprietary products to optimize distribution capabilities including myOptimize which calculates listing quality and provides key feedback to achieve optimal channel placement and conversion and myInquiry which provides a qualified team of reservation agents to handle guest reservation communications.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. | $5M / Series B / Feb 19, 2015 | ||
| Viridis is SaaS platform that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill talent. | Seed / May 01, 2014 | ||
| Sphere is pioneering how 360º content gets recorded, distributed, and viewed.The company has 20 pending patents that range from smartphone–based mapping and tracking techniques to bandwidth–sensitive streaming technology for 360º video. Sphere has licensed its software development kit to 60+ brands in 2012, including Samsung, Sony,HomeAway, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Viator. The company is on track for its Sphere app to be pre-loaded on 67 million devices in 1Q14.Sphere is a team of 10, with most of their team comprised of engineers. Their offices are located in San Francisco, California. | $525K / Seed / Oct 01, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in technology companies with a focus on the travel industry. This industry represent more than $10 trillion in annual global economic activity, is thriving with entrepreneurial activity due to disruptive changes within the sector that began more than a decade ago. Recent consumer trends have accelerated thisdisruption for operators across the travel world, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology providers to make significant inroads into what was previously a closed market. Additionally, travel industry suppliers are dealing with massive shifts in travel planning, organizing and booking driven by the Internet and social media platforms. As a result, the travel industry is being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to exploit the opportunities created by this shifting consumer behavior. The combination of these factors has created a unique environment for innovative technology providers to make significant inroads into this massive, growing, and evolving marketplace.
Thayer Investment Partners Contacts
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Jeffery M. Jackson
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Leland Pillsbury
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Mark E. Farrell
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What does Mark E. Farrell invest in?
Mark E. Farrell invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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