Mark G Fields
Partner @ Alsop Louie Partners
Chicago, United States
Mark G Fields is a seed investor at Alsop Louie Partners in Chicago focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Mark Fields is Partner at Alsop Louie Partners. Mark was CEO of Wickr prior to joining ALP. Fields was on the Corporate Development and Finance team at CME Group for 15 years, before leaving to join Wickr. In his final years at CME he launched and was Managing Director CME Ventures.Fields hold a BA in Economics from Rutgers University and anMBA from Pepperdine University. Fields served as a mentor to young professionals and organizations. Currently, he serves on boards of ALP portfolio companies Ion Storage Systems, Baton Systems, Ascent Technologies, and Nabaco.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Mark G Fields invests in
Stages Mark G Fields invests in
Countries Mark G Fields invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (30%)
- Financial Services 3 (30%)
- Payments 2 (20%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Information Services 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Series B 2 (20%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Investments
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| Ion Storage Systems is focused on developing the most energy dense, safest batteries that can be deployed in any environment. Breakthroughs in solid state battery technology have led to a battery that meets the mission critical needs for the defense and aerospace industries; and safer more efficient for consumer electronics and electric vehicles. | $30M / Series A / Jan 09, 2022 | ||
| Nabaco is a developer of fruit protection technology used to protect the planet and reducing waste. It extends the shelf life of the fruits and vegetables by coating them with a transparent solution that is tasteless and odorless, enabling users with fresh and organic products. | Seed / Feb 01, 2020 | ||
| Ascent provides a cloud-based platform that helps financial services firms to keep their businesses compliant. Its platform analyzes business activities, informs about potential compliance obligations, and assists in tracking and complying with relevant requirements. The company's cloud-based solutions include issue tracking and management,industry reference and research materials, and compliance manual documentation.. | $19.3M / Series B / Oct 15, 2019 | ||
| Ion Storage Systems is focused on developing the most energy dense, safest batteries that can be deployed in any environment. Breakthroughs in solid state battery technology have led to a battery that meets the mission critical needs for the defense and aerospace industries; and safer more efficient for consumer electronics and electric vehicles. | $8M / Seed / Jun 10, 2019 | ||
| Ascent provides a cloud-based platform that helps financial services firms to keep their businesses compliant. Its platform analyzes business activities, informs about potential compliance obligations, and assists in tracking and complying with relevant requirements. The company's cloud-based solutions include issue tracking and management,industry reference and research materials, and compliance manual documentation.. | $6M / Series A / Mar 01, 2018 | ||
| Baton Systems is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of payments, clearing, settlement, technology, fintech, and shared ledger. It features a clearing and settlement platform that brings a new level of efficiency to the payments infrastructure across the capital markets.The company was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Fremont, California. | $3M / Seed / Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enablingenterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis. | $28M / Series A / May 19, 2015 | ||
| Dwolla is a payment services provider powering innovations with sophisticated account-to-account payment solutions. Dwolla’s modern API simplifies the complex process of integrating with the various payment networks to create a single end-to-end solution–giving businesses the ability to program payments on the same day, next day or in real-timedirectly to bank accounts. With minimal development, start-ups to Fortune 500 companies can gain efficiency, flexibility and improved cash flow by working with Dwolla. | $9.7M / Series D / Sep 30, 2014 | ||
| Powerlytics helps organizations address significant risk and compliance-related challenges. Powerlytics does this by providing unique economic and financial reports, and analytical insights, that mainly leverage U.S. government-supplied data. These products utilize intelligence about individuals, customers, suppliers and competitors to enableorganizations to make more informed decisions. Powerlytics’ initial product allows companies to generate benchmarking and market sizing reports covering 27 million businesses and 140 million individuals broken down to very granular geographic, industry and size (sales, assets, employees) parameters.Powerlytics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA. | $5M / Sep 24, 2014 | ||
| Wickr is a free top-secret messaging app allowing its users to send and receive top-secret messages, pictures, videos, audios, and files. Its aim is to provide a free and easy way for anyone to send encrypted messages without a trace. Both sender and receiver must have the app to communicate. Only the receiver is able to decrypt the message once itwas sent, and Wickr does not have the decryption keys.Wickr has hundreds of thousands of downloads in over 113 countries. Its clients include celebrities, royalty, reporters, feds, lawyers, doctors, investors, and teens. Its patent-pending technology brings sophisticated security and privacy to everybody. Wickr’s protocol for ephemeral messaging and media uses standard encryption algorithms implemented for mobile devices. This protocol can be integrated into other communications platforms, creating a unified mobile messaging platform that is private, encrypted, and anonymous.Wickr was launched in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. It supports the 1st Amendment of the United States. | $30M / Series B / Jun 26, 2014 |
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About Alsop Louie Partners
Alsop Louie Partners focuses on identifying the most promising entrepreneurs and working with information technology companies specializing in traditional VC parlance and early-stage technology investments. The firm prefers to follow the instincts and experience of the entrepreneurs and invest in all kinds of technology-based ventures. It believesthat it is not the job of venture investors to fund companies that require large amounts of capital, more than $20M, to create a stable, validated business operation.
Alsop Louie Partners Contacts
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Mark G Fields
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William Crowell
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Gilman Louie
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What does Mark G Fields invest in?
Mark G Fields invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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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