# Mark Leschly

> Mark Leschly is a Series C investor at Rho Capital Partners backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rho Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rho-capital-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Aug 2018
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-leschly/50/656/137

Mark Leschly is a Series C investor at Rho Capital Partners in New York focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Mark Leschly has served as a member of our board since 2002. Since July 1999, Mark Leschly has been a Managing Partner with Rho Capital Partners, an investment and venture capital management company.Previously,Mark Leschly was an Associate and then a General Partner of HealthCare Ventures, a venture capital management company, from 1994 through1999. In addition to serving as a director of Verenium Corporation, NitroMed, Inc., and Tercica, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ipsen). Mark Leschly is on the board of a number of private companies. Mark Leschly received an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 20% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Advertising | 2 | 13% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 4 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Professional Fighters League | Professional Fighters League is a mixed martial arts league. | $28M | Series B | Aug 08, 2018 |  |
| ChargePoint | ChargePoint brings electric vehicle (EV) charging to more people and places than ever before as the world’s leading EV charging network. These stations are available as public charging stations, consumer subscription plans, and utility grid management technology for electric utility companies to smooth electric demands on the grid.ChargePoint wasincorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, California. | $82M | Series G | Mar 02, 2017 |  |
| ChaCha | ChaCha is the leading, free real-time answers service that has emerged as the #1 way for advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with the audience of their choice anytime, anywhere. Through its unique "ask-a-smart-friend" platform, has answered over two billion questions since launch from more than 32 million unique users permonth, and is ranked among comScore's top 100 websites.ChaCha delivers human-powered answers via SMS text (242-242), iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha). Working with major brands such as Paramount, NBC Universal Digital, AT&T, Palm, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and presidential political campaigns, is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast. ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS as well as Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems; Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer; the Simon family; and Jack Gill, Silicon Valley venture capitalist. | $14M |  | Jan 28, 2013 |  |
| TechStyle Fashion Group | TechStyle Fashion Group is a global fashion and lifestyle retailer founded in 2010 to deliver access, quality and style for unprecedented value. TechStyle Fashion Group uniquely merges advanced technology with the latest fashion trends to offer an entirely new shopping experience to millions of customers worldwide, including 5 million VIP Members,through a portfolio of apparel and shoe brands. TechStyle Fashion Group is reimagining the business of fashion through data, personalization and vertical integration to benefit the modern shopper. TechStyle Fashion Group’s brands include JustFab, Fabletics, ShoeDazzle, Savage X Fenty and FabKids, and are available in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. | $80M | Series B | Jul 26, 2012 |  |
| Inotek Pharmaceuticals | Inotek Pharmaceuticals is developing molecules with novel mechanisms of action to fulfill major unmet medical needs in significant diseases of the eye. Complete loss of vision or vision impairment currently affects 3.3 million people over the age of 40 in the United States, with the most common diseases including age-related macular degeneration(AMD), glaucoma, cataract and diabetic retinopathy. With the continued aging of the population, the National Eye Institute projects that this number will grow to 5.5 million people by the year 2020. | $23.6M | Series D | Jul 19, 2011 |  |
| Tapjoy | Tapjoy’s Maximum Impact Platform™ provides mobile engagement and monetization services for leading advertisers and app developers. Advertisers rely on Tapjoy’s diverse suite of rewarded Interplay™ ads including video and rich media to impact performance. Developers utilize our technology and mobile expertise to acquire and monetize users. TheTapjoy SDK is currently embedded in over 15,000 mobile apps, reaching 520 million monthly active users. A 2016 comScore™ study confirmed Tapjoy Interplay® ads deliver an unprecedented 3x lift across all brand metrics. The company works with Fortune 500 brands and the Top 200 grossing app developers. Founded in 2007, Tapjoy is a global organization with more than a dozen offices worldwide and is headquartered in San Francisco. | $21M | Series C | Jan 06, 2011 |  |
| ChaCha | ChaCha is the leading, free real-time answers service that has emerged as the #1 way for advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with the audience of their choice anytime, anywhere. Through its unique "ask-a-smart-friend" platform, has answered over two billion questions since launch from more than 32 million unique users permonth, and is ranked among comScore's top 100 websites.ChaCha delivers human-powered answers via SMS text (242-242), iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha). Working with major brands such as Paramount, NBC Universal Digital, AT&T, Palm, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and presidential political campaigns, is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast. ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS as well as Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems; Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer; the Simon family; and Jack Gill, Silicon Valley venture capitalist. | $20M | Series F | Oct 01, 2010 |  |
| ChargePoint | ChargePoint brings electric vehicle (EV) charging to more people and places than ever before as the world’s leading EV charging network. These stations are available as public charging stations, consumer subscription plans, and utility grid management technology for electric utility companies to smooth electric demands on the grid.ChargePoint wasincorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, California. | $15M | Series C | Sep 08, 2010 |  |
| Gloucester Pharmaceuticals | Gloucester Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company owned by hematological malignancies. The Company retains worldwide exclusive rights to romidepsin, an oncology candidate within a new class of anti-cancer agents known as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. Preclinical studies suggest that romidepsin is a potent inhibitor of Class I, Class II and Class IV HDACs. | $29M | Series D | Aug 25, 2009 |  |
| Slacker | Slacker Radio is next-generation personalized radio, allowing music lovers to choose from the broadest selection of human-curated music, news and sports stations that are personalized to their taste. Listeners can also create their own stations from a catalog of songs 10 times as large as the leading service. Slacker can be accessed for free fromvirtually any mobile device and most new car models. Slacker was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego. For more information about Slacker, or to listen for free, visit www.slacker.com. | $12.2M | Series C | May 14, 2009 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Care Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/care-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aberdare Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aberdare-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mission Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mission-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sevin Rosen Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevin-rosen-funds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VantagePoint Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vantagepoint-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Venrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Rho Capital Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho's four operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, Rho Fund Investors and Rho Acceleration.

5 contacts available at Rho Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Ruch | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-ruch |
| Habib Kairouz | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/habib-kairouz |
| Mark Leschly | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-leschly |
| Peter Kalkanis | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-kalkanis |
| Jeff Martin | Partner & General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-martin-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Leschly invest in?

Mark Leschly invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Mobile startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mark Leschly last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Leschly closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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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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