# Mark McLaughlin

> Mark McLaughlin is a Series A investor backing Software and Cyber Security. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmclaughlin4
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/markatpan
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/markmcl

Mark McLaughlin is a Series A investor in Santa Clara focused on Software and Cyber Security. Chairman Of The Board at Qualcomm.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 40% |
| CRM | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Sales | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 60% |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Israel | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aurascape | Aurascape is a cybersecurity business that provides generative AI protection solutions against emerging cyber threats. | $50M | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Aurascape | Aurascape is a cybersecurity business that provides generative AI protection solutions against emerging cyber threats. | $12.8M | Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Reach Security | Reach Security helps security leaders and operators measure, manage, and maximize the value they’re getting from their security investments. They contain control recommendations and supporting materials tailored to the threat profile. | $20M | Series A | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Hub | Hub was developed specifically to help the presales individual contributor and leadership manage their daily activities to win more business. Hub is the presales source of record that integrates with popular customer relationship management (CRM) and productivity applications.The Hub presales productivity platform supports the following businessoutcomes:"Make every presales perform like your best presales professional""Ensure that right people are working on the right things""Advocate for the right product features that will drive the right revenue""Automate CRM data entry associated with presales activities""Improve collaboration on presales opportunities that matter the most""Access a unified presales workspace for jobs that need attention"Hub is the presales productivity platform that support individual contributors with technical discovery, presentation, demonstration, solution definition, service scoping and evaluation (POC/POV) management. Hub also provides presales management with greater analysis, insights, understanding of product gaps holding up revenue, provide their own presales forecast view on sales, make data driven investments and take corrective actions based on leading indicators.To learn more about Hub, please visit www.hub.inc. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| DriveNets | DriveNets is a fast-growing IP networking software company that revolutionizes Communications Service Provider (CSP) networks by disaggregating the network infrastructure from core to edge, similar to the way hyperscalers have disaggregated the cloud. DriveNets Network Cloud is an open distributed disaggregated networking solution based oncloud-native software and standard networking white boxes.The company was founded in 2016 by Ido Susan and Hillel. | $7M | Series A | Jul 08, 2019 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AIspace Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aispace-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celesta-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mayfield Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayfield-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrvi-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Artisanal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artisanal-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ballistic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballistic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Mark McLaughlin invest in?

Mark McLaughlin invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and CRM startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Mark McLaughlin?

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### When did Mark McLaughlin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark McLaughlin closed in Apr 2025. 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.

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