Mark Sugarman
Founding General Partner @ MHS Capital
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Mark Sugarman is a seed investor at MHS Capital in San Francisco Bay Area focused on SaaS and Analytics. Mark has been working with startups as an investor, advisor and operator for over 15 years.In 1996, Mark joined Internet Capital Group as an unpaid intern to work alongside and invest in entrepreneurs building early stage technology companies. After spending a few years there, he joined VerticalNet as an early employee, where he helped take thecompany public and led its corporate development/partnerships team.After leaving VerticalNet, Mark returned to investing, first as an angel, and now as the founder and managing partner of MHS Capital
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
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Industries Mark Sugarman invests in
Stages Mark Sugarman invests in
Countries Mark Sugarman invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (23%)
- Analytics 3 (23%)
- CRM 2 (15%)
- Advertising 2 (15%)
- Machine Learning 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Series A 3 (23%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Investments
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| Farmblox is a farm automation platform, combining a sensor ecosystem, carbon sequestration monitoring, and AI workflows – saving up to 50% in labor costs, reducing water usage, and generating new revenue streams for modern farming. Reliably monitoring remote farmland in all weather conditions, Farmblox gives farmers a simple dashboard to quicklyidentify operational issues like irrigation leaks, weather risks, or equipment failure to operate more efficiently. Farmblox allows farmers to mix and match sensors, build AI-powered automation, and manage operations from anywhere within a single, unified platform. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Keyplay provides a novel approach to account research to businesses tired of B2B waste and eager to pursue gtm excellence as buyer rigour. | $3M / Seed / Dec 07, 2022 | ||
| Pienza is ideate, fund, and build SaaS unicorns with high conviction and high time & capital concentration. | $5.1M / Seed / Dec 08, 2020 | ||
| Kindly Care find and manage amazing caregivers for your loved one. Use Kindly Care’s mobile app to manage checklists, review work, and handle payments. | $5.4M / Series A / Jul 17, 2018 | ||
| Kindly Care find and manage amazing caregivers for your loved one. Use Kindly Care’s mobile app to manage checklists, review work, and handle payments. | $3.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 11, 2016 | ||
| Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor,Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.Outreach was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $2.3M / Seed / May 04, 2015 | ||
| Bizible is the unified repository to link data from the disparate sales and marketing data stores, linking CRM, marketing, web site, ad network, and customer support information for a unified view of marketing ROI and customer LTV. It also delivers unparalleled performance insights about all revenue-generating efforts, including demand gen, inboundmarketing, account-based marketing, and outbound sales. Bizible helps marketers at more than 300 companies worldwide discover their customer journey, lead transformation, and power growth. In the first release, Bizible has partnered with Salesforce.com to create an integrated marketing analytics platform that allows you to close the loop between online marketing and revenue. | $8M / Series B / Aug 26, 2014 | ||
| Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achievetheir goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content. | $32M / Series C / May 08, 2014 | ||
| Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achievetheir goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content. | $12M / Series B / Dec 07, 2012 | ||
| Bizible is the unified repository to link data from the disparate sales and marketing data stores, linking CRM, marketing, web site, ad network, and customer support information for a unified view of marketing ROI and customer LTV. It also delivers unparalleled performance insights about all revenue-generating efforts, including demand gen, inboundmarketing, account-based marketing, and outbound sales. Bizible helps marketers at more than 300 companies worldwide discover their customer journey, lead transformation, and power growth. In the first release, Bizible has partnered with Salesforce.com to create an integrated marketing analytics platform that allows you to close the loop between online marketing and revenue. | $2.2M / Series A / Nov 26, 2012 | ||
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Co-Investors
About MHS Capital
MHS Capital is a Venture Capital fund backed by an extraordinary group of technology executives and entrepreneurs, including senior executives from every major Internet portal, and a deep roster of serial entrepreneurs building some of the leading software and Internet companies.
MHS Capital Contacts
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Mark Sugarman
Founding General Partner
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Vijay Nagappan
Principal/Partner
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What does Mark Sugarman invest in?
Mark Sugarman invests primarily in SaaS, Analytics and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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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