# Mark Trevitt

> Mark Trevitt is a Series A investor at Tribe Capital (Vancouver) backing Software and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tribe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tribe-capital)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktrevitt
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MarkTrevitt
- Website: http://www.bdccapital.ca/ice

Mark Trevitt is a Series A investor at Tribe Capital in Vancouver focused on Software and SaaS. Mark is the Founder and Managing Partner of Defined, a thesis-driven venture capital firm empowering founders shaping the AI Frontier, where data, humans and AI come together to solve problems in radically new ways. He is a former operator and engineer with a passion for company building and empowers and guides founders to achieve this potential.Mark has been investing in AI / ML since 2014 and served on the Boards of DarkVision (acq. by Koch), Neurio (acq. by Generac), Arteria AI, Charli AI, ZenHub, Librestream, Cognota, and Spark, and has been an investor in Bit Stew Systems (acq. by GE), GaN Systems (acq. By Infineon) and SkyWatch. The investment in DarkVision won the CVCA Deal of the Year Award in 2021 and Bit Stew Systems won the award in 2017. Mark is also a Kauffman Fellow, a global innovation network for leading venture capitalists.Mark’s global experience building technology companies - both as a venture capitalist and operator – spans roles in strategy, business development, marketing, partnerships and product. He has worked as a venture investor with BDC Capital, Telegraph Hill Capital, a seed software venture firm in San Francisco and Barcelona, as well as with BP Ventures and Bridges Ventures in London, UK. Prior to this, he led product and created breakthrough algorithms at data analytics company Trucost (acq. by S&P), helped build the first public equities investment strategy at Inflection Point Capital Management with $1.7 billion of assets now under advisement, and worked in engineering at Ferus (acq. by EMG).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 44% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Training | 2 | 22% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 22% |
| Collaboration | 2 | 22% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 56% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 4 | 44% |
| Norway | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kosli | Kosli is a DevOps tool for software developers. Kosli allows users to track and query every change from commit to production. When production breaks Kosli helps users to quickly pinpoint what went wrong. It will tell them exactly what has changed between commit and production, and make it easy for them to query those changes with command linetools. | $10M | Series A | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Tembo | Dev-first, fully-extensible managed Postgres. | $14M | Series A | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| Arteria AI | Arteria AI is a financial services-focused AI company that develops a contract lifecycle management platform for end-to-end digital contracting. Its contract lifecycle management platform helps users generate, negotiate, and turn the executed contracts into data to help clients diagnose problems, identify opportunities, and drive value for theorganization. The company's AI platform forms the documentation layer for banking processes and enables the real-time flow of data and analytics. By connecting documentation processes to the automation lifecycle, the company enables true straight-through processing in core business activities across the enterprise. | $30M | Series B | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Cognota | Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com. | $4.5M | Series A | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Cognota | Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com | $4.5M | Series A | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Arteria AI | Arteria AI is a financial services-focused AI company that develops a contract lifecycle management platform for end-to-end digital contracting. Its contract lifecycle management platform helps users generate, negotiate, and turn the executed contracts into data to help clients diagnose problems, identify opportunities, and drive value for theorganization. The company's AI platform forms the documentation layer for banking processes and enables the real-time flow of data and analytics. By connecting documentation processes to the automation lifecycle, the company enables true straight-through processing in core business activities across the enterprise. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Spark | Spark is a platform specifically designed to power the entire process of selling and marketing real estate. Using technology to help turn leads into buyers, inventory into contracts, and information into usable metrics. Spark is a safe, secure and cost-effective solution for selling and marketing real estate. | $5M | Series A | Jul 28, 2021 |  |
| Cognota | Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 20, 2020 |  |
| Cognota | Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 20, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Generation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generation-ventures-9dfb) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CEAS Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceas-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Differential Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/differential-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Grotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Tribe Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. The team is made up of investors, engineers and scientists who use artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data science to model venture-backed private companies.Beyond investment capital, Tribe deploys these AI tools toseparate signal from noise, helping our companies understand their businesses better. Our data-informed strategy includes an underwriting infrastructure and a quantitative analysis tool called the “Magic 8-ball.” We leverage these tools to provide deep insight on factors driving growth and how to accelerate sustainable growth, honed through years of developing similar products at major tech and finance players like Lyft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Bridgewater Associates. Our team uses these tools to measure quantitative product-market fit, so we can more effectively assess and accelerate what Tribe refers to as “N-of-1” companies - companies with the potential to be 10-100x growth opportunities, while minimizing loss ratio by a large degree. Tribe Capital has $2.2 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Apollo.io, Kraken, Carta, SpaceX, OpenAI, and xAI.

5 contacts available at Tribe Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Boris Revsin | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boris-revsin |
| Alex Chee | Co-founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-chee |
| Arjun Sethi | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arjun-sethi |
| Arush Sehgal | Entrpreneur in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arush-sehgal |
| Brendan Moore | Partner, Data Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-moore-2794 |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Trevitt invest in?

Mark Trevitt invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Training startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mark Trevitt last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Trevitt closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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