Mark Yusko
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer @ Morgan Creek Capital Management
Chapel Hill, United States
Mark Yusko is a seed investor at Morgan Creek Capital Management in Chapel Hill focused on Cryptocurrency and Financial Services. Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1998 to 2004. Throughout his tenure, hedirectly oversaw strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations to the Investment Fund Board, investment manager selection, manager performance evaluation, spending policy management and performance reporting. Total assets under management were $1.5 billion ($1.2 billion in endowment assets and $300 million in working capital). Until 1998, Mr. Yusko was the Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office where he joined as the Assistant Investment Officer in October of 1993. He worked with the Chief Investment Officer in all aspects of Endowment Management. Mr. Yusko received his Bachelor of Science Degree, with Honors, in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago. Mr. Yusko is an Advisory Board member of a number of private capital partnerships and alternative investment programs and has served as a consultant on alternative investments to a select group of institutions. Mr. Yusko is an Investment Committee member of the MCNC Endowment, President and Chairman of the Investment Committee of The Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Foundation at the University of Notre Dame, and President and Head of the Investment Committee of the Morgan Creek Foundation.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Mark Yusko invests in
Stages Mark Yusko invests in
Countries Mark Yusko invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 3 (21%)
- Financial Services 3 (21%)
- FinTech 2 (14%)
- Computer 2 (14%)
- Blockchain 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Series A 2 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 6 (43%)
- Israel 1 (7%)
- Australia 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| ProCap Financial is a bitcoin-native financial services firm. | $516.5M / Post-IPO Equity / Dec 05, 2025 | ||
| ProCap Financial is a bitcoin-native financial services firm. | $235M / Post-IPO Debt / Dec 05, 2025 | ||
| Arch is a financial technology company that offers loans to alternative asset owners. | $5M / Seed / Aug 22, 2024 | ||
| Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies. They accelerate compute performance, enabling companies to adopt and scale solutions to the world’s most complex problems.EL3CTRUM is their Blockchain product line, starting with the most efficient hashing ASIC on the market, optimized forhigh-performance, high efficiency, and low-power, and is the heart of their hashboards and systems. EL3CTRUM delivers optimal payback time.3PU™ is their Privacy product, dramatically accelerating real-time operations of Privacy Enhancing Technologies on encrypted data, transforming the cloud into a trusted environment, and enabling new verticals to adopt the cloud at scale, including financial institutions, healthcare & big pharma, defense & government, oil & gas, and more. Purpose-built and custom-designed, their solutions power the next generation of secure, scalable, green computing to help protect people, privacy, and the planet. | $70M / Series C / Feb 23, 2023 | ||
| Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Founded in 2017 by an encryption technology pioneer, a former political operative and a banking veteran, AIKON’s vision is to build technology products that decentralize and catalyze the global digital economy. AIKON believes that the world must become a decentralized global economy to facilitate worldwide collaboration and equal opportunityregardless of location, background, or easy access to banks or credit cards. AIKON has raised $2 million from Palo Alto-based OVO Fund and various angel investors from the U.S., Japan and Europe. | $10M / Series A / Sep 29, 2022 | ||
| Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies. They accelerate compute performance, enabling companies to adopt and scale solutions to the world’s most complex problems.EL3CTRUM is their Blockchain product line, starting with the most efficient hashing ASIC on the market, optimized forhigh-performance, high efficiency, and low-power, and is the heart of their hashboards and systems. EL3CTRUM delivers optimal payback time.3PU™ is their Privacy product, dramatically accelerating real-time operations of Privacy Enhancing Technologies on encrypted data, transforming the cloud into a trusted environment, and enabling new verticals to adopt the cloud at scale, including financial institutions, healthcare & big pharma, defense & government, oil & gas, and more. Purpose-built and custom-designed, their solutions power the next generation of secure, scalable, green computing to help protect people, privacy, and the planet. | $70M / Series C / May 01, 2022 | ||
| 24 Exchange renders multi-asset trading platform for professional quants and active traders. | $7M / Series B / Mar 07, 2022 | ||
| EnterDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building products to enable new markets within the Web3 metaverse economy. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Many years in the making, Lyre’s exquisite range of lovingly crafted alcohol-free, classic spirits was borne from a quest to make the impossible possible. To provide an alternative to those who don’t wish to imbibe alcohol, but still wish to enjoy the mirth, merriment and social intercourse of an evening soiree or shindig. But this is not justany alternative. Every Lyre’s spirit looks, tastes and sashays around the palate just like the original. And yet, the absence of giggle juice enables revellers to remain clear-headed, of good cheer and in fine fettle to pursue whatever tickles their fancy the following day. Lyre’s – the finest range of non-alcoholic classic spirits the world has ever seen. | $26.8M / Series A / Nov 15, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. They provide a customized investment solution to clients in need of a targeted investment program, as well as discretionary strategies to assist clients in building investment programs based onthe University Endowment Model. They provide asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction.Morgan Creek was founded in July 2004 by Mark W. Yusko, former Chief Investment Officer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC") Endowment. The core of the Morgan Creek investment team has worked together in a fiduciary capacity for many years managing one of the most complex endowment management programs in the country. Mr. Yusko and Managing Director Mike Hennessy were responsible for building the Investment Office and subsequent Management Company operations for the UNC Endowment, and they worked closely with the Investment Fund Board to develop investment policy, set goals and objectives, establish a strategic framework, select investment managers and manage portfolio risk.
Morgan Creek Capital Management Contacts
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Mark Yusko
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Jason A. Williams
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Patrick Cairns
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Mark Yusko invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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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