Philosophy

At Markpoint Venture Partners we strive to achieve the most attractive risk reward ratio by selectively diversifying our investment activity across various industries, technologies and investment stages. Markpoint seeks to invest in companies with sound business fundamentals, clear potential for rapid growth, attractive and sustainable operating margins and opportunities for early investor liquidity. Consistent with its seed and early-stage focus, Markpoint places extraordinary importance upon the experience, quality and character of the management team.

Below are some of Markpoint Venture Partners' underlying investment philosophies:

Invest with Proven, Passionate Management Teams. Markpoint Venture Partners targets businesses operated by management teams with proven entrepreneurial track records and more specifically, those entrepreneurs who have devoted their careers and a significant portion of their net worth to building their company. Markpoint believes management incentives should be structured around financial and operating targets that promote long-term equity value and that the most meaningful incentives should be realized upon a successful exit event of the company.

Back Truly Innovative and Ambitious Initiatives. Markpoint Venture Partners seeks to invest in those companies that possess the ability to become market leaders in their respective industry. These companies generally possess disruptive and proprietary technologies that have defensible barriers to entry.

Seek Quality Co-Investment Partners. Markpoint Venture Partners actively seeks to co-invest with other leading venture capital firms from across the country. Markpoint feels that syndicated venture investments provide our portfolio companies with greater access to capital, broader strategic relationships, and an expanded recruiting base of available management talent. To date, Markpoint Venture Partners has successfully, directly and indirectly, co-invested with over 30 top-tier venture capital firms representing over $35 billion in venture capital under management.

Maintain experienced group of Advisors. Markpoint Venture Partners works closely with a select group of outside advisors to help evaluate and technically validate investment opportunities. These individuals are highly successful entrepreneurs in their own right and regularly co-invest with Markpoint in the same companies they recommend.

Maintain a Visible Role in Portfolio Companies. While Markpoint feels that it is management’s responsibility to run the day-to-day operations of the business, Markpoint and its co-investment partners will actively assist management with strategic planning, new financings, executive recruitment, acquisitions, and divestitures. In most cases, a Markpoint representative will either directly serve on the Board of Directors or act as an observer to such Board of each portfolio company.

Generate Multiple Exit Opportunities. Markpoint Venture Partners targets opportunities that offer multiple exit scenarios within a 36 to 60 month period.