Mark Siegel

As a gruwth-stage partner at Menlo Ventures, Mark focuses on investments primarily in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and computational biotech. His secondary areas of interest include drones, autonomous vehicle technology, and AI. Mark has also led consumer investments for Menlo in DropCam (acquired by Nest), eero (acquired by Amazon), and Tenor (acquired by Google). Mark holds a bachelor of science in physics from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. At MIT, Mark did computer modeling of dark matter and galaxy formation, which eventually landed him at Oracle's Massively Parallel Processing group as a product manager. In this role, he was part of the original team that developed and deployed one of the first true massively parallel and multi-threaded commercial software offeringsthe Oracle Parallel Server. Mark then started and managed a consulting group at Oracle dedicated to serving early customers of this product. In business school, Mark got the startup bug and went on to work in business development for Netscape from the first year of its inception through its IPO in 1996. Mark is still actively involved with both MIT and Stanford, serving on MIT's Corporation Development Committee and the Stanford Business School Trust. Mark is also a board member of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and has been a member of the Dean's advisory committee to MIT's School of Science.