Marc Averitt

Seeding SoCal Tech Startups since 2005

📍 Orange County, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
18
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12
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1
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Investor & Board Member
Jan 2025
StockApp is currently incubating at (StartXP25) at Stanford University.
Board Member
Mar 2023
Multiplayer is a collaborative platform that makes it easier for teams to work on distributed software. By connecting to your services and your code, it brings together disconnected SaaS services and shows dependencies so users can make changes to backend software without breaking things. It also offers platform version control, visualization, and deep integrations with third party providers, so teams have an always up-to-date picture of their SaaS sprawl and a better way to work on distributed systems.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Paladin Cloud is a rapidly growing, open source, cloud security company with a Security-as-Code platform that helps developers and security teams significantly reduce risks in cloud environments to protect their applications and data. The company’s holistic approach to cloud security is based on its policy management plane that leverages best practice security policies in an open, connector-based architecture. Paladin Cloud supports developers in their cloud native journey by helping them identify blind spots in their cloud environments to protect their applications and data. The single pane of glass, policy management plane provides visibility into your cloud assets through real-time, continuous monitoring to quickly identify and remediate security risks. For security teams, Paladin Cloud’s powerful visualization and compliance reporting provides actionable intelligence and context to help prioritize the events that matter.
Board Member
Jan 2022
DepoDirect is a tech-enabled court reporting company building the future of remote depositions with our best-in-class solution for online deposition services featuring a platform-level Zoom integration. The platform and Zoom integration provide a witness video, picture-in-picture video, and rough transcript automatically available after the deposition in our transcript-synced player. DepoDirect offers law firms and insurance companies tremendous time savings along with cost savings of up to 50% on their deposition service expenses while providing many advantages over traditional in-person deposition services and other online deposition providers. The DepoDirect platform includes * A trained reporter included on every deposition at no additional cost * A best-in-class Exhibit Suite that seamlessly publishes, stamps, annotates, and uploads documents to all participants with no unnecessary delays * Independent control of exhibit documents and the ability to import new exhibits at any time. * A seamless meeting using our partnership with Zoom Video Communications DepoDirect offers a white-glove experience for a fraction of the cost of other deposition services. The DepoDirect Platform is built for the legal industry by legal professionals, for legal professionals.
early stageLegal Services
Board Member
Dec 2020
NotiSphere’s goal is to prevent recalled items from ever causing harm to a patient at a healthcare provider. Currently, in order to communicate recalls, the industry uses an inaccurate, paper-based, very slow process, creating situations that sometimes cause patient harm and sometimes even death, but that always divert attention from patient care. At NotiSphere, we are addressing this with a digital platform that allows immediate and accurate communication between suppliers and providers, eliminating notice fatigue and errors, and reducing the time it takes for recalls to be acted on by everyone involved. By streamlining the process to manage a recall, and reducing the overall cycle time, we ultimately impact patient safety and the ability of healthcare providers to focus on what’s important.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Ubiq is an application-layer encryption API that enables development, security, and compliance teams to rapidly integrate application-layer encryption w/ fully integrated key management into any application in minutes. And empowers teams reduce the risk of data theft, free up precious resources, and build compliant and secure-by-design applications.
Board Observer, Investor
Oct 2018
ChromaCode is a molecular diagnostics company with a bioinformatics focus and pedigree from Illumina, Google[x], Luminex, and Caltech. We leverage patented mathematical methods and algorithmic enhancements to enrich signal processing from the most popular life science instrumentation. We are using this to extract new information on biochemistry reactions and substantially increase the performance capabilities of today’s gold-standard biochemical assays at a very low cost. Visit us at www.chromacode.com.
Investor
Dec 2017
Developer-oriented security platform, helping small and large companies protect their software from malicious activity
Board Member
Dec 2015
Specright is the first purpose-built platform for Specification Data Management™. Whether it’s packaging, raw materials, formulas, products, or machines, Specright helps companies digitize, map, and take action across their supply chain to reduce costs, increase profitability, and drive sustainability. Our customers operate in agriculture, automotive, cosmetics, food & beverage, manufacturing, FMCG/CPG, medical, or any industry reliant on accurate specifications. Founded in late 2014, Specright is privately held and headquartered in Irvine, California.
Investor
Nov 2015
ArtLifting champions artists impacted by housing insecurity and disabilities by connecting their art with socially-conscious businesses and customers. Through partnerships with over 415 corporate clients, ArtLifting artists share their talents and stories with the world while earning an income from art sales and royalties. As a next generation art consultancy, ArtLifting provides scalable art solutions and curation services for any environment. Our clients work with us to differentiate the design of their spaces, promote brand values, and inspire communities. ArtLifting makes tangible social impacts with our partners by reducing stigma and stereotypes and creating economic opportunities for artists who are traditionally underrepresented in the contemporary art market. ArtLifting clients include Google, Starbucks, CBRE, FedEx, Bank Of America, PayPal, Hines, Microsoft, Staples, West Elm, Hallmark, CBOE, and LinkedIn. ArtLifting’s impact has been featured in: *The Today Show *The New York Times *ABC News *CBS News *The Boston Globe *TechCrunch *The Washington Post *The LA Times
Board Member
Aug 2015
Fotobom Media, Inc. is a cutting-edge mobile platform that powers meaningful customer connections through messaging. Messaging is the fastest growing sector of social media. Its also the most challenging area for digital marketers to engage mobile audiences and measure results. The vast majority of social sharing occurs in the "Dark Social"​ space, yet the majority of marketing budgets still remain dedicated to traditional social media marketing outlets. As a result, consumers on traditional social platforms are over-marketed to, and look-alike modeling targeting tactics continually fall short of intended results. Fotobom Media enables marketers to reach mobile messaging users with a 1:1 "Direct Social"​ methodology - the most compelling form of mobile marketing. Fotoboms platform currently generates over 1 billion impressions, allowing marketers to significantly reach new mobile audiences, drive meaningful customer interactions, execute on action-based campaigns, and gain critical insight into campaign performance. The company was founded by Stanford University graduates and leaders from the ad tech, media, and wireless industries.
Investor
May 2015
Babylist is the leading digital destination for growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn more about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content and more, visit www.babylist.com You can also see a list of open positions at www.babylist.com/jobs.
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Qualaroo is a SaaS company that enables companies to gain valuable insights from their prospects and customers ‘in the moment’ when they are using your website or app. Qualaroo’s mission is to help companies understand why their customers and prospects make decisions. Understanding the why helps drive better business results – from improving your web conversion rate, increasing product engagement, reducing churn and more. At Qualaroo, we believe product managers, designers, and marketers should be empowered to execute programs and campaigns that maximize the value of their website or app visitors. Qualaroo makes it possible to target prompts by user behavior, specified needs, demographics, or any other internal data. We call these prompts ‘Nudges’ that can be used to get insights about visitors and influence their behavior. Companies all over the world such as Zillow, Lenovo, eBay, TripAdvisor, etc. use Qualaroo’s real-time feedback platform for its advanced targeting capabilities, seamless design, and reporting dashboard. Over 100 million users have given feedback via Qualaroo’s technology Over 5 billion people have seen a Qualaroo nudge Over 55 thousand Qualaroo nudges have been published Over 123 million responses have been received from Qualaroo nudges Analytics tell you what people are doing, Qualaroo tells you why!
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Founded in 2012, Pegasus manufactures simple, durable mounting solutions for rooftop solar. Today, over 150,000 solar installations have used Pegasus mounting products. It started with a belief there was a better way to mount rooftop solar. Since our first sketches years ago, that passion has only grown. Today, Pegasus Solar is defined by continual improvement. We’re always looking for ways to advance mounting systems and the installation process. Reimagining. Strengthening. Simplifying. When a customer told us our products made for a “better day on the job,” a mantra was born. Because that’s what drives us to the shop in the morning: Finding ways to make every step of your experience better. From the warehouse to the rooftop. From the packaging and installation, through clean-up, inspection and a lifetime of great value. It’s our mission to make rooftop solar easy. We’re proud to be a growing American company committed to big ideas and customers like you.
Investor
Aug 2013
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value. CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
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2025
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2025
StockApp is currently incubating at (StartXP25) at Stanford University.
2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
Multiplayer is a collaborative platform that makes it easier for teams to work on distributed software. By connecting to your services and your code, it brings together disconnected SaaS services and shows dependencies so users can make changes to backend software without breaking things. It also offers platform version control, visualization, and deep integrations with third party providers, so teams have an always up-to-date picture of their SaaS sprawl and a better way to work on distributed systems.
2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
Paladin Cloud is a rapidly growing, open source, cloud security company with a Security-as-Code platform that helps developers and security teams significantly reduce risks in cloud environments to protect their applications and data. The company’s holistic approach to cloud security is based on its policy management plane that leverages best practice security policies in an open, connector-based architecture. Paladin Cloud supports developers in their cloud native journey by helping them identify blind spots in their cloud environments to protect their applications and data. The single pane of glass, policy management plane provides visibility into your cloud assets through real-time, continuous monitoring to quickly identify and remediate security risks. For security teams, Paladin Cloud’s powerful visualization and compliance reporting provides actionable intelligence and context to help prioritize the events that matter.
Board Member
Jan 2022
DepoDirect is a tech-enabled court reporting company building the future of remote depositions with our best-in-class solution for online deposition services featuring a platform-level Zoom integration. The platform and Zoom integration provide a witness video, picture-in-picture video, and rough transcript automatically available after the deposition in our transcript-synced player. DepoDirect offers law firms and insurance companies tremendous time savings along with cost savings of up to 50% on their deposition service expenses while providing many advantages over traditional in-person deposition services and other online deposition providers. The DepoDirect platform includes * A trained reporter included on every deposition at no additional cost * A best-in-class Exhibit Suite that seamlessly publishes, stamps, annotates, and uploads documents to all participants with no unnecessary delays * Independent control of exhibit documents and the ability to import new exhibits at any time. * A seamless meeting using our partnership with Zoom Video Communications DepoDirect offers a white-glove experience for a fraction of the cost of other deposition services. The DepoDirect Platform is built for the legal industry by legal professionals, for legal professionals.
early stageLegal Services
2020
Board Member
Dec 2020
NotiSphere’s goal is to prevent recalled items from ever causing harm to a patient at a healthcare provider. Currently, in order to communicate recalls, the industry uses an inaccurate, paper-based, very slow process, creating situations that sometimes cause patient harm and sometimes even death, but that always divert attention from patient care. At NotiSphere, we are addressing this with a digital platform that allows immediate and accurate communication between suppliers and providers, eliminating notice fatigue and errors, and reducing the time it takes for recalls to be acted on by everyone involved. By streamlining the process to manage a recall, and reducing the overall cycle time, we ultimately impact patient safety and the ability of healthcare providers to focus on what’s important.
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