Mark Goodman

Venture Capital Investor and Board Member

📍 Greater Boston, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 15 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Sep 2026
YuzeData is the industry-trusted data partner for sustainability software providers navigating the open and intelligent world. Founded by executives from the sustainability software industry, we eliminate the friction of data connectivity and go beyond the connection — giving software providers the platform to operate at scale, deliver insights that improve performance, and build the data foundation that agentic AI will depend on. Our purpose-built platform combines domain-inspired innovation with expert services: pre-built connectors and templates, automated data operations, and YuzeInsights to turn connected data into competitive advantage. Fit for purpose today. Built for agents tomorrow. We partner the way partnerships should work — embedded in your sales motion, your delivery, and your customer success. Founded by industry insiders, we understand the domain, the ecosystem, and what it takes to make enterprise data connectivity work at scale. The window is now. Software providers that dont have a solid data layer in place will not be able to participate in the agentic AI revolution. YuzeData ensures youre ready. Already the market leader — working with 5 of the top 10 largest sustainability software providers and a community that serves over 50,000 end user customers worldwide. Let us know if we can help you accelerate your data and AI capability.
Investor
Aug 2025
Data Loss Prevention is a broken promise. Were here to fix it. For too long, security teams have been trapped in a cycle of failure. Legacy DLP systems, built on rigid rules and broken formulas, have created a storm of noise and alert fatigue. They bury teams in false positives while real threats get missed. This isnt just ineffective; its exhausting. Jazz is DLP, Remastered. We didnt just add another layer to the problem; we rebuilt the solution from first principles. We replaced outdated rules with an AI-powered Agentic Investigator that understands the one thing that matters: context. Our platform automatically investigates data movement to understand the "why" behind every action, providing clear, actionable answers instead of more alerts. Its the difference between noise and signal. Were giving security teams their time, their sanity, and their effectiveness back. Welcome to the new era of DLP.
Investor
Jan 2025
Dune Security is replacing legacy phishing simulations and security awareness training tools with a unified, automated User Adaptive Risk Management platform. It delivers User Adaptive Testing, Training, and Security to reduce administrative burden and mitigate risk. Unlike one-size-fits-all SAT models, Dune tailors security measures to each individual using intrinsic data (role, tenure), behavioral insights (red team testing), and analytics from a broad range of integrations (IDAM, EDR, DLP). Dune leverages the industrys most comprehensive risk scoring system to holistically assess individual risk, enabling automated, targeted remediation for high-risk users while allowing low-risk users to stay productive. This data-driven approach enhances security efficacy, streamlines operations, and strengthens overall organizational resilience.
Investor
Dec 2024
Kivo Health provides AI-powered virtual care for chronic lung disease (COPD). We offer an insurance-covered program that improves symptoms and reduces costs of care for a top 3 costliest chronic disease among seniors. Were backed by YCombinator and partnered with health systems such as Stanford, UCLA, Corewell, and others. Were growing quickly and are hiring across multiple roles. To learn more visit our website or email us at hello@kivohealth.com.
Investor
Mar 2024
Empathy is a leading technology company transforming the way people plan for and navigate life’s toughest moments. By combining cutting-edge innovation with compassion, Empathy provides unparalleled support for bereavement, estate management, legacy planning, and more. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and leading life insurers, Empathy serves over 50 million individuals across North America and the UK, setting a new standard for modern family care and workplace benefits. Empathy’s mission is to make care as practical as it is compassionate—partnering with employers, insurers, and financial institutions to deliver scalable support that eases emotional burdens, simplifies complex logistics, and empowers families to move forward with clarity and resilience.
Board Observer
May 2022
Phosphorus Cybersecurity® is the leading CPS Protection Platform delivering a proactive approach to security management for the exploding IoT, OT, and IoMT attack surface. Designed to find and secure the rapidly growing, unknown, and often unmonitored world of Cyber-Physical Systems across the xTended Internet of Things landscape, our Unified xIoT Security Management Platform provides unmatched security management and breach prevention across every industry vertical—delivering high-fidelity discovery and risk assessment, proactive hardening and remediation, and continuous monitoring and management. With patented xIoT Intelligent Active Discovery and risk assessment, Phosphorus automates the mitigation and remediation of the most significant IoT, OT, IIoT, and IoMT device vulnerabilities – including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, default credentials, out-of-date and vulnerable firmware, risky configurations, banned and end-of-life devices, and expired or self-signed certificates.
Investor
Jun 2020
The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage data requests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
RiskLens is the leading provider of cyber risk quantification software. We empower large enterprises and government organizations to manage cyber risk from a business perspective, quantifying it in dollars and cents. Our customers leverage RiskLens to understand their cyber risk exposure in financial terms, prioritize their risk mitigations, measure the ROI of their security investments, and optimize their cyber insurance coverage. RiskLens is the only cyber risk quantification software purpose-built on FAIR, the standard quantitative model for information security and operational risk. We have expertise working with hundreds of large enterprises across critical industries such as healthcare, financial services, technology.
Board Observer
Feb 2016
CyberGRX = TPRM for the speed of your business. When assessments take weeks or months to complete, it impairs an InfoSec teams ability to speak into a vendor decision. With CyberGRXs library of 14,000 attested assessments, 250,000 company profiles, predictive risk insights and threat intelligence, you can make initial vendor decisions immediately. And, if deeper evaluation is needed, CyberGRX plus ProcessUnitys automated workflows streamline the process so youll never chase assessments again. The risk of inaction is costly. The ROI of CyberGRX and ProcessUnity is proven. Replace outdated, manual risk management processes with a smarter, more efficient means to manage your third-party risk. Know whats lurking in your vendor ecosystem. 20% of your third parties are high risk...do you know which ones? Book time with our team-- well not only show you your greatest vulnerabilities, but well demonstrate how to gain efficiency and effectiveness in your third-party risk management program: https://www.cybergrx.com/book-a-demo #TPRM #ThirdPartyRisk #RiskManagement #VendorRiskManagement #cybersecurity
Board Member
Nov 2015
Tuition.io's award-winning technology enables global employers to offer student loan payments as an employee benefit. It is the nation's leading student loan management platform, which has helped tens of thousands of borrowers organize more than $2 billion in outstanding loans. Typical users increase their monthly payments by between 4-8 percent and the site has shown a drastic 20 percent reduction of delinquent loans. It is a proven tool for hiring and retaining competitive talent while addressing the $1.7 trillion student loan crisis at the same time. Tuition.io has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Time, Fast Company, Mashable, LifeHacker, CNBC, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Techcrunch and more.
Board Observer
Jun 2015
Tamr, the leader in data products, enables customers to use data product templates to consolidate messy source data into clean, curated, analytics-ready datasets. Organizations benefit from Tamr, the industry’s first suite of data product templates that combine human curation, patented machine learning, mastering rules and enrichment with first- and third-party data to accelerate business outcomes and deliver business-changing insights. Tamr’s cloud-native and SaaS solutions enable industry leaders such as Toyota, Western Union and GSK to get ahead and stay ahead in a rapidly changing competitor environment.
Board Observer
Apr 2015
Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides end-to-end intelligence across adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. Indexing the internet across the open web, dark web, and technical sources, Recorded Future provides real-time visibility into an expanding attack surface and threat landscape, empowering clients to act with speed and confidence to reduce risk and securely drive business forward. Headquartered in Boston with offices and employees around the world, Recorded Future works with over 1,600 businesses and government organizations across more than 74 countries to provide real-time, unbiased and actionable intelligence. Learn more at recordedfuture.com.
Board Observer
2010
MC10 reshapes electronics to create thin, conformal systems that flex, stretch, and bend seamlessly with the natural world. The company combines breakthrough technology with innovative engineering to develop products that advance quality of life. MC10 and its technology are now a part of Medidata Solutions Inc., a Dassault Systèmes company. Visit MC10 online at www.mc10inc.com and www.medidata.com/en/clinical-trial-products/patient-centric-clinical-trials
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2026
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Sep 2026
YuzeData is the industry-trusted data partner for sustainability software providers navigating the open and intelligent world. Founded by executives from the sustainability software industry, we eliminate the friction of data connectivity and go beyond the connection — giving software providers the platform to operate at scale, deliver insights that improve performance, and build the data foundation that agentic AI will depend on. Our purpose-built platform combines domain-inspired innovation with expert services: pre-built connectors and templates, automated data operations, and YuzeInsights to turn connected data into competitive advantage. Fit for purpose today. Built for agents tomorrow. We partner the way partnerships should work — embedded in your sales motion, your delivery, and your customer success. Founded by industry insiders, we understand the domain, the ecosystem, and what it takes to make enterprise data connectivity work at scale. The window is now. Software providers that dont have a solid data layer in place will not be able to participate in the agentic AI revolution. YuzeData ensures youre ready. Already the market leader — working with 5 of the top 10 largest sustainability software providers and a community that serves over 50,000 end user customers worldwide. Let us know if we can help you accelerate your data and AI capability.
2025
Investor
Aug 2025
Data Loss Prevention is a broken promise. Were here to fix it. For too long, security teams have been trapped in a cycle of failure. Legacy DLP systems, built on rigid rules and broken formulas, have created a storm of noise and alert fatigue. They bury teams in false positives while real threats get missed. This isnt just ineffective; its exhausting. Jazz is DLP, Remastered. We didnt just add another layer to the problem; we rebuilt the solution from first principles. We replaced outdated rules with an AI-powered Agentic Investigator that understands the one thing that matters: context. Our platform automatically investigates data movement to understand the "why" behind every action, providing clear, actionable answers instead of more alerts. Its the difference between noise and signal. Were giving security teams their time, their sanity, and their effectiveness back. Welcome to the new era of DLP.
Investor
Jan 2025
Dune Security is replacing legacy phishing simulations and security awareness training tools with a unified, automated User Adaptive Risk Management platform. It delivers User Adaptive Testing, Training, and Security to reduce administrative burden and mitigate risk. Unlike one-size-fits-all SAT models, Dune tailors security measures to each individual using intrinsic data (role, tenure), behavioral insights (red team testing), and analytics from a broad range of integrations (IDAM, EDR, DLP). Dune leverages the industrys most comprehensive risk scoring system to holistically assess individual risk, enabling automated, targeted remediation for high-risk users while allowing low-risk users to stay productive. This data-driven approach enhances security efficacy, streamlines operations, and strengthens overall organizational resilience.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Kivo Health provides AI-powered virtual care for chronic lung disease (COPD). We offer an insurance-covered program that improves symptoms and reduces costs of care for a top 3 costliest chronic disease among seniors. Were backed by YCombinator and partnered with health systems such as Stanford, UCLA, Corewell, and others. Were growing quickly and are hiring across multiple roles. To learn more visit our website or email us at hello@kivohealth.com.
Investor
Mar 2024
Empathy is a leading technology company transforming the way people plan for and navigate life’s toughest moments. By combining cutting-edge innovation with compassion, Empathy provides unparalleled support for bereavement, estate management, legacy planning, and more. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and leading life insurers, Empathy serves over 50 million individuals across North America and the UK, setting a new standard for modern family care and workplace benefits. Empathy’s mission is to make care as practical as it is compassionate—partnering with employers, insurers, and financial institutions to deliver scalable support that eases emotional burdens, simplifies complex logistics, and empowers families to move forward with clarity and resilience.
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