Mark Carges

Technology Advisor & Board Member

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Nov 2019
Born out of a passion for photography, Capture One provides photographers with the tools to easily collaborate with clients and creatives and achieve the highest quality photograph, bringing their visions to life. Our powerful photo editing software is built on more than twenty-five years of technical expertise. Today, we offer the fastest tethered shooting in the industry, an intuitive and efficient workflow, unparalleled image quality with support for over 600 camera and lens profiles, true-to-life color processing, and precise editing and collaborative tools. Based in Denmark and Greece, our passionate team from around the world challenge each other daily to make sure we answer the needs of our community. At Capture One, we believe in creating an inclusive work culture with people who are representative of the diverse community we serve. We follow the Scandinavian mindset of giving our teams full trust to run with ideas while keeping each other accountable and ensuring that customer benefit is at the heart of everything we do. We are on a journey to become the most efficient ecosystem of creative and collaborative tools with a flexible photography workflow seamlessly spanning across multiple devices, letting you work from anywhere and with anyone. Our love of imaging translates into empowering our ever-growing community of over 260,000 photographers across the globe to show the world.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 875 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Veeva is growing to 10,000 employees by 2025, so visit the Jobs section for open positions and remember that correspondence to new applicants and existing candidates will only come from an official @veeva.com email address.
Board Member
Sep 2014
Splunk is helping to build a safer and more resilient digital world by equipping customers with the unified security and observability platform they need to keep their organization securely up and running — no matter what digital disruptions come their way.
Board Member
Sep 2012
Magnet Systems is a leader in conversational mobile interfaces providing superior user experiences powered by chatbots and AI. Our innovative enterprise software utilizes chatbots to intelligently access information and perform updates to backend systems and cloud applications through a conversational mobile interface.
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2022
Board Member
Aug 2022
Meals on Wheels San Francisco is committed to the belief that all seniors have the right to live independently with dignity and respect in their own homes for as long as it is safely possible. It is our mission to provide isolated homebound seniors in San Francisco with nutritious meals, daily friendly visitors, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization. This year, Meals on Wheels will deliver more than 2 million meals to homebound seniors throughout San Francisco. In addition to meals and frequent visits from our drivers, our clients receive full support from our social work team, our nutritionists, and an active base of volunteers who attempt to reduce isolation through friendly visits, helping with shopping and other chores. Meals on Wheels provides much more than a meal…we nourish the whole person.
2020
Board Member
Mar 2020
SteelSeries is a global leader in the gaming and esports industry, which is made up of billions of gamers around the world who all need and want only the best gaming equipment. We make the most award-winning, cutting-edge products to help gamers play like the pros. Esports pros have won the most money using SteelSeries gear. For us it’s all about cutting through all the flash and hype to meet the real needs of gamers. Whether its on a console, PC, or your mobile phone, your path to gaming glory requires the best products from a company that has believed in esports and gaming from the very beginning. From creating the first mechanical gaming keyboard, to the first dedicated gaming headset, to sponsoring the most successful E-Sports teams in history, gaming is in our DNA.
2019
Board Member
Nov 2019
Born out of a passion for photography, Capture One provides photographers with the tools to easily collaborate with clients and creatives and achieve the highest quality photograph, bringing their visions to life. Our powerful photo editing software is built on more than twenty-five years of technical expertise. Today, we offer the fastest tethered shooting in the industry, an intuitive and efficient workflow, unparalleled image quality with support for over 600 camera and lens profiles, true-to-life color processing, and precise editing and collaborative tools. Based in Denmark and Greece, our passionate team from around the world challenge each other daily to make sure we answer the needs of our community. At Capture One, we believe in creating an inclusive work culture with people who are representative of the diverse community we serve. We follow the Scandinavian mindset of giving our teams full trust to run with ideas while keeping each other accountable and ensuring that customer benefit is at the heart of everything we do. We are on a journey to become the most efficient ecosystem of creative and collaborative tools with a flexible photography workflow seamlessly spanning across multiple devices, letting you work from anywhere and with anyone. Our love of imaging translates into empowering our ever-growing community of over 260,000 photographers across the globe to show the world.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Phase One A/S is a leading provider of high-end imaging technology for aerial mapping, industrial inspection, cultural heritage digitization and commercial photography. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and with regional offices in New York, Denver, Cologne, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Phase One nurtures long-term relationships with customers, technology partners and its global network of distributors, often playing the role of digital imaging partner to customers with special requirements. It is with this passion for service that Phase One continually exceeds customer expectations and drives the imaging industry forward. Our products are known for their quality, flexibility and speed enabling pro photographers to shoot in a wide range of formats. For more information, please see: http://www.phaseone.com
2017
Senior Advisor
Sep 2017
Overview Generation was established in 2004 as an independent, private, investment management partnership with offices in London and San Francisco. The Generation team represents a diverse mix of people from around the world representing more than 20 countries and speaking over 25 languages. Our investment team was founded by bringing together seasoned investment analysts with leaders from the sustainability research field. Generations investment approach is based on our conviction that sustainability risks and opportunities directly affect long-term business profitability. We believe the interests of shareholders, over time, will be best served by companies that maximise their financial return by strategically managing their economic, social and environmental performance. Generation has built a global research platform in order to integrate sustainability research into fundamental financial analysis. We are closely aligned with our clients, and our performance is measured over the long term.
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