Mark Kurtz

Global Sales and Alliance Leader at Microsoft | Retail | CPG | Data & AI | GTM | SIs | Azure | CSCO, CDO and CMO focused

📍 Seattle, Washington, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Global Strategic Advisor / Investor
Jul 2018
Transparent Path spc is a social purpose corporation focused on supply chain visibility. Our mission is to reduce food waste, financial risk, and food insecurity by creating more trust and transparency in our most critical supply chains. Powered by IoT sensors, collaborative cloud software, and artificial intelligence, Transparent Path’s secure, scalable platform provides food manufacturers, processors, logistics partners and retailers with the ability to see and act on supply chain issues in real-time. As a result, Transparent Path’s customers know immediately when something goes wrong, can act to prevent risk, and can anticipate supply chain issues before they occur. Transparent Path was founded by Eric Weaver, a 30-year enterprise transformation specialist. Prior to founding Transparent Path, Weaver launched the Xerox Customer Experience Practice, where he managed a $550M services book of business. Please visit xparent.io to learn more.
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Mar 2016
Make.TV opens up possibilities for broadcasters of all sizes to acquire, curate, program and distribute multiple hyper-local live video sources from anywhere in the world to any destination (including video viewing platforms and owned broadcast networks), enabling experiences that engage viewers longer, increase monetization opportunities and drive brand value. Make.TV’s Live Video Cloud technology is trusted by leaders in news, sport, entertainment and esports, including ESL/Turtle Entertainment, RTL / CBC, Swisscom and SWR/ARD. Make.TV is a division of LTN Global.
early stageBroadcast Media
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2021
Senior Partner Development Manager - Blue Yonder Alliance
May 2021
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
2018
Global Strategic Advisor / Investor
Jul 2018
Transparent Path spc is a social purpose corporation focused on supply chain visibility. Our mission is to reduce food waste, financial risk, and food insecurity by creating more trust and transparency in our most critical supply chains. Powered by IoT sensors, collaborative cloud software, and artificial intelligence, Transparent Path’s secure, scalable platform provides food manufacturers, processors, logistics partners and retailers with the ability to see and act on supply chain issues in real-time. As a result, Transparent Path’s customers know immediately when something goes wrong, can act to prevent risk, and can anticipate supply chain issues before they occur. Transparent Path was founded by Eric Weaver, a 30-year enterprise transformation specialist. Prior to founding Transparent Path, Weaver launched the Xerox Customer Experience Practice, where he managed a $550M services book of business. Please visit xparent.io to learn more.
2017
Audiotool.com
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Jun 2017
2016
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Mar 2016
Make.TV opens up possibilities for broadcasters of all sizes to acquire, curate, program and distribute multiple hyper-local live video sources from anywhere in the world to any destination (including video viewing platforms and owned broadcast networks), enabling experiences that engage viewers longer, increase monetization opportunities and drive brand value. Make.TV’s Live Video Cloud technology is trusted by leaders in news, sport, entertainment and esports, including ESL/Turtle Entertainment, RTL / CBC, Swisscom and SWR/ARD. Make.TV is a division of LTN Global.
early stageBroadcast Media
1996
Co-Founder
1996
For 25 years the world’s premier brands have come to Gage for marketing technology, platforms and a full range of marketing services to help clients grow sales, profits and market share. Our work spurs consumers, customers and channel partners to take action for some of the world’s best-known brands, including 3M, Microsoft, Skype, Walmart, Norwegian Cruise Line and Thomson Reuters. We are the recent recipient of the global Brandon Hall Excellence Award in the area of mobile development, a 2016 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in global e-learning, and we were named a B2B Top Shop in 2016 and 2017 by Chief Marketer magazine. Headquartered in Minneapolis, and with offices in Seattle and Los Angeles, visit gage.com, join us at facebook.com/gagegroup and linkedin.com/company/the-gage-group, and follow us on Twitter @gagegroup. Learn more: www.gage.com 763-595-3800
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