Mark Young

Chief Investment Officer | Platform Builder | Capital, Creative & Civic Infrastructure

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 27 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Apr 2026
https://linktr.ee/fish.audio
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Jan 2024
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
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Nov 2022
Hawkhill Homes empowers consumers to unlock their share of the American Dream. We are a real estate technology company connecting investors with next generation rental solutions. We draw on our decades of experience as early pioneers in the Single Family Rental space having built and operated platforms for the largest investors and proptech firms globally. Since 2012, we have been operators, builders and investors in SFR and proptech. Deep relationships, people, data and focus are our drivers. Connect with us: connect@hawkhillhomes.com
Chief Investment Officer | Board Member
Aug 2022
Concreit empowers everyone to discover wealth with real estate. Concreit enables fractional private real estate investing for everyone by making it as effortless as setting up a digital wallet and picking and choosing individual properties. Concreit is a mobile-first platform that is easy, flexible, and more rewarding than traditional ways of real estate investing. Concreit is breaking the barriers that hold back the 99% from leveraging the world’s oldest wealth-generation strategy in their own lives.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor
Apr 2022
Versus taps the power of proprietary AI to gamify content, making fandom fun & rewarding and increasing engagement, retention and revenue for our partners across entertainment, news, sports, social and search.
Investor
Jan 2022
Pearpop is the full-stack infrastructure powering the creator economy. Through three connected pillars, Pearpop, Pearpop Talent, and Pearpop AI, we enable creators, managers, and brands to work together smarter and faster. Pearpop is a full-service creator marketing partner trusted by the world’s best brands. We deliver insight-driven creative services, whether as a standalone solution or as an extension of your creative team, backed by creator curation and best-in-class media support that amplifies creator content for full-funnel impact. Pearpop Talent represents top creators, offering full-service management powered by modern tools, industry expertise, and Pearpop AI. Pearpop AI coming soon.
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Dec 2021
Si has llegado hasta aquí porque buscabas un banco, lo sentimos, te has equivocado. Nosotros somos justo los que estamos en contra. En contra de la banca tradicional. En contra de las comisiones ocultas. En contra de las colas y llamadas de teléfono eternas. En contra de poner las mentiras en grande y las verdades en letra pequeña. En contra de tener que estar atado a un banco para gestionar tu dinero. En contra de los productos financieros que ni entiendes ni necesitas. Estamos en contra de todo, menos de cambiar el mundo de la banca. Ha llegado el momento de que tomes el control de tu dinero y, si eso es lo que buscas entonces sí estás en el sitio correcto 💰📱 ¡Bienvenido a Bnext!
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Oct 2021
Archer is an AI-powered suite for the modern real estate investor, lender, and broker. We’ve initially started with tools for deal teams to accelerate their market analysis, deal sourcing, and underwriting processes – leading to more great deals done with less resources.
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Sep 2021
Get everything done. Get Magic. A world-class assistant to scale your business and life without limits.
Investor
Aug 2021
The gym, reinvented. Experience a complete gym solution that is the size of a suitcase. Take your training anywhere on a single charge.
Investor
Aug 2021
Ligandal is a genetic medicine company that uses nanotechnology to develop targeted and personalised therapies. As a regenerative medicine biotechnology company, Ligandal develops ultra-rapid therapeutics and vaccines for outbreaks and pandemics, in addition to its work in immuno-oncology and rare genetic diseases. Our current focus is on delivering a peptide-based cure to the COVID-19 pandemic (SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus), as part of a broader mission of enabling personalized medicine on a global scale through the power of nanomedicine and gene therapies. Given that increasingly complex disease states require precise and custom-tailored medicine, much of our technology development has focused on combining gene therapy with targeting peptides to enable completely new paradigms in evolutionary medicine. Currently, we are utilizing a peptide nanoscaffold based approach for treating COVID-19 without a gene therapy component, with the goal of creating a combined antidote-vaccine. My expertise lies in targeted gene delivery, nano- and biomaterials, computational modeling of peptides, binding simulations, immunoengineering, as well as CRISPR and TALEN based gene editing. At Ligandal, we have demonstrated peptide-based delivery of CRISPR, RNA, DNA, siRNA, and a range of genes or proteins to virtually any cell type.
late stageBiotechnology
Investor
Aug 2021
Idiomatic is Voice of Customer in a box, used by companies such as Pinterest, Instacart, and HubSpot. It can be used to build a voice of customer program or to look into automating an existing program. With Idiomatic, customer feedback analysis can power the VOC to make changes that actually improve your Customer Experience. Idiomatic: -Ingests your customer feedback from every data source. -Automatically classifies the feedback so you don’t have to read every comment. -Prioritizes feedback so you can focus on what matters. -Summarizes and communicates that feedback to the parties who matter. The solution aims to eliminate manual deep dives. Idiomatic pre-tags tickets for customer service routing. The customer feedback data types analyzed include helpdesk, surveys, app reviews, product reviews, social media, and forum/communities. The biggest drawback we hear about other customer feedback analytics software is that they are based on large language models or natural language processing (NLP). These general models are good at surfacing high-level themes, insights, and key phrases in text analysis, but are not tailored to give specific granular insights for each individual business or industry, taking into account language that is unique to you. This means that you still have to do deep dives to read lots of tickets to understand the specifics of what’s going on with a theme or phrase. Idiomatic builds a new taxonomy unique to each client’s business that helps you better understand your customers and their specific feedback about your products and services. The Idiomatic models are not “theme” based, but use machine learning based on our taxonomy to better understand the relationship and meaning of your customer feedback. This means you can process high volumes of data at scale, and deliver specific human-understandable insights without requiring you to do deep dives to read lots of tickets to get actionable insights about your business.
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Aug 2021
Nguyen Coffee Supply is the first Vietnamese-American & woman-owned importer and roaster of specialty coffee beans from Vietnam in the U.S. We are proud to partner with a 4th generation farmer who owns and operates his family farm in Vietnam’s famed Central Highlands. Together, we set out on an unprecedented mission: bring his organic, green beans to the U.S. for people to enjoy fresh roasted and in a variety of brew styles. Nguyen Coffee Supply was founded by Sahra Nguyen, a first generation Vietnamese American and a quintessential Millennial of the “Slash Generation.” Her multifaceted creative career includes award-winning documentary filmmaker behind NBC News’ “Deported,” co-founder of New York Times reviewed restaurant “Lucy’s Vietnamese Kitchen,” co-founder of podcasting agency “Listening Party,” and a 2018 Google Next Gen Tech Policy Leader. Nguyen is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, who fled their country by boat after the Vietnam War, and eventually settled in Boston, MA, where she was born and raised. Through coffee, Nguyen is telling a new story and creating new opportunities for people within the global coffee community -- from the farmers to consumers. Weve built our own direct trade coffee network to import green beans and fresh roast in Brooklyn, NY. While Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world, and the largest producer of robusta beans -- Nguyen Coffee Supply builds on this market potential by existing as one of the only places for fresh roasted Vietnamese coffee beans in the U.S. Nguyen Coffee Supply is expanding third-wave coffee culture by celebrating diversity in the coffee community, offering sustainably sourced coffee beans, and championing the people behind the world’s second largest coffee production. The brand slogan, “For the People’s Grind,” reflects our mission to inspire and fuel the universal grind.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
Aug 2021
Earn up to $1,000 Cash Back at over 9,000 apartment buildings Lighthouse is a real estate platform that puts renters first. Empowering our users while removing complexity. Our dedicated team of Lightkeepers are here to not just support you in finding somewhere to live, but somewhere you can call home. We are able to offer exclusive Cash Back rewards that can reduce your rent by up to $100 per month at no cost to renters. Why? Because we want to make renting more affordable to all. Renting should be a stepping stone towards homeownership and financial well-being. We can’t wait to be your guide.
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Aug 2021
Slope helps financial institutions expand access to credit and reduce risk—without overhauling systems, rewriting credit policies, or retraining teams. Our underwriting infrastructure transforms raw transaction data into real-time credit intelligence, accurately classifying key signals like income, rent, and debt obligations. This enables institutions to assess thin-file, near-prime, and underserved borrowers with greater confidence—based on how customers actually manage their cash flow, not just their credit file. We make it easy to activate the data already flowing through your systems—deposit and payment activity that reflects real-world financial behavior. Built from firsthand lending experience, Slope integrates directly into existing workflows and strategies, enhancing what works. The result: a more inclusive, responsive, and data-driven credit lifecycle—so you can approve more, lose less, and move faster, without adding operational burden.
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2026
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Apr 2026
https://linktr.ee/fish.audio
2025
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Sep 2025
Founded in 2006, JBF Entertainment is a San Francisco-based creative platform advancing Asian American storytelling through development, production, and strategic industry alliances. We connect emerging filmmakers with established producers, financiers, and cultural leaders to create direct pathways to mentorship, capital, and distribution. Rooted in the city’s creative resurgence and aligned with expanding film incentives, JBF champions bold independent work and produces projects that reflect the depth and complexity of our communities. Our long-term vision is to build enduring creative infrastructure and establish San Francisco as a leading center for Asian American film and media worldwide.
2024
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Jan 2024
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
2022
Investor
Nov 2022
Hawkhill Homes empowers consumers to unlock their share of the American Dream. We are a real estate technology company connecting investors with next generation rental solutions. We draw on our decades of experience as early pioneers in the Single Family Rental space having built and operated platforms for the largest investors and proptech firms globally. Since 2012, we have been operators, builders and investors in SFR and proptech. Deep relationships, people, data and focus are our drivers. Connect with us: connect@hawkhillhomes.com
Chief Investment Officer | Board Member
Aug 2022
Concreit empowers everyone to discover wealth with real estate. Concreit enables fractional private real estate investing for everyone by making it as effortless as setting up a digital wallet and picking and choosing individual properties. Concreit is a mobile-first platform that is easy, flexible, and more rewarding than traditional ways of real estate investing. Concreit is breaking the barriers that hold back the 99% from leveraging the world’s oldest wealth-generation strategy in their own lives.
mid stageReal Estate
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