Mark Trevitt

Founder & Managing Partner @ Defined | Building the AI Frontier® | Kauffman Fellow & Co-Chair, AI Network

📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Observer
2025
Foundation is developing the future of general purpose robotics with the goal to address the labor shortage. Our mission is to create advanced robots that can operate in complex environments, reducing human risk in conflict zones and enhancing efficiency in labor-intensive industries.
Investor
2023
Zyphra is a full-stack AGI company based in San Francisco, California
Board Observer
2023
Inverted AI (www.inverted.ai) has developed leading, best-of-class, directable, human-like NPCs for vehicle simulators critical for achieving fully autonomous vehicles. Inverted AI has an exceptional entrepreneurial and machine learning team with best-of-class technology dubbed Imagining the Road Ahead (ITRA) producing realistic multi-modal predictions and directable, human-like NPCs from widely available data. Autonomous vehicle companies and others can save billions in data collection. The team is recognized for its research and technology leadership and is well-positioned to scale and commercialize.
Board Member
2022
We build data-centric end-to-end Digital Documentation powered by AI. Our award-winning platform Arteria turns your documents into data that powers your data systems and automates and accelerates documentation processes to reduce the time it takes to generate and collaborate on documentation processes and get you to revenue and value faster.
Board Member
2021
Spark is a software platform designed for selling, marketing and managing new development real estate. Built for real estate developers, project marketing agencies, and brokerages, Spark provides total control and insight over the sales process while generating intelligent data and reporting. Our focus on user experience makes us simply the easiest and most efficient platform for project marketing and presale management. We work with builders and developers around the world, providing a software solution that pushes the new development industry forward into a digital era. For more information, visit our website: https://spark.re #realestate #newdevelopments #realestatesoftware #REsoftware
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Board Observer
2020
Cognota is the first and only LearnOps® platform for corporate Learning and Development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines L&D processes such as training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design allowing learning teams to work more efficiently and effectively while providing access to much-needed data and insights about their operations. ❤️Software to manage and streamline Learning & Development operations 🌐LearnOps community to share ideas with like-minded L&D professionals 💡Best practices/resources to stay ahead of learning operational challenges 👩Coaching from Chief Learning Officers to help you with L&D ops strategy This first-of-its-kind software allows customers to get better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate disparate tools they are using so they can make better, more strategic decisions about L&D investments and measure impact. For more information visit www.cognota.com. Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunity Join for free at LearnOps.com
Board Member
2020
Zenhub is a project management platform used by over 8000 software development teams to plan, track, and prioritize their work. Unlike other project management tools, Zenhub is purpose-built for teams to stay close to their codebase using native integrations. This eliminates data inaccuracy and makes it easier for collaboration across the organization. Something new is launching on Product Hunt on Thursday, March 9th! Keep an eye out!
Board Observer
2019
Founded in 2019, CharliAI (Charli) is a first-of-its-kind, AI-driven intelligent content management platform that tracks, organizes, understands, interprets, analyzes and automates business content enterprise-wide, unlocking knowledge, improving collaboration across teams, and streamlining operations. CharliAI provides businesses with a competitive advantage in today's digital world by reducing content chaos and manual effort, allowing workforces to focus on contributing their expertise. Today, Charli can integrate with over 600+ applications giving it broad appeal across industry sectors.
Investor
2019
Founded in 2019, CharliAI (Charli) is a first-of-its-kind, AI-driven intelligent content management platform that tracks, organizes, understands, interprets, analyzes and automates business content enterprise-wide, unlocking knowledge, improving collaboration across teams, and streamlining operations. CharliAI provides businesses with a competitive advantage in today's digital world by reducing content chaos and manual effort, allowing workforces to focus on contributing their expertise. Today, Charli can integrate with over 600+ applications giving it broad appeal across industry sectors.
Investor
2019
SkyWatch is on a mission to make Earth-observation data accessible to the world. Hundreds of trillions of pixels of our planet are captured from space every day. With new applications for this data being discovered constantly, the demand for satellite imagery across many industries is increasing. However, the current process for purchasing satellite imagery is extremely time-consuming and tedious. We experienced this problem first hand while working to predict crop yields by monitoring surface-level ozone movement. After weeks of trying to find the right data, we decided to come up with our own solution. Utilizing our past experience in building satellite data aggregation software, our team is developing EarthCache, a robust platform which allows users to discover and access the world’s remote sensing datasets. We are making it easier than ever to perform geospatial analysis by creating one source for the datasets used. Our goal is to become the leading provider of data and intelligence from space. Our team comprises of software developers, engineers, and armchair astrophysicists. We are also: global winners of the 2014 NASA International Space Apps Challenge; Google for Entrepreneurs alumni; Lead Organizer of NASA Space Apps Waterloo; members of the Canadian Space Commerce Association; members of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Time-Domain Astronomy; and founding supporters and directors of MaxQ, Canada’s first accelerator focused on space startups. Our company is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and providing a work environment that is free of discrimination and harassment. We strive to offer competitive salaries and compensation. We're also very flexible and open to filling the unique needs of our employees. Proud member of the Techstars Summer 2016 cohort. For more information about us, click back to our homepage: www.skywatch.co
Board Observer
2016
DarkVision Technologies Inc. is a BC-based tech company that has been disrupting the industrial imaging market since 2013. We have created the world’s most advanced acoustic-based imaging platform and are packaging it into multiple new product lines. Our rapidly growing team of experts from machine vision, medical imaging, aerospace design, and computer graphics have come together to revolutionize how industry quantifies and visualizes the integrity of critical assets. DarkVision’s first product line for tubular infrastructure inspection has been highly disruptive to the market; it has won multiple industry awards, been featured in top industry publications, and generated significant revenue. We are now scaling the technology to numerous industrial verticals and building a platform to become the dominant player in the asset integrity game. DarkVision’s proprietary technology captures the world’s largest ultrasound datasets by orders of magnitude. To do this, we design, build, and sell the entire solution ourselves. Our teams specialize in large sensor arrays, high-speed electronics, advanced ultrasound imaging techniques, 3D visualizations, and ML-based analytics software. DarkVision’s staff of Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Research Scientists develop cutting-edge technologies that blend science with real-world applications. Backed by Koch Industries, North America’s largest privately held company, DarkVision has begun scaling its Engineering, Sales, and Operations teams to meet the demand for both its current and upcoming products. Our head office is a brand new 52,000+ sqft facility in Vancouver and we have offices across Canada, USA, Europe, and the Middle East. We invite you to join our team for the exciting journey ahead as we become the global leader in industrial imaging.
Investor
2015
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world. It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Electrification, and Wind -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come. GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have the energy to change the world.
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2015
Bit Stew Systems was acquired by GE Digital. Please visit here to see what's new https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/2681277/
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2015
GaN Systems is the global leader in GaN power semiconductors with the largest portfolio of transistors that uniquely address the needs of today’s most demanding industries including data center servers, renewable energy systems, automotive, industrial motors and consumer electronics. As a market-leading innovator, GaN Systems makes possible the design of smaller, lower cost, more efficient power systems. The company’s award-winning products provide system design opportunities free from the limitations of yesterday’s silicon. By changing the rules of transistor performance, GaN Systems is enabling power conversion companies to revolutionize their industries and transform the world. For more information, please visit: www.gansystems.com
Investor
2015
At GE Digital, our focus is clear: delivering software that accelerates a new era of energy. We deliver software that accelerates electrification and decarbonization across the energy ecosystem - from how power is created, to how it is orchestrated, to how it is consumed. Using data, we transform how our customers solve their toughest challenges. By improving the energy ecosystem to be more intelligent and efficient, we’re helping create reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy for all. GE Digital delivers software that: Reduces emissions & waste today through efficiency insights Orchestrates a secure, clean energy grid Accelerates the transition to zero- and low-carbon energy resources THE ENERGY TO CHANGE THE WORLD
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2025
Board Observer
2025
Foundation is developing the future of general purpose robotics with the goal to address the labor shortage. Our mission is to create advanced robots that can operate in complex environments, reducing human risk in conflict zones and enhancing efficiency in labor-intensive industries.
2023
Venture Partner
Apr 2023
Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. The team is made up of investors, engineers and scientists who use data to model venture-backed private companies. The San Francisco-based firm has approximately $1.7 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken, Instabase, Relativity Space, and Shiprocket. To learn more, visit tribecap.co.
Founder & Managing Partner
Feb 2023
First believers in founders shaping the AI Frontier. Were thesis-driven and product-first to empower founders to re-architect how to solve problems in radically new ways.
Founder
Jan 2023
In stealth mode
Investor
2023
Zyphra is a full-stack AGI company based in San Francisco, California
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