Mark Menell

CEO, Silicon Foundry | Corporate Innovation & Venture Advisory

📍 Burlingame, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
2017
The Bouqs Company is an online flower retailer founded by John Tabis and Juan Pablo Montúfar that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms to doorsteps nationwide. Tabis, a brand and strategy executive formerly with Disney, and Montúfar, a third-generation farmer, started The Bouqs Company in November 2012 to radically disrupt the $100B global floral industry through a modern brand, responsibly-sourced flowers and a vertically-integrated supply chain. Headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA, The Bouqs Company connects farms and florists with consumers, and disrupts the traditional supply chain by eliminating unnecessary stops along the way. In turn, this model enables a superior product and redefines the experience and economics for both consumers and producers alike.
mid stageRetail
Board Member
2015
FreedomPop is a global telecommunications company delivering free wireless internet and free mobile phone service around the world. FreedomPop was founded in 2011 with a stated goal to eliminate the digital divide and provide free wireless broadband internet access to everyone, everywhere. We're looking for more great people to join our team so if you're excited about helping our cause, take a look at the open positions below and send your resume to jobs@freedompop.com with the position name in subject line: - senior front end developer - business intelligence data architect - html designer - direct response email marketing manager - business intelligence analyst
Board Member
2010
RockYou is an interactive media and entertainment company amplifying the authentic voice of multicultural millennials. Wrapped around RockYou’s video network which reaches 75 million monthly viewers, developed and optimized by publishers of leading social media apps, RockYou Media provides brands and publishers with hyper-engaging content for a multicultural audience. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Chicago and New York.
Experience · 11 entries
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2021
Partner
Sep 2021
Silicon Foundry is an innovation advisory firm. We work with leading corporations and startups to catalyze opportunities and push the frontier of whats possible. Our Members include a diverse set of the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries including British Petroleum, Deutsche Telekom, Dubai International Finance Centre, Estée Lauder, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, NatWest, Southwest Airlines and UPS Ventures.
2017
Board Member
2017
The Bouqs Company is an online flower retailer founded by John Tabis and Juan Pablo Montúfar that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms to doorsteps nationwide. Tabis, a brand and strategy executive formerly with Disney, and Montúfar, a third-generation farmer, started The Bouqs Company in November 2012 to radically disrupt the $100B global floral industry through a modern brand, responsibly-sourced flowers and a vertically-integrated supply chain. Headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA, The Bouqs Company connects farms and florists with consumers, and disrupts the traditional supply chain by eliminating unnecessary stops along the way. In turn, this model enables a superior product and redefines the experience and economics for both consumers and producers alike.
mid stageRetail
2015
Board Member
2015
FreedomPop is a global telecommunications company delivering free wireless internet and free mobile phone service around the world. FreedomPop was founded in 2011 with a stated goal to eliminate the digital divide and provide free wireless broadband internet access to everyone, everywhere. We're looking for more great people to join our team so if you're excited about helping our cause, take a look at the open positions below and send your resume to jobs@freedompop.com with the position name in subject line: - senior front end developer - business intelligence data architect - html designer - direct response email marketing manager - business intelligence analyst
2014
General Partner
May 2014
Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. We are a team made up of independent thinkers. We are unconstrained by hype, trend or fixed ways of working. We believe in the power of alliance in action, working together and side-by-side with the founders we back, in the shared pursuit of success. We bring together capital, operational experience and strategic support for the entrepreneurs we back from seed through to growth stage. Born in San Francisco 40 years ago, today we manage close to €3 billion in assets for a current portfolio of 220 companies in 40 countries across four continents.
2010
Advisor
2010
Based in San Francisco, Cendana Capital invests in very early stage VC funds globally.
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