Sue Marks

Serial Entrepreneur, Board Member, Investor, Tony Award Winning Broadway Producer, Passionate about AI, Frontier/Deep Tech and my ranch in the Hill Country. Austin & Central TX Vistage Chair.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
6
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21y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Jan 2023
Wootz is an advanced material solutions company that aims to answer the demand of the future with next-gen carbon antennas and sensors. From RFID tags to radar systems for aerospace, Wootz is jumpstarting the future with a material that connects, conducts, and electrifies like nothing before. Our next-gen carbon material, Vantium, redefines performance by augmenting and replacing metals with a green alternative. Vantium boasts an unparalleled combination of high-performance properties that sets it apart from any other known material. We welcome any inquiries on our products or potential partnerships. We are actively seeking new partners to develop novel antennas, RF components, EMI shielding, and sensors. Please visit our website (wootznano.com) for more information on our products and technology.
Board Member
Oct 2020
yWhales is the largest, exclusive, global leadership community aimed at shaping the business of Web3. We help members expand their perspectives, accelerate their progress, and seize the monumental opportunity in front of us to create a better human experience. This is driven by our 6 divisions: • Enterprises - Central HQ for all staff, equity, and IP • Communities - Outreach, collaboration, and educational hub • Ventures – Due diligence, value creation, and rapid capital deployment on Web3 opportunities • Solutions - Web3 consulting, strategic planning, and onboarding • Labs - Building and fostering business innovation to connect the real and digital world • FinRamp (in development) - Conduit for onboarding TradFi to DeFi focused on compliance, security, and regulation. Our dedicated team is currently focused on developing solutions in the enterprise blockchain space, as well as creating B2B/B2E metaverse operating systems through yWhales Labs. Additionally, the company is working on building a strong foundation to support Ventures and is consistently dedicated to educating and collaborating with communities to advance the adoption of Web3 technologies. Follow our podcasts on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6o_Ldf9Oc1QKVwrEF7ylBg
Board Member
Jan 2018
Claro Analytics is WilsonHCGs talent intelligence and labor market analytics platform. It helps organizations across the globe make smarter, more strategic talent decisions. With its Discovery, Analytics, Talent Mobility and Reports modules, the Claro platform provides real-time insights about open jobs and talent availability while its predictive models help organizations anticipate future talent needs so talent and HR leaders can hire better talent, faster. Claro’s Job Seeking Sonar® Chrome extension also helps to accelerate time-to-fill by identifying talent profiles showing job-seeking behavior, so users can reach out before their competitors.
Founder & Board Member
2005
Talent is the currency of now. Cielo is the world’s leading Talent Acquisition Partner, helping companies across the globe stay ahead in the race for talent with fresh TA strategies & RPO solutions. Don’t just take it from us: clients and analysts regularly recognize us as a Leader on: HRO Today’s RPO Baker’s Dozen list, Everest Group’s RPO PEAK Matrix, NelsonHall’s NEAT vendor evaluation for RPO & Total Talent. We’re leading the market by delivering better talent experiences, for everyone.
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2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
SHINE Technologies accelerates a practical, incremental four-phase pathway to clean, abundant fusion energy, starting with using fusion technology to solve today’s problems in medicine, manufacturing, energy, and beyond. #SHINETogether #FusionTechnology
2023
Partner
Oct 2023
Avanzará is a coaching and consulting company with a vision to prepare todays leaders for tomorrows world. The company focus is business acceleration by aiding CEOs, owners, and leaders who aspire to scale their business but are uncertain about how to accomplish their goals. Avanzara believes that both strategy—doing the right things, and execution—doing those things right, are essential for reaching ones goals. To facilitate this, they offer a technology-enabled, human-curated platform that includes thought leadership research, content development, and brand/market position growth. Avanzara Ascent, a network and community for leaders, is also incorporated into their subscription services.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Wootz is an advanced material solutions company that aims to answer the demand of the future with next-gen carbon antennas and sensors. From RFID tags to radar systems for aerospace, Wootz is jumpstarting the future with a material that connects, conducts, and electrifies like nothing before. Our next-gen carbon material, Vantium, redefines performance by augmenting and replacing metals with a green alternative. Vantium boasts an unparalleled combination of high-performance properties that sets it apart from any other known material. We welcome any inquiries on our products or potential partnerships. We are actively seeking new partners to develop novel antennas, RF components, EMI shielding, and sensors. Please visit our website (wootznano.com) for more information on our products and technology.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Salary.com® remains the technology leader in providing employee compensation data, software, and services to enterprises, small businesses, and individuals. Our enterprise software helps companies manage their compensation expenditures with real-time, decision-ready data and analytical tools. The Salary.com website is one of the most widely recognized destinations for those seeking reliable information about employee pay levels and compensation-related best practices, trends, and policies. The Salary.com Team have decades of experience in the compensation industry. It’s all we do. We build and enhance cloud-based software around our deep compensation domain knowledge to help our customers win the war for talent by simplifying the connections between people and pay. Salary.coms proven technology is integrated with actionable data and content, empowering customers to make the best decisions about pay and help them to attract, motivate, reward and retain top performers. For more information, visit www.salary.com.
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
yWhales is the largest, exclusive, global leadership community aimed at shaping the business of Web3. We help members expand their perspectives, accelerate their progress, and seize the monumental opportunity in front of us to create a better human experience. This is driven by our 6 divisions: • Enterprises - Central HQ for all staff, equity, and IP • Communities - Outreach, collaboration, and educational hub • Ventures – Due diligence, value creation, and rapid capital deployment on Web3 opportunities • Solutions - Web3 consulting, strategic planning, and onboarding • Labs - Building and fostering business innovation to connect the real and digital world • FinRamp (in development) - Conduit for onboarding TradFi to DeFi focused on compliance, security, and regulation. Our dedicated team is currently focused on developing solutions in the enterprise blockchain space, as well as creating B2B/B2E metaverse operating systems through yWhales Labs. Additionally, the company is working on building a strong foundation to support Ventures and is consistently dedicated to educating and collaborating with communities to advance the adoption of Web3 technologies. Follow our podcasts on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6o_Ldf9Oc1QKVwrEF7ylBg
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