Friday at The DEN
Join us for a rare conversation on the latest in startup financing with angel investor
Mark Bernfeld ’78 and
venture capitalist Jeff Crowe ’78, two of Dartmouth’s most successful startup investors.
Friday, 6 November at 3:00pm
@ The DEN Innovation Center
4 Currier Place, Hanover
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(refreshments provided)
Mark Bernfeld D'78
Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
Mark Bernfeld D'78 is an experienced entrepreneur and angel investor with a commitment to environmentally and socially responsible businesses. Mark founded Tamarack Technologies in 1993 with the vision of meeting our growing need to conserve energy and improve air quality in our homes. He remains owner and Board Chairman, where he continues to advocate for Tamarack's mission to promote the reemergence of home cooling using outdoor air, and to make accessible to homeowners sensible solutions to the problem of unhealthy indoor air. As a result Tamarack is widely recognized for quality and innovation in providing ventilation solutions for the air we live in.
Mark is a member in and active angel investor with Launchpad Venture Group, which provides funding and advice to early-stage companies, and with Clean Energy Venture Group, which invests in sustainable technologies and business execution models that provide attractive risk-adjusted returns and contribute toward mitigating climate disruption. He serves on the Board of Pearl's Premium Lawn Seed, provider of environmentally friendly, low maintenance grass seed. He is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University, and has mentored many start-ups through programs at MassChallenge, Dartmouth College, and other college/university organizations. Mark has 35 years of experience in the insurance industry, with diverse roles from consultant to broker to insurance company executive, and he also oversees a family real estate business.
Mark is a Board member at Community Legal Services and Counseling Center (CLSACC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts based nonprofit that provides free legal assistance and affordable psychological counseling to help combat the effects of poverty and violence. He is also on the Alumni Board of Dragon Senior Honor Society at Dartmouth College. Mark received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Mathematics from Dartmouth College.
Jeff Crowe D'78
Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Jeff Crowe D'78 joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2004 and became managing partner in 2013. Jeff focuses on investments in the internet, consumer, and software arenas. In 2014, Jeff was named to the Forbes Midas List of tech's top investors. He currently serves on the boards of public companies Lending Club (NYSE: LC) and RetailMeNot (NASDAQ: SALE) and private companies Badgeville, Extole, Glint, HoneyBook, Madison Reed, Owler, and Turn.
Jeff is a board observer at Minted and is responsible for Norwest's investments in Jet, Spotify, and Uber. Jeff's past investments include AdChina (acquired by Alibaba), Admeld (acquired by Google), deCarta (acquired by Uber), Jigsaw (acquired by Salesforce.com), Nano-Tex (acquired by Crypton, Inc.), The Echo Nest (acquired by Spotify), true[X] media (acquired by 21st Century Fox), Tuvox (acquired by West Interactive), and he was a board observer at Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM). Prior to Norwest, Jeff served as President, COO and board member of DoveBid, Inc., a privately held business auction firm, which expanded during his tenure via internal growth and acquisition from a $10M revenue run rate to a $120M revenue run rate with 400 employees. Jeff holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College.
Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
Mark Bernfeld D'78 is an experienced entrepreneur and angel investor with a commitment to environmentally and socially responsible businesses. Mark founded Tamarack Technologies in 1993 with the vision of meeting our growing need to conserve energy and improve air quality in our homes. He remains owner and Board Chairman, where he continues to advocate for Tamarack's mission to promote the reemergence of home cooling using outdoor air, and to make accessible to homeowners sensible solutions to the problem of unhealthy indoor air. As a result Tamarack is widely recognized for quality and innovation in providing ventilation solutions for the air we live in.
Mark is a member in and active angel investor with Launchpad Venture Group, which provides funding and advice to early-stage companies, and with Clean Energy Venture Group, which invests in sustainable technologies and business execution models that provide attractive risk-adjusted returns and contribute toward mitigating climate disruption. He serves on the Board of Pearl's Premium Lawn Seed, provider of environmentally friendly, low maintenance grass seed. He is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University, and has mentored many start-ups through programs at MassChallenge, Dartmouth College, and other college/university organizations. Mark has 35 years of experience in the insurance industry, with diverse roles from consultant to broker to insurance company executive, and he also oversees a family real estate business.
Mark is a Board member at Community Legal Services and Counseling Center (CLSACC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts based nonprofit that provides free legal assistance and affordable psychological counseling to help combat the effects of poverty and violence. He is also on the Alumni Board of Dragon Senior Honor Society at Dartmouth College. Mark received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Mathematics from Dartmouth College.
Jeff Crowe D'78
Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Jeff Crowe D'78 joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2004 and became managing partner in 2013. Jeff focuses on investments in the internet, consumer, and software arenas. In 2014, Jeff was named to the Forbes Midas List of tech's top investors. He currently serves on the boards of public companies Lending Club (NYSE: LC) and RetailMeNot (NASDAQ: SALE) and private companies Badgeville, Extole, Glint, HoneyBook, Madison Reed, Owler, and Turn.
Jeff is a board observer at Minted and is responsible for Norwest's investments in Jet, Spotify, and Uber. Jeff's past investments include AdChina (acquired by Alibaba), Admeld (acquired by Google), deCarta (acquired by Uber), Jigsaw (acquired by Salesforce.com), Nano-Tex (acquired by Crypton, Inc.), The Echo Nest (acquired by Spotify), true[X] media (acquired by 21st Century Fox), Tuvox (acquired by West Interactive), and he was a board observer at Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM). Prior to Norwest, Jeff served as President, COO and board member of DoveBid, Inc., a privately held business auction firm, which expanded during his tenure via internal growth and acquisition from a $10M revenue run rate to a $120M revenue run rate with 400 employees. Jeff holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College.