Second Avenue Partners

HealthX Ventures

Venture FundMadison, United States

Mr. Mark Bakken serves as Managing Partner at HealthX Ventures. He founded Bedrock Managed Services & Consulting. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. He also serves as advisor at Health Enterprise Partners. The epitome of an entrepreneur, he has seen the peaks and valleys of starting, operating and assuming the risks of a new venture. He's come up against payroll, had a few bad hires and even swept the floors early on. Collectively, his companies have done over $360 million in sales, raised more than $38 million in venture capital, and he has successfully bought and/or sold 8 companies. Among his companies is Nordic Consulting, the industry leader in EHR consulting services to organizations using Epic. As CEO, Mark grew Nordic to a #1 ranking in KLAS, where it has been since 2012. Nordic now has over 400 consultants working across 44 states. In 2014, the company was recognized as the 46th fastest growing company in the U.S. Prior to Nordic, Mark started and grew Goliath Networks to be #97 on the Inc. 500 fastest-growing companies list. He sold that company in 2002. He's worked with Eric Schmidt on Novell's Partner Advisory, and was also was asked by Bill Gates to serve on Microsoft's first partner Advisory Council, which he did from 2001-2007. A Badger at heart, Mark grew up in the Milwaukee area before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds a degree in computer science. He serves as board member at Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce.

Bay Partners

Venture FundSan Francisco, United States

Mr. Dempsey serves as a Managing General Partner at Bay. He serves as Board Member at Crowdynews. He is a Board Member at Enphase Energy. Through cycles of change, Neal’s investment thesis has been to find entrepreneurs with domain expertise and the fine art of listening. At the end of the day, customers decide whether startups will succeed or not and without listening to customers, entrepreneurs are seldom successful. This thesis has served him well through investments in category creating companies like Brocade, Informatica and Shiva. Neal balances the stresses of his workload by giving back to the community. In addition to serving on over a dozen boards of Bay portifolio companies, he also serves on the Board of EMQ Children and Family Services (a.k.a. Eastfield Ming Quong). Neal’s leadership helped establish the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at the University of Washington Business School. Neal made the largest gift ever from an alumnus to the University of Washington. Last but not least, Neal is a passionate college sports fan. He is very actively involved with The University of Washington basketball and football programs. To support these athletic programs at his alma mater, Neal sponsored the Dempsey Indoor Training Stadium at the University of Washington. He serves as a Board Member at BoardVantage. He also serves as a board member of Apigee. He is also a Board Member at International Spine & Orthopedic Institute.

BlueRun Ventures

Venture FundMenlo Park, United States

Mr. Jonathan Ebinger serves as General Partner at BlueRun Ventures. He was also a Board Member at SaveUp. He focuses on communications, social commerce, and mobility opportunities. He also serves as Board Member at Coupa and Kabbage. His experiences include Vice President of Marketing at Qwest Communications, and senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. In addition, Jonathan founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, an Internet shopping service. He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.

BootstrapLabs

Venture FundSan Francisco, United States

BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm that taps into the entrepreneurs globally at an early stage of their startups to build global companies from Silicon Valley. The firm employ provides support and advise startup entrepreneurs to help them execute to the best of their ability and tap into the benefits of Silicon Valley. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SV Latam Capital

Venture FundUnited States

SV Latam Capital believes that everyone has a fundamental right to turn an idea into an economic reality, regardless of who you are or where you are from, with zero barriers in the way. Its founder and managing partner, Consuelo Valverde, has launched multiple successful science and tech companies and now develops developing Latin-American ecommerce and tech through venture capital.

Compound

Venture FundNew York, United States

Compound Ventures is a New York, New York based venture capital firm that invests in start-up and early stage technology companies. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology, e-commerce, financial technology, mobile, big data, media, retail and technology sectors.