Mark is the Managing Partner of Zenture Capital. Mark started his venture career as a corporate venture investor and had been on the investment team at DTE Energy Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Gibraltar Ventures (Prudential), and Propel(x). Mark was a systems and controls engineer at United Technologies (now Raytheon) and Praxair (now Linde) and worked on the design and development of fuel cell and microturbine based power + combined heating and cooling systems, geothermal power plants, and model predictive control of industrial gas pipeline and cryogenic separation plants. Mark was trained as a Chemical Engineer at the Louisiana State University and the University of South Florida. He also received a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. Mark is based in Hartford CT.
Lisheng is a partner of Zenture Capital. Lisheng co-founded Propel(x) and MIT Alumni Angels. He started his career as a software engineer at the inception of Microsoft China. He had extensive portfolio and risk management experience at Wells Fargo. He received a Master's degree from MIT and a BS from Fudan University. Lisheng is based in San Francisco Bay Area.
Mark and Lisheng have worked together since 2016 before starting Zenture Capital. Collectively we had invested in A123 Systems, Aperio, Avails Medical, BlockApps, Brelyon, Cage Bio, Device42, Digital Currency Group, Gather AI, InsightFinder, Liatris, Medcura, Mesentech, P2 Science, Probius, ProteoWise, Riven, SkyCool, WRM, and Zenflow.