Adam Zeplain
Managing Partner at mark vc
Adam Zeplain
Managing Partner at mark vc
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder + Managing Partner
2016 - Current
Advisory Council
2018
Andela provides companies with access to the top 1% of global tech talent. We identify high-potential developers on the African continent, shape them into world-class technical leaders, and pair them with companies as full-time, distributed team members. Accelerate your product roadmap while minimizing time spent interviewing, on-boarding, and training new hires. Andela is backed by investors including Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV, Spark Capital, Omidyar Network, Susa Ventures, Steve Case, Founder Collective, Learn Capital and more. Learn more about us at www.andela.com.
Andela's mission is to connect brilliance with opportunity.
Raised $381,005,800.00 from Generation Investment Management, Spark Capital, Golden Palm Investments, Whale Rock Capital Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Sweetwater Capital Partners.
Founding Strategic Advisor
2019
Ostro is a health platform that personalized engagement solutions for life sciences.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from RRE Ventures, Bling Capital, Byers Capital, Greycroft, Caffeinated Capital, Trust Ventures, Founders Fund and Susa Ventures.
Advisor
2016
We are building the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world.
Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Raised $132,300,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Dave Liu, Vopak, Paul Albright, Scott Stephenson, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures, Richard Braddock, Alumni Ventures, Prologis Ventures and Zachary Karabell.
Advisor
2019
Reintroducing people to plants 🌱
Advisor
2018
SPOT is the solution to the complicated, confusing, and expensive process to acquire life insurance. For the first time consumers will have the ability to purchase short term insurance for a nominal fee through SPOT's simple mobile application for 100's of activities ranging from scuba diving, skydiving, surfing, etc...
Spot Insurance features injury insurance designed to protect against unexpected medical expenses.
Raised $58,399,985.00 from Ensemble VC, Sozo Ventures, RiverPark Ventures and Habitat Partners.
Limited Partner
2016
CAVU Venture Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm focused on better-for-you branded consumer products companies with a concentration in Food and Beverage. Other areas of focus include Pet, Personal Care & Beauty, Apparel, Retail and Household Products. CAVU's Portfolio Includes | Bai (Acq. Dr. Pepper Snapple), Health-Ade Kombucha, High Brew Coffee, Chef's Cut Beef Jerkey, Thrive Market, WTRMLN Water, Nulo Pet Food, Kite Hill, and many others. CAVU currently has offices and additional personnel in Austin, New York and Los Angeles.
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Build Acquisition Corp., led by Lanham Napier, Zeynep Young and Tanner Cerand as well as board members Noam Ohana, Owen Van Natta and James C. Weaver, is a newly incorporated blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses in the software and technology-enabled services industries in North America.
Build Acquisition is a blank check company focusing on companies in the fast-growing universe of software and technology-enabled services.
Founding Strategic Advisor
2018 - 2023
Prima is an award-winning, science-backed whole body wellness brand making potent plant therapeutic skincare, body care and supplements.
Raised $12,475,000.00 from H Venture Partners, Purple Arch Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Emerald Health Therapeutics, Lerer Hippeau, Ben Lamm, Greycroft, Alumni Ventures, Defy.vc and Adam Zeplain.
Board of Advisors
2016 - 2022
Soma Capital is an early stage YC focused Venture Firm run by Aneel Ranadive. I served as an Advisor on Fund I.
Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.
Education
B.A. Communication
2006 - 2010