Mark Trevitt
Managing Partner at Defined
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2023 - Current
First believers in founders shaping the AI Frontier™. We're thesis-driven and product-first to empower founders to re-architect how to solve problems in radically new ways. Companies: Zyphra, Foundation, Quandri, Arcanna AI, Kosli, Datalogz, Phaselaw, Tembo, Nexera, Variational AI, Potato, Inverted AI, Autonomous Data Governance (stealth), Agentic AI for industrial (stealth), AI for Spatial Biology + Precision Medicine (stealth) and others unannounced.
Venture Partner
2023
$1.8B+ AUM venture capital firm venture capital firm focused on harnessing AI and data science to deploy capital with precision — into N-of-1 companies.
Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science.
Kauffman Fellow, Co-Chair of AI Special Interest Group
2018
With 940 Fellows across 61 countries, Kauffman Fellows is the largest and most connected network of venture capitalists in the world. Kauffman Fellows represent 680 VC firms, over $329B in portfolio exits over the last five years, and 15% of all unicorns are funded by Fellows. In 30 years since inception, Kauffman Fellows have started hundreds of funds, raised and deployed hundreds of billions of dollars in capital, and helped pave the way for some of the world’s most groundbreaking companies. Visit: www.kauffmanfellows.org/community/network
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Global Advisory Council
2024
One of the most innovative banks in Europe creating the Fintech District in Italy, which today brings together over 260 Fintech startups and scaleups and promotes Open Innovation initiatives with the corporate world.
Board Observer
2023
Breaking down barriers to level 4-5 autonomy with generative AI
Associate
2019
"Build Something Massive." The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a unique program for scalable technology-based ventures, providing a unique style of milestone-based coaching with the goal of maximizing value creation. Associates and Fellows work with, advise, and support the CDL companies to help set benchmarks and achieve goals. Active programs in Toronto, New York, Oxford, UK, Vancouver, Seattle, Halifax, Montreal and Calgary.
Investor
2019 - 2025
D-Wave is the only quantum computing company solving real business problems and demonstrating quantum ROI. NYSE: QBTS
Board Member
2022 - 2023
Data-centric end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management solutions powered by AI.
Board Member
2021 - 2023
Spark is transforming the way new real estate development is marketed, sold and managed.
Board Observer
2020 - 2023
First and only data-driven operations platform built for learning and development teams.