Co-Founder + Managing Partner

Adam Zeplain is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of mark vc, based in Austin.

He specializes in early-stage investments in areas such as security & defense, healthcare technology, consumer technology, and enterprise SaaS.

Adam has been investing in startups for over a decade. He is known for adding value to his portfolio companies and serving on numerous advisory boards, including Andela, Ostro (formerly RxDefine) data.world, Prima, and Soma Capital. Adam strives to be the most valuable investor on the cap tables of his portfolio companies. Some of his most notable investments include: Andela, Anduril, Crowdstrike, Dragos, Reddit, Ring, Sana Benefits, and ZenBusiness.

Co-Founder

Andy Bursten has had a long career building and operating technology companies. From inception, he served as Chairman of CyrusOne, an outsourced data center service provider. In 2007, he helped lead the sale of the company to a PE firm ABRY Partners.

Prior to CyrusOne, he was Co-Founder + President of Coastal Telephone Company, a long-distance telecommunications company. Through his leadership, Coastal Telephone Company expanded from a Texas based company to servicing over 100,000 customers in 19 states. In 1999, Coastal Telephone Company was sold to Eclipse Telecommunications, a subsidiary of IXC Communications (Nasdaq: IIXC).

Andy has been active in and served on many for profit and non-profit boards including Summer Energy Holding, The Emery Weiner School, Holocaust Museum Houston, The Alley Theater, Bellaire Little League, The Fay School, Congregation Emanu El, and The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center.

Partner, Operations & Strategy

Cody runs all day-to-day fund operations and works closely with Adam on investment decisions and fund strategy. He also advises mark vc’s incubated companies.

Prior to joining mark vc, Cody was the Operating Partner (North America) at BBRC Private Equity and the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at BBRC Labs within Australian entrepreneur Brett Blundy’s family office, focusing on investments and incubations in the consumer products space.

Cody was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at PHD Ventures Investments, the private personal investment and advisory portfolio of Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE). Cody co-founded PHD Ventures’ “Strike Force” Incubator program. Bold Capital Partners, a $500m+ VC fund, was started out of this program.