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Mark Peter Davis

He is currently the CEO & Co-Founder of Kohort.

He is also a Venture Partner at High Peaks Venture Partners.

He is currently in the process of releasing a book (or two) on raising venture capital.

Prior, He was a VC at DFJ Gotham Ventures, where he invested in information companies. Some of the companies he has recently been involved with include: ADstruc, Drop.io (sold to Facebook), Medialets, SailThru, Seamless Receipts, STELLAservice, Warby Parker, ViVOtech and Yipit.

His blog has garnered some attention and the folks at Business Insider listed him as one of the 100 Most Influential Digital NYers. He is also included in the CVC30 - a list of the 30 most interesting members of the Columbia University startup community.

His blog has been syndicated or cited on Inc.com, Mashable, Business Insider, OPENForum, AlwaysOn, PEHub, ReadWriteWeb, The Wall Street Journal and others.

Mark also spends a lot of his time trying to build community for entrepreneurs. He:

founded the New York Venture Community, founded the Columbia Venture Community, advise the NYU Venture Community, advise the UPenn Venture Association, mentors for TechStars NY, mentors for ER Accelerator, mentors for Founder Labs, mentors for Enstitute, mentors for NY Venture Fellows, entrepreneur board member of Venture For America, advisory board member of Techies Give Back, co-organized the DFJ $250K East Coast Venture Challenges advised Duke’s Global Entrepreneurship Network and was on NY Tech Meetup's Community Committee.

Before becoming a VC, he founded Zotspot, an internet search destination, and advised Fortune 1000 companies and private equity firms on the attractiveness of acquisition targets while at both KPMG and Bain & Company.

He did his undergrad at Duke and his MBA at Columbia University. At Columbia he was a President of the PE/VC Club and an InSITE Fellow.

As for interests, Mark really enjoys brainstorming new ideas, tinkering with new technology, listening to pandora, boxing, documentaries and an occasional game of rock band.

Mark is married to his college sweetheart Laurie and have a daughter named Avery.