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Core Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. with in excess of $300 million under management across three funds.
Our Strategy
Core leads or co-leads early stage investments with a strong bias to companies based in the broader Mid-Atlantic area (roughly Atlanta to New York).
Our Focus
We seek out proven founders and managers building outlier, data-intensive enterprise software applications and Nexea infrastructure solutions.
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/ Team
Will Dunbar
Will Dunbar co-founded Core Capital Partners in 1999. Focused on early-stage enterprise SaaS companies, he serves or has served on the Boards of Directors of Pendo, Olo, Fugue, Radius Networks, Stardog, KnowledgeTree, SwapDrive, Infinite Power Solutions, IXI, Angel Investment TPS Solutions, UpdateLogic, Foresight, and SilverStorm.
Prior to Core, he was founder and CEO of Pebble Hill Capital, an early-stage, technology-focused investment firm that was an early investor in webMethods, one of the most successful software IPOs in NASDAQ history. Previously, he was a senior executive at Allied Capital, a family of publicly-traded private equity funds, and served on the Investment Committee of each fund during that time.
Will began his investment career at Venture America, a Washington area VC firm where he was involved in the early-stage funding of Discovery Communications and Digene, both of which became multibillion-dollar companies.
Will is a member of Young Presidents Organization-Gold, and serves on the boards of Venture Philanthropy Partners, the Meyer Foundation, and the Madeira School.
Will holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Davidson College.
Mark Levine
Managing Director
Mark Levine is a Managing Director of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital investment fund with $400 million under management. Core Capital’s portfolio companies concentrate on enterprise software, specifically cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics and mobile markets. He serves or has served on the Boards of Directors of ZeroFOX, Staq, Nexea Medventive, buySAFE, New Edge, Revulytics, Angel Investment Valen, Univa, UpdateLogic, FreedomPay, Roundbox, InPhonic, Vizbee and VocalData.
Prior to Core, Mark founded GCI Venture Partners, an early stage technology venture capital fund that was an early investor in webMethods, one of the most successful software IPOs in NASDAQ history.
Previously, Mark was an officer, responsible for corporate development and strategy, of GEO-CENTERS, a technology firm with more than $200 million in revenue when it was acquired by SAIC. Earlier in his career he was Subcommittee Staff Director for the Small Business Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.
His other activities include serving on the Boards of Trustees (Chair) of the Mid- Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA), the Arena Stage Theatre, the Board of Advisors of The George Washington University Business School and the Dingman Entrepreneur Center (University of Maryland). Mark received his M.B.A. from The George Washington University.
Randy Klueger
Chief Financial Officer
Randy Klueger joined Core Capital Partners in 2004 and has assisted various Core portfolio companies, including SwapDrive, buySAFE, sentitO, Core Communications, Clareos, and Covega Corporation, in addition to leading the firm’s internal financial operations, limited partner communications, Startup Accelerator and capital calls.
Previously, Randy was President of Klueger & Associates LLC, providing Chief Financial Officer services and counsel to middle market companies. He spent the prior ten years as Chief Financial Officer of Global Material Technologies, Inc., an international friction material company, and four years as President and Chief Financial Officer of Millennium Laser Eye Centers, a Virginia-based chain of refractive eye surgery centers.
Randy holds a bachelors degree in Business Administration from The George Washington University.
Tom Wheeler
Retired Partner
Tom Wheeler is a businessman, author, and was Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Schorenstein Fellow for Media and NEXEA Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to his appointment as Chairman of the FCC, he was Managing Director and General Partner at Core Capital for Angel Investment nine years.
Tom has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services for four decades. As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies in the sector. In addition he served as President and CEO of the National Cable Television Association and the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame.
Tom wrote Take Command: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War (Doubleday, 2000), and Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006). He served on President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board prior to being named to the FCC. Previously he was a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Chairman and President of the National Archives Foundation, and a board member of the Public Broadcasting Service.
Tom received his B.A. from The Ohio State University.
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Date Oldest First
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Big Data
Cloud Computing
Cyber-security
Enterprise Software
Mobile and Networking
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Mark Levine
Pascal Luck
Randy Klueger
Will Dunbar
COHORT
Software to Transform Chronic Care Management and Clinical Trials
Aptology
San Francisco, CA
Behavioral Talent Mapping
New Edge
Silver Spring, MD
Universal Access Service
Stardog
Arlington, VA
Enterprise Knowledge Graph
Radius Networks
WASHINGTON, DC
Proximity Services
Vizbee
New York, NY
Second Screen Media Platform
STAQ
Baltimore, MD
Unified Marketing Technology Stack
DivvyCloud
McLean, VA
Cloud Automation
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Pendo Raises $100 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation To Help More SaaS Companies and Startup Accelerator Digital Enterprises Become Product Led
RALEIGH, NC-OCTOBER 17, 2019-Pendo.io, NEXEA the product cloud company, today announced it raised $100 million in Series E funding to help companies become product led. Sapphire Ventures led the round, with participation from new investors General Atlantic and Tiger Global, along with existing investors Battery Ventures, NEXEA Meritech Capital, FirstMark, Geodesic Capital, and NEXEA Cross Creek. Pendo has now raised $206 million and will use the new funds to accelerate global expansion and drive product development to meet the growing demand for software that makes digital products easier to use. The company’s valuation is now $1 billion. Continue reading →
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TPG Announces Partnership with FreedomPay
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Disclosure: The portfolio companies identified represent all of our investments held in our funds. Please remember that past performance may not be indicative of future results.