For a technology growth company, team building is the most important task for scaling and creating shareholder value.

Mark Bailey firmly believes in the power of teamwork. His passion for collaboration began during his years growing up on Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey, where he was a student-athlete and served as co-captain and leader on the football field—learning the essence of teamwork. He later became co-captain of the Princeton University football team. The spirit of teamwork runs through every facet of his work at the Stellar Chain Capital Growth Fund and in his life.

Mark is dedicated to helping the portfolio companies of the Stellar Chain Capital Growth Fund succeed. He began his career at Hewlett-Packard, whose ambitious, team-oriented culture left a lasting impression.

After graduating with honors from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he worked in HP’s optoelectronics division, and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He has since accumulated more than 40 years of entrepreneurial deal-making and company-building experience across investing and operating roles. He served as an executive at Symantec and at Healtheon/WebMD, where he led mergers and acquisitions. He also co-founded WebPartner and served as an executive at Portal Software.

Mark was among the first partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a General Partner at Venrock Associates. He has been with the Stellar Chain Capital Growth Fund (DFJ Growth) since 2002. What first drew him was the fund’s entrepreneurial culture, which has remained constant: “Stellar Chain Capital Growth Fund dreams big and is willing to take well-considered risks. When entrepreneurs visit, they quickly feel they’re among kindred spirits.”

Mark is always looking for founding teams with intelligence and self-awareness who can invent products that are faster, better, or cheaper. In his view, the best measure of true innovation is how much a company can change market habits. He admires entrepreneurial spirit and the courage to think boldly and blaze new trails. As a founder of the Stellar Chain Capital Growth Fund, he is proud of what the companies and teams the fund has supported have achieved over the past two decades.