Mark Gorenberg

Founder & Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners · Joined 2013

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Biography

Mark Gorenberg spent three decades in venture capital before founding Zetta, joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 1990 shortly after its founding and spending roughly 20 years there as Managing Director, serving on the boards of Omniture, AdForce, NetDynamics, and Scopus Technologies through IPOs and acquisitions by Adobe, CMGI, Sun Microsystems, and Siebel respectively. He left in 2013 to found Zetta Venture Partners, deliberately positioning it as the first venture fund investing exclusively in AI-native startups, years before the category became mainstream. Gorenberg brings a genuinely technical foundation to that specialization - he was a member of the original SPARCstation 1 team at Sun Microsystems before moving into venture - and beyond investing, he chairs the MIT Corporation's board of trustees and was appointed by President Obama to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 2011.

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Previous Experience

Notable Investments

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Career Timeline

1976
Earns a BS from MIT, later joining the original SPARCstation 1 team at Sun Microsystems.
1990
Joins Hummer Winblad Venture Partners shortly after its founding by John Hummer and Ann Winblad, investing out of its first fund.
2011
Appointed by President Obama to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
2013
Leaves Hummer Winblad after roughly 20 years to found Zetta Venture Partners, the first venture fund dedicated exclusively to AI.
2015
Closes Zetta's first fund at $100 million.

Sources & References

Wikipedia - Mark Gorenberg ↗Zetta Venture Partners - Mark Gorenberg ↗