Mark Pearson

Managing Partner at Fuel Ventures · Joined 2014

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Biography

Mark Pearson is Managing Partner of Fuel Ventures, the title the firm's team page gives him, and is the firm's founder. Fuel Ventures states that the firm started in 2014 when it began raising its first fund, and its site describes him as an entrepreneur who scaled his own company, MyVoucherCodes, to a £55m exit. His team page bio reads: 'Mark is an award winning digital entrepreneur having achieved multiple successful exits over the last decade. Mark takes an active role in mentoring the Fund's portfolio of companies.' He is the Fuel Ventures spokesperson quoted in the large majority of the firm's investment announcements, in which he is styled variously as Founder of Fuel Ventures and as Managing Partner. In a bylined Maddyness UK article of 2 December 2024 he wrote that Fuel Ventures invests between £250K and £3M, deploys around £70m a year and has backed over 170 companies, and named SaaS, fintech and marketplaces as focus areas. No board seat is recorded. Twenty-three Fuel Ventures investment announcements were read on 7 September 2026 and none contains a sentence appointing anyone to a portfolio company board, and no portfolio company board page naming this person was found.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

EventwiseCommunity WolfEverybody CountsAllassoMedleyKaravelIntelligent CoreLevellrAllocation StrategyTytenDeakuGlydeMartelloTheodosianSynthaxBlocktypePestoRehumanJack FertilityVRFYEnginuity

Career Timeline

2014
Founded Fuel Ventures; the firm's own page states 'Fuel Ventures technically started back in 2014 when we started raising our first fund'.
2024
Wrote a bylined piece for Maddyness UK on 2 December 2024 stating that Fuel Ventures invests between £250K and £3M, deploys around £70m each year and has backed over 170 companies.
2025
Quoted as Founder of Fuel Ventures in the firm's January 2025 announcements of investments in Community Wolf and Jack Fertility.
2026
Quoted as Founder of Fuel Ventures in the firm's 13 March 2026 announcement of Deaku's £480,000 pre-seed round.

Sources & References

Fuel Ventures - Our Team (bio and title) ↗Fuel Ventures - Homepage (founder scaled MyVoucherCodes to a £55m exit) ↗Fuel Ventures - Fueling the growth of early-stage companies (founding in 2014) ↗Maddyness UK - Fuel Ventures: investing between £250K & £3M, bylined Mark Pearson, 2 December 2024 ↗Fuel Ventures - Press index ↗