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Bio – Mark Klopp

Independent consultant, board member, investor and advisor with a particular expertise in corporate venturing, business development, strategic partnering and licensing
Advisor to Tech Future Groups and Larta
Instructor for Global Corporate Venturing Institute
Previous CVC engagements with Citigroup, Alcatel-Lucent, Chevron, Dell, Philips, AAA, Nokia, Applied Materials, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Teijin Pharma, PTT Global Chemical, OCP, Nifco, Sempra and Michelin
Managing Director with Coronis Medical Ventures
Past Board Member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and served as Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee for the Corporate Venture Group
Formerly Managing Director of Eastman Ventures, Eastman Chemical Company's corporate venture capital arm - started up and led
Extensive operating experience in international business management, sales and marketing with Eastman
Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA in Management from Roosevelt University

ClimateTech Portfolio Examples

Lingrove – assisted on Series A financing for company that designs, engineers, and manufactures aesthetic, high-performing, ultra-sustainable eco-veneers, panels, and wayfinding biomaterials, made from renewable plants.
Glanris - converts ag waste into a carbon sequestering, multi-functional biocarbon. We helped explore SBIR/STTR grants and introduced them to prospective seed investors.
Rubi Earth - we assisted with NSF grant and seed financing as they use enzymes to capture CO2 and convert it to cellulose on a process that is net carbon-negative, water and land neutral, and fully traceable.
Encora - removes food containers from the waste stream which guarantees they won’t end up in a landfill, ocean, river, incinerator or the side of the road. We are helping them to scale to large university campuses.
Blue Forest – helped with USDA SBIR grant financing as they deploy private capital to finance forest restoration projects on private and public lands to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire.

Contact

If you are interested to be considered as a client, go to http://www.techfuturesgroup.org/ and click on “Apply”, you can say you learned about TFG from Mark Klopp at the Port Labs showcase.
Reach out to Matthew Joehnk at matthew@techfuturesgroup.org Mark Klopp at mvklopp@gmail.com if you have any questions.