Investor profile
Mark Hogarth
Accelerator, Corporate VC, Venture capital & Partner at Techstart Ventures, Director at UK Games Talent and Finance Community Interest Company, Partner VC at Focal
Mark Hogarth works as a Partner VC at Focal. The firm's known portfolio counts 13 companies.
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Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Partner at Techstart Ventures, whose known portfolio counts 9 companies
- FarmDrive
- Neurovalens
- Neurolabs
- Liquid Acquire
- Valla
- TeamFeePay
- LUMENSTREAM
- Foresight
- Optik AI
Director at UK Games Talent and Finance Community Interest Company, whose known portfolio counts 3 companies
- Ant Workshop
- Ace High Sports
- Psytec Games
Partner VC at Focal, whose known portfolio counts 13 companies
- Boldr
- Honest Mobile
- Coworker.ai
- Flamingo
- Thoras.ai
- BLNG
- Cosine
- Keragon
- VIZGARD
- Kaiden AI
- Maxed
- On Me
- and 1 more
Investor Profile
Mark Hogarth is listed against sectors AI, Consumer, Education and FinTech, and focus areas AI Applications, API, Analytics and Collaboration in the database.
Stage-wise, the deals at Focal cluster around Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Mark Hogarth is worth approaching.
Colleagues
Aidan MacMillan
Partner VC
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Carole du Fretay
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Siobhan Clarke
Advisory Board Member & Investment Committee Member
Manchester, United Kingdom
Petteri Koponen
Board Member
Helsinki, Finland
Hector Mason
Co-Founder
London, United Kingdom
Pascal Unger
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Miami, United States
Ben Ashworth
VC Partner
London, United Kingdom
Josh Corry
Investor
Belfast, United Kingdom
Calum Forsyth
Investor
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Daniel Darling
Co-founder & Managing Partner
San Francisco, United States
Richard Baillie
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Hugo Melvin
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Hal Wilson
Partner
Belfast, United Kingdom
Jamie Andrews
Partner
Belfast, United Kingdom
Audrey Osborne
Investor
Belfast, United Kingdom
Isabella Thomas
Partner Fund
United Kingdom
Frequently asked questions
Who is Mark Hogarth?
Mark Hogarth is an accelerator partner and corporate venture investor based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, listed as Partner VC at Focal. The known portfolio of that firm counts 13 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Mark Hogarth personally.
What does Mark Hogarth invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Consumer, Education and FinTech; listed focus areas include AI Applications, API, Analytics and Collaboration. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Mark Hogarth invest at?
Focal appears in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds across its known deals, and Mark Hogarth is listed there as Partner VC. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Mark Hogarth listed at?
Mark Hogarth is listed as Partner VC at Focal. 16 other people in the database share a firm with Mark Hogarth.
How do I contact Mark Hogarth?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Mark Hogarth. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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