11 Tribes Ventures
Mark Phillips is an experienced professional with a diverse background in entrepreneurship, consulting, and innovation. Mark is currently the Founder & Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures, a position they have held since January 2020. Mark also serves as the Entrepreneur In Residence at the Wheaton Center for Faith & Innovation, starting in April 2021 and expected to continue until March 2023.
Prior to their current roles, Mark held several positions at various companies. From March 2020 to February 2021, they worked as the Director, Ventures at P33 Chicago. Before that, Mark was a Strategy M&A Consultant at Point B from April 2017 to March 2020. Mark also co-founded Better Way Farms, LLC and served as the Head of Innovation from May 2015 to August 2018. Mark began their career at Accenture as a Strategy Consultant from May 2013 to March 2017.
Mark Phillips has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics from Wheaton College.
11 Tribes Ventures
11 Tribes Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that proactively invests in the resilience of entrepreneurs. We are radical in our allocation of resources to develop our founders, putting real dollars towards their mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Our approach is proving that healthy founders will lead to healthy returns without compromising mission or profitability. Furthermore, we invest in purpose-driven entrepreneurs disrupting legacy industries. Our firm provides innovative, founder-focused venture capital investment to early-stage technology companies in non-traditional technology hubs across the country. By rejecting the status quo of dollars-driven, people-indifferent investing and replacing it with an approach that centers around building businesses that are profitable and sustainable, 11 Tribes is changing the narrative of traditional venture from burnout to flourishing by redefining the ecosystem of support around each founder.