Core Capital Partners | Venture Capital for Enterprise Software Toggle navigation Home About Team Portfolio News Contact Core Capital Partners Venture Capital for Enterprise Software Who we are Core Capital is a leading venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. with approximately $400 million under management across three funds. Read More Our Strategy Core leads or co-leads early stage investments with a strong bias to companies based in the broader Mid-Atlantic area (roughly Atlanta to New York). Read More Our Focus We seek out proven founders and managers building outlier, data-intensive enterprise software applications and infrastructure solutions. Read More / Team Will Dunbar Managing Director Will Dunbar co-founded Core Capital Partners in 1999. Prior to Core, he was founder and CEO of Pebble Hill Capital, an early-stage, technology-focused investment company and was an early investor in webMethods, one of the most successful software IPOs in NASDAQ history. Previously, he was a senior executive at Allied Capital, a family of publicly traded private equity funds, from 1987 to 1997 and served on the Investment Committee of each fund during that time. Will began his investment career at Venture America where he was involved in the early-stage funding of Discovery Communications and Digene, both of which became multibillion-dollar companies. Will is a member of the World Presidents Organization, and serves on the board of Venture Philanthropy Partners and the Meyer Foundation. Will holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Davidson College. Mark Levine Managing Director Mark Levine joined Core Capital in 2000 from GCI Venture Partners, an early stage technology venture capital fund that he founded and that was an early investor in webMethods, one of the most successful software IPOs in NASDAQ history. Prior to Core, Mark served as an officer, responsible for corporate development and strategy, of GEO-CENTERS, a technology firm with more than $200 million in revenue when it was acquired by SAIC. Previously, Mark was Subcommittee Staff Director for the Small Business Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mark serves on the Board of Trustees of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA), the Board of Advisors of both The George Washington University School of Business and the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, and the Advisory Board of Marshfield Associates. Mark received his M.B.A. from The George Washington University. Pascal Luck Managing Director Pascal has been an advisor to, and an investor in, emerging technology companies as a venture capitalist and investment banker for more than eighteen years and focuses on enterprise software and cyber-security investments. Prior to Core, Pascal was a Founder of Cross Hill Financial Group, a DC-based private investment banking/M A advisory firm. Previously, he was a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting specializing in finance and strategy initiatives. Pascal began his career as a systems engineer with AT T-IS/Bell Laboratories. Pascal is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds an M.B.A. in Finance with Distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Physics/Engineering from Loyola University in Maryland. Randy Klueger Chief Financial Officer Randy Klueger joined Core Capital Partners in 2004 and has assisted various Core portfolio companies, including SwapDrive, buySAFE, sentitO, Core Communications, Clareos, and Covega Corporation, in addition to leading the firms internal financial operations, limited partner communications, and capital calls. Previously, Randy was President of Klueger Associates LLC, providing Chief Financial Officer services and counsel to middle market companies. He spent the prior ten years as Chief Financial Officer of Global Material Technologies, Inc., an international friction material company, and four years as President and Chief Financial Officer of Millennium Laser Eye Centers, a Virginia-based chain of refractive eye surgery centers. Randy holds a bachelors degree in Business Administration from The George Washington University. James Keeratisakdawong Vice President James Keeratisakdawong joined Core Capital Partners in 2016 and focuses on early stage investments in the enterprise technology sector. Previously, James was focused on technology investments as a Principal at the Maryland Venture Fund, a $100 million AUM evergreen direct investment fund and a $56 million AUM fund of funds. He began his career with Longstreet Partners, a private investment and advisory firm focused on the enterprise and public sectors. He also has direct involvement in the founding of two technology startups, one focused on collaborative consumption and the other on paid search keyword bid optimization. James holds a B.S. in Marketing from George Mason University and a MBA from Babson College. / Portfolio Sort Date Newest First Date Oldest First Name A-Z Name Z-A Sector All Big Data Cloud Computing Cyber-security Enterprise Software Mobile and Networking Team Member All Evan MacQueen Mark Levine Pascal Luck Randy Klueger Will Dunbar Stardog Arlington, VA Enterprise Data Unification www.stardog.com Radius Networks WASHINGTON, DC Proximity Services www.radiusnetworks.com Vizbee New York, NY Second Screen Media Platform STAQ Baltimore, MD Unified Marketing Technology Stack www.staq.com DivvyCloud McLean, VA Cloud Automation www.divvycloud.com pendo.io Raleigh, NC Product Engagement Platform www.pendo.io Luminal Frederick, MD Immutable Cloud Infrastructure www.luminal.com ZeroFOX Baltimore, MD Social Risk Management www.zerofox.com Previous Next / News Stardog Raises $2.3 Million First Round to Capture Enterprise Data Unification Market July 20, 2016 Evan MacQueen Stardog announced today that it has closed a $2.3 million round of seed funding led by Core Capital and Boulder Ventures. The funding allows Stardog to strengthen its position as the leading graph-based data unification platform. WASHINGTON, DC Jul 20, 2016 Stardog, an enterprise data unification platform, announced today that the company has closed a $2.3 million round of seed funding led by Core Capital and Boulder Ventures. The funding allows Stardog to strengthen its position as the leading graph-based data unification platform. Stardog uses smart graph technology to efficiently unify heterogeneous, disparate data across the enterprise. Continue reading Categories: Investment, Uncategorized Tags: Boulder Ventures Evan MacQueen Seed STAQ Raises $5 Million Funding Round to Capture Digital Marketing Integrations Market May 19, 2016 Evan MacQueen NEW YORK, NY May 19, 2016 STAQ, the automated reporting and integrations platform as a service today announced that the company has closed on a $5 million round of funding led by Pereg Ventures and also including Genecast, Core Capital, Kinetic Ventures, and Revel Partners. The round allows STAQ to strengthen their position as the leading firm in the fast growing integrations and reporting automation market for digital advertising technology. STAQs platform integrates the technologies that publishers and advertisers use to drive their digital businesses. Continue reading Categories: Investment Tags: Evan MacQueen Mark Levine Series B STAQ DivvyCloud Wins Customers and Recognition for Cloud Infrastructure Automation Technology February 10, 2016 Evan MacQueen DivvyCloud enjoyed a breakout year in 2015 with new customers including General Electric, Discovery Communications, SoftwareAG Government Services and Accelera Solutions ARLINGTON, VA Feb 10, 2016 DivvyCloud, a developer of innovative technology to automate and manage todays cloud infrastructure, achieved a breakout year in 2015. Explosive growth in enterprise adoption of public and private cloud technologies is driving requirements for scalable, automated solutions to ensure security, cost and operational compliance across deployments of virtual cloud infrastructure. DivvyCloud offers on-premise and hosted versions of its cloud agnostic, extensible platform allowing customers to automate cloud infrastructure and policy enforcement. Continue reading Categories: Milestone Tags: DivvyCloud Evan MacQueen See All / Contact Address Core Capital Partners 1717 K Street NW Suite 920 Washington, DC 20006 Email General Inquiries info@core-capital.com Press and Investor Relations ktakahashi@core-capital.com Phone Numbers Phone 202-589-0090 Fax 202-589-0091 Back to Top Copyright © 2016 Core Capital Partners