How to Lower Failure Rate?

Mark Fasciano (CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Canrock Ventures)


Mark Fasciano talks about his companies approach to funding startups including working with CEOs, going on sales calls with startup sales representatives which have resulted in eighteen success stories of the twenty companies they have bank rolled.

Mark Fasciano

CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Canrock Ventures After his PhD from the University of Chicago's Artificial Intelligence Lab, Mark Fasciano decided to capitalize on the potential of the budding internet and launch his first business venture. He started FatWire Software with a graduate school friend, and it eventually grew to a $40 million business that got bought by Oracle. Inspired by FatWire's Mark has co-founded many other ventures. His latest venture, Clarapath, aims to automate and digitize the medical field of histopathology so that doctors can make critical diagnoses more accurately and efficiently.

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Mark Fasciano

CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Canrock Ventures

After his PhD from the University of Chicago's Artificial Intelligence Lab, Mark Fasciano decided to capitalize on the potential of the budding internet and launch his first business venture. He started FatWire Software with a graduate school friend, and it eventually grew to a $40 million business that got bought by Oracle. Inspired by FatWire's Mark has co-founded many other ventures. His latest venture, Clarapath, aims to automate and digitize the medical field of histopathology so that doctors can make critical diagnoses more accurately and efficiently.

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