Mark Poag co-founded Fitz Gate Ventures with a thesis tightly anchored to the Princeton University ecosystem, leveraging a curated network of hundreds of founders, faculty, executives, and VCs to source and support deals. He has been teaching venture capital investing at both Princeton University's Graduate School and Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business for years, positioning him as a practitioner-educator who is formally shaping how VC is taught at two major universities.
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Generalist, AI, Fintech, Health, Deeptech / Hardware
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Seed - Series B+
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$500K - $1M
Notable Investments
Fitz Gate Ventures is intentionally built around the Princeton ecosystem, with the majority of its capital invested into startups founded, managed, or owned by Princeton alumni, faculty, or students, and maintains formal institutional ties to Princeton through its GPs serving as Princeton lecturers and Keller Center eLab advisors. The fund operates as a bi-regional gateway between the New York and Texas ecosystems rather than the standard SF/NY axis, and has produced at least one unicorn from each of its first two funds despite being a relatively small early-stage firm with ~$70m AUM across three funds.
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