Mark Spoto

Mark Spoto has 25+ years of experience investing in successful technology companies and helping his executive teams, co-investors, and partners simplify, analyze, and optimize complex engineering and financial decisions.

Mark is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Razor’s Edge Ventures. Mark invests in growth stage technology companies and platform companies focused in the areas of advanced sensor development, defense and aerospace, with particular expertise in space-oriented technologies.

In the last five years, Mark has invested in and helped build multiple elite national security technology companies with sensor and space capabilities designed for success with peer threat adversaries. Mark’s representative portfolio includes 908 Devices (Nasdaq: MASS) and Altamira (acquired by ClearSky) and satellite platform companies BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) and HawkEye 360.

Mark presently serves on the Board of Directors of Razor’s Edge portfolio companies 908 Devices, HawkEye360 (where he is Chairman), Ursa Space, and X-Bow Systems, and others. He previously served on the Board of Directors of BlackSky, which went public (NYSE: BKSY), and Mersive, which was sold to OpenGate Capital.

Before joining Razor’s Edge, Mark was a partner at the national technology law firm of Cooley LLP. His legal practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, public securities offerings, and general corporate representation. Prior to Cooley, Mark was an aerospace engineer supporting the Air Force Titan IV rocket program.

Mark holds a B.S., summa cum laude, in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.