Mark Dawson

Mark Dawson currently serves as the Managing Partner at Apex Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. Prior to his current investment role, he spent eight years at Google, where he operated as the Director of Product Management and oversaw a portfolio of enterprise cloud applications generating $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue. Dawson previously held the position of Vice President of Engineering at Stripe, scaling the core infrastructure engineering team from 40 to over 300 employees during a period of rapid global expansion. He began his technology career as a software developer at Microsoft after earning a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. His extensive professional background centers on scaling complex enterprise software platforms and directing strategic seed-stage investments toward emerging financial technology startups.