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Marc Bensadoun

Investor

Strategy Council, Key Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund · Seed-stage Investor and Advisor at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Berkeley, California, United States

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About

Marc Bensadoun is a seed-stage investor and serves as Advisory Board Co-Chair at UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science. He holds a BA in Physics from Cornell and a Ph.D. in experimental astrophysics from UC Berkeley, where he studied under 2006 Nobel Laureate George Smoot. He founded Newfield Wireless, which provided mobile network operators with modeling and optimization tools and later an enterprise big-data platform for mobile geoanalytics, and sold the company in 2013.

Experience

  1. UC Berkeley College of Letters & ScienceAdvisory Board Co-Chaircurrent2019 — present
  2. Lawrence Hall of Science, UC BerkeleyAdvisory Council Membercurrent2019 — presentBerekeley
  3. SquashDrive, Inc.Board Membercurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  4. Berkeley SkyDeckStrategy Council, Key Advisorcurrent2016 — present
  5. IndependentSeed-stage investor and advisorcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  6. Newfield Wireless, a Tektronix Communications CompanyFounder & CEO Newfield Wireless2014 — 2015Berkeley, California
  7. Newfield WirelessFounder & CEO1995 — 2013Berkeley, California
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPost Doctoral Research Scientist1992 — 1994Berkeley, California
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryGraduate Student Research Assistant1986 — 1991Berkeley, California

Colleagues at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Allen Yang
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Executive Director, FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Areg Alimian
Partner at SmartGateVC
Balu Masti
Ambassador, India at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Bhavika Patel
Program Coordinator at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Brian Bordley
Partner at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
Bridgette L. Smith
CEO @ Founder Pitch Week; SkyDeck DEI Committee Chair at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Caroline Winnett
Angel at Berkeley Skydeck Fund
Chon Tang
Managing Partner at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Frequently asked questions

Who is Marc Bensadoun?
Marc Bensadoun is a seed-stage investor and serves as Advisory Board Co-Chair at UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science. He holds a BA in Physics from Cornell and a Ph.D. in experimental astrophysics from UC Berkeley, where he studied under 2006 Nobel Laureate George Smoot. He founded Newfield Wireless, which provided mobile network operators with modeling and optimization tools and later an enterprise big-data platform for mobile geoanalytics, and sold the company in 2013.
Where does Marc Bensadoun work?
Marc Bensadoun is Strategy Council, Key Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund.
Where did Marc Bensadoun go to school?
Marc Bensadoun studied at University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., Astrophysics); Cornell University (B.A., Physics).

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Also attended Cornell University1,165

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Shared employers

Also worked at UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science2

Divyansh SaksenaAnalyst at Congruent VenturesAkash KulgodFounder at Dognosis

Also worked at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley2

Audrey GordonSenior Director, Investments at Community Investment ManagementJonathan LinFounder at Blitz Esports

Also worked at SquashDrive, Inc.1

Pat FinnFounder and Managing Partner at Finn Capital Partners

Also worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory113

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