Where does Mark Cupta work?

Mark Cupta is Managing Director at Prelude Ventures and Board director at Channing Street Copper Co and Board director at Quaise and Board director at Holo.

What check size does Mark Cupta write?

Mark Cupta typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.

What boards does Mark Cupta sit on?

Mark Cupta holds tracked board seats at Arable Labs, Inc., Benson Hill Biosystems, Boston Electrometallurgical, Channing Street Copper Co, Citrine Informatics, Emergy, Holo, Quaise, Zapata Computing.

Where did Mark Cupta go to school?

Mark Cupta studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Master of Business Administration (MBA)); Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering); Georgia Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).

Mark Cupta

Investor

Managing Director at Prelude Ventures · Board director at Channing Street Copper Co · Board director at Quaise · Board director at Holo

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

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About

Mark Cupta, an ex-Celanese operator with BS/MS in Chemical/Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Stanford, backs emerging‑tech entrepreneurs in resource‑intensive industries and champions quantum computing for climate.

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Invests in

CleantechClimate TechDeep TechEnergyHardwareNew Materials

Board director at Channing Street Copper Co

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Channing Street Copper Co's investors · 2

Prelude VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025 Voyager PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Channing Street Copper Co

Samuel CalischExecutive Officer

Board director at Quaise

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Quaise's investors · 12

8090 IndustriesNew York Collaborative FundNew York · $500K – $1M checks Fine Structures VenturesCambridge Helium-3 VenturesNew York Idemitsu Kosansince 2026 JERATokyo · since 2026 Prelude VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2026 Safar PartnersCambridge · since 2022 Starlight VenturesMiami · $100K – $3M checks TechEnergy VenturesBuenos Aires The Engine VenturesCambridge Xplorer CapitalMenlo Park

Co-founders at Quaise

Matt HoudeFounder

Carlos AraqueFounder

Board director at Holo

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Holo's investors · 6

Impact46Riyadh · $1M – $22M checks · since 2019 Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2019 Prelude VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2019 Rua Growth Fund$2.3M – $30M checks · since 2019 Salica InvestmentsLondon · since 2019 Wamda CapitalDubai · $600K – $65M checks · since 2019

Co-founders at Holo

Arian AghababaieExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter

Arran SummerhillFounder

Michael HunterFounder

Experience

Prelude VenturesManaging Directorcurrent2013 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
CopperBoard Membercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Thea EnergyBoard Membercurrent2023 — presentNew Jersey, United States
Xcimer Energy CorporationBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Rumin8Board Membercurrent2022 — presentWestern Australia, Australia
QuaiseBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentGreater Houston
Arable Labs, Inc.Board Membercurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Boston MetalBoard Membercurrent2018 — presentGreater Boston
Citrine InformaticsBoard Membercurrent2014 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Atom ComputingBoard Observercurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Pivot BioBoard Observercurrent2016 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
HeirloomInvestorcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
unspunInvestorcurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
CoverCress Inc.Board Observer2015 — 2022Greater St. Louis
GreenLight Biosciences, Inc.Board Observer2019 — 2022Greater Boston
PlanetInvestor2017 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
Benson HillBoard Member2015 — 2021Greater St. Louis
Novomer, Inc.Business Strategy2012Waltham, MA
Chevron Technology VenturesBusiness Decision Analyst2012San Ramon, CA
CelaneseVarious Research & Business Development Roles2006 — 2011Dallas, TX
Kimberly-ClarkVarious Research & Engineering Roles2000 — 2004Greater Atlanta Area

Deals · 7

Boston ElectrometallurgicalBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed Mar 2026 · $100M raise

Channing Street Copper CoBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed Aug 2025 · $20M raise

Citrine InformaticsBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed Feb 2025 · $6.1M raise

EmergyBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed May 2024 · $289.9M raise

Zapata ComputingBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed Jul 2023 · $20M raise

HoloBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed Oct 2019 · $10M raise

Benson Hill BiosystemsBoard seat

via Prelude Ventures · filed May 2017 · $25.1M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Other disclosed investments

Board seats

Arable Labs, Inc.Quaise

Per SEC Form D filings.

Colleagues at Prelude Ventures

Anneli Matheson

Executive Assistant at Prelude Ventures

Cisco J. del Valle

Executive Officer at Prelude Ventures

Davis Warnock

General Partner at Prelude Ventures

Edward Yang

Senior Associate at Prelude Ventures

Eileen McMahon

Coordinator of Operations and Executive Support at Prelude Ventures

Gabriel Kra

Managing Director at Prelude Ventures

Gavin Saitowitz

Executive Officer at Prelude Ventures

Greg Warnock

General Partner at Prelude Ventures

Network3

Arvind Gupta

Partner at Mayfield Fund

Carly Anderson

Principal at Prelude Ventures

Gabriel Kra

Managing Director at Prelude Ventures

Investors connected to Mark in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Mark Cupta?: Mark Cupta, an ex-Celanese operator with BS/MS in Chemical/Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Stanford, backs emerging‑tech entrepreneurs in resource‑intensive industries and champions quantum computing for climate.
Where does Mark Cupta work?: Mark Cupta is Managing Director at Prelude Ventures and Board director at Channing Street Copper Co and Board director at Quaise and Board director at Holo.
What does Mark Cupta invest in?: Mark Cupta invests in Cleantech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Energy, Hardware, New Materials.
What check size does Mark Cupta write?: Mark Cupta typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
What boards does Mark Cupta sit on?: Mark Cupta holds tracked board seats at Arable Labs, Inc., Benson Hill Biosystems, Boston Electrometallurgical, Channing Street Copper Co, Citrine Informatics, Emergy, Holo, Quaise, Zapata Computing.
Where did Mark Cupta go to school?: Mark Cupta studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Master of Business Administration (MBA)); Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering); Georgia Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).