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Managing Partner

Arafura Ventures focuses on the following sectors or industries with investments and reflect these themes: Cloud & Decentralization of the Enterprise The Cloud enabled new technology business models to flourish over the past decade. We know as we helped roll out web hosting in the late 90's. We believe these first generation cloud companies laid the foundation of further decentralization of the enterprise. The consolidation of cloud software vendors and desire for IT managers to choose cloud vendors who provide more value and industry expertise presents significant investment opportunities that Arafura Ventures is focused on investing in.

Based in San Francisco, I specialize in quantitative web analytics, search engine algorithms, cloud software and online content publishing systems. A director of US based software companies, I focus on growth strategies, go to market expansion, staff hiring and venture capital funding of SaaS companies. I hold a current Australian Financial Services Licence (Licence No: 493852) and authorized to provide general and financial advice in securities to wholesale investors. I completed a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne (B.Comm) in 1993, attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA from 2007-2010 in Continuous Studies and am a Graduate of the Australia Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). As Director of SearchForecast, clients include: Sellercloud, ThankView, SupercheapAuto, PDQ.com, LiveOps, Menlo Security, Zscaler, AOL, Bills.com, BBC, First National Real Estate, Deloitte, PanasonicCloud.com, DreamHost, St.George Bank, Booktopia, CurrencyOnline.com, SportingBet, GreatValueVacations.com, Choices Flooring, Powertec, Jetabroad.com and many more. Founding Managing Partner in Arafura Ventures Inc. investing in US based technology start ups and early stage companies. Author "Inside Silicon Valley" http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DRU5SD4 Founding Shareholder of WebIP - acquired by NetNames UK in 2014. Read more at: http://www.netnames.com/news/netnames-enters-australian-market-acquisition-webip Board Member/Advisor of GlanceGuide - acquired by Nielsen in 2010. Read more at: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/04/nielsen-acquires-online-video-analytics-company-glanceguide/ Advisor of Localyte.com Inc- acquired by NileGuide in 2010. Read more at: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/11/nileguide-acquires-localyte-to-add-local-sherpas-to-travel-planning-site/ Founding shareholder of CommissionMonster in 2003 - largest affiliate network in Australia and acquired by Blue Freeway in 2007. Founder of APT Strategies in 1993 and acquired by Jupiter Research Inc. (NASDAQ: JUPM) in 1999, now owned by Forrester Research Inc. (NASDAQ: FORR). I am a frequent speaker at international conferences. Some of my previous books include 'Successful E-Commerce" and "The World's Best Online Advertising Campaigns". See http://www.marcphillips.org