Frank R. Caufield

Frank Caufield is Managing Partner at Darwin Ventures. Frank founded Darwin Ventures in 2004. Through his unique experience, diverse network, and family history, Frank has gained access to the highest quality Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley and identified and invested in the most compelling rising stars in the VC industry.

Frank has over 25 years of experience in high technology finance, business development, marketing and sales. As an entrepreneur Frank founded several companies, most recently MarkLogic, a NoSQL Database company. Frank also worked at the Xerox Venture Lab, the Venture Capital arm of Xerox PARC. While at Xerox, he engineered the spinout of Outride Corporation. Outride was sold to Google in 2001 and was only the second company ever purchased by Google.

Frank is an active angel investor with 24 angel investments in Silicon Valley based startups. As an investor and advisor Frank has been involved with many high profile companies such as Ooyala, 42Floors, Tremor, Octopart, Tile, and Ustream, to name a few.

Frank received a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, and a M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business, UCLA.