Mark Phillips
Managing Partner
Mark Phillips is the Founder and Managing Partner of 11 Tribes Ventures, a Chicago-based venture capital firm he launched in April 2021. At 11 Tribes, Mark leads all aspects of the firm — investing, fundraising, and operations — guided by the belief that sustainable, durable, and profitable companies are built by focus on the founder outcome as well as the business outcome.
Before founding 11 Tribes, Mark served as Director of Ventures at P33 Chicago, a civic initiative dedicated to growing Chicago’s technology ecosystem. Prior to that, he spent three years as a Strategy M&A Consultant at Point B and four years as a Strategy Consultant at Accenture. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Mathematics from Wheaton College.
Mark lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with his wife Emily and their three boys. He is a passionate student of leadership and is fascinated by what he calls the power law of people.
