Mark Yurko
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- Full Name
- Mark Yurko
- Title
- Managing Director, Technology Group
- Firm
- Lincoln International (formerly Spurrier Capital Partners); listed as an individual angel investor in startup-investor databases
- Firm Type
- Investment bank / M&A advisory (Lincoln International); Angel Investor in a personal capacity
- Investment Stage
- Seed (per angel-investor listings)
- Sector Focus
- Technology, media & telecom (TMT) — applications software, communications applications and infrastructure, customer/employee engagement, CRM, sales technology, and marketing automation
- Geographic Focus
- United States
- Location
- New York, NY
Background
Mark Yurko is a Managing Director in the Technology Group at Lincoln International, the global M&A advisory firm, where he focuses on applications software and communications/media technology. He has more than 20 years of technology and communications investment-banking experience and has advised on M&A and financing transactions with an aggregate value of over $100 billion, including IPOs, convertible offerings, private placements, restructurings, and leveraged-finance deals.
Yurko joined Lincoln through its early-2022 acquisition of Spurrier Capital Partners (SCP), a boutique technology and communications advisory firm founded by Clark Spurrier (USMA '84). At SCP he served as Managing Director, led the firm's communications-sector coverage, and was previously its Head of M&A. Before that, he was a senior banker in the TMT investment-banking group at Credit Suisse and in the global communications group at Citigroup (formerly Salomon Smith Barney), executing transactions for clients across technology, media, entertainment, satellite, and telecommunications.
Yurko began his career in the U.S. Army, serving five years as a Field Artillery officer (rising to Captain) in Europe and the United States before entering finance. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematical economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. After leaving Credit Suisse around the time of the Great Recession, he took an extended sabbatical before joining Spurrier Capital.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Deep specialization in TMT: communications applications and infrastructure, applications/enterprise software, CRM, sales technology, and marketing automation — the same sectors he advises on professionally.
- Listed in angel-investor/startup databases at the seed stage, consistent with an experienced operator-banker writing individual angel checks rather than deploying an institutional fund.
- His professional lens is that of an M&A advisor who has structured $100B+ in deals — suggesting an eye for companies with credible paths to acquisition or strategic exit.
- No publicly stated personal investment thesis or fixed check size was found in the sources reviewed.
Notable Investments
- No specific individual angel/seed portfolio companies for Mark Yurko are documented in public sources reviewed. (His public deal record is advisory M&A/financing work at Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Spurrier Capital Partners, and Lincoln International rather than named personal startup investments.)
- Verifiable public transaction context: he led communications-sector coverage and M&A at Spurrier Capital Partners, whose 2022 sale to Lincoln International he helped bring about and publicly announced.
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