Mark Skapinker

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Mark Skapinker is a Managing Partner at Brightspark, a software venture capital firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Born in South Africa, he immigrated to Canada where, along with Bert Amato, he co-founded Delrina, where they devised its first product, the electronic form software PerForm. He served as Delrina's President. The firm was sold to Symantec in November 1995.

In 1997 he founded Balisoft Technologies, a company that created intelligent customer interaction software. This firm was merged with Servicesoft Technologies in 1999, which was in turn acquired by Broadbase Software in September 2000.

[edit] External links

• "Founding Father", an article about Mark Skapinker derived from Profit Magazine, accessed November 6, 2005
• "Seeds sown at Delrina are still sprouting", story about the founders of Delrina and what they went on to do afterwards, accessed November 6, 2005