Mark Pincus Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Professionals
  • 1

Professionals

  • Investments
  • 120

  • Portfolio
  • 63

  • Exits
  • 44

Exits

Mark Pincus General Information

Description

Mr. Mark Pincus is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Member at Reinvent Capital. Mr. Pincus serves as an Advisor at PlayerZero. He is a founder and serves as Chairman of the Board at Zynga. He is the Founder of WorkPlay Ventures. He served as an Advisor at HireAthena. is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. He founded several internet companies including Zynga, which pioneered social games to help establish gaming as a mass-market activity. He was the Chairman of Zynga's Board and also served as Zynga's Executive Chairman and twice as its Chief Executive Officer, including when he returned in 2015 to lead its turnaround and reinvention as a mobile-first games company. Zynga merger with Take-Two Interactive in 2022. Before Zynga, Mark founded tribe.net, one of the earliest online social networks whose technology was acquired by Cisco Systems. He also founded Support.com, a provider of help desk service and support automation software, one of the first enterprise software companies to go to market with a subscription-based model. Support.com went public in 2001. Mark also founded FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based, push technology news company, which was acquired by Individual, Inc. Mark has made numerous investments in many internet, media, and software companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Snap, Epic Games, Xiaomi, JD.com, and Niantic. He is also an active angel investor in technology startups. Mark has prioritized social impact in his personal and professional life. Zynga was one of the first companies to use in-game virtual goods to allow players to contribute directly to disaster relief and other nonprofit efforts. Mark was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Board of the Presidio Trust, a federal agency that operates the Presidio as part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. He also regularly lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs at colleges and universities, including Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mark has built an intellectual practice around product management. He was an early pioneer in reimagining product management for consumer internet products, notably the use of rapid testing and experimentation to inform design decisions in all stages of product development. He also developed a product roadmapping process that tracks engineering resources to expected outcomes. Mark was among the first to bring these lessons to games, spawning an always-on, product-as-a-service operating model that empowers product teams to react in real time to user behavior by deploying product updates. In addition, Mark co-created the Stanford Graduate School of Business course on Product Management with Professor Amir Goldberg. He is the Founder and serves as Co-Lead Director at Reinvent Technology Partners Z.

Business Details

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • San Francisco, CA
  • United States

Mark Pincus Investments (120)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
Substack 12-Nov-2024 Later Stage VC Publishing Generating Revenue
Troveo 01-Nov-2024 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Echo Chunk 16-Jul-2024 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
Moon Beast Productions 27-Jun-2024 Other Commercial Services Startup
Spring Free EV 07-Apr-2023 Financial Software Generating Revenue
Underdog Fantasy 26-Jul-2022 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
Alphy 14-Jun-2022 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Bravado 19-May-2022 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Fractal (Financial Software) 01-Apr-2022 Seed Round Financial Software Generating Revenue
BlockSpaces 18-Mar-2022 Seed Round Other Financial Services Generating Revenue

Mark Pincus Exits (44)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Everlance 19-Feb-2025 Buyout/LBO
Coda (Business/Productivity Software) 17-Dec-2024
Blockstars 13-Jul-2024
Drive.fm 14-Apr-2024
Artie 31-Jan-2024
Samlino.dk 01-Jan-2024
Koji 14-Dec-2023
MoneyHero Group 12-Oct-2023
Factmata 17-Nov-2022 Buyout/LBO
Zynga 23-May-2022 Merger/Acquisition

Mark Pincus Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

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Mark Pincus Co-Investors (670)

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Mark Pincus FAQs

  • Who is Mark Pincus?

    Mark Pincus is an angel Investor who has made 120 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Mark Pincus?

    Mark Pincus is an angel investor.

  • What does Mark Pincus do?

    As an angel investor, Mark Pincus invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • How many board seats does Mark Pincus hold?

    Mark Pincus holds 2 board seats including Reinvent Technology Partners Z and Zynga.

  • What has Mark Pincus invested in?

    Mark Pincus has made numerous investments in companies like Substack, Troveo, and Echo Chunk within the Publishing, Business/Productivity Software, and Entertainment Software industries.

  • What has Mark Pincus invested in recently?

    Mark Pincus's latest investment was on 12-Nov-2024 in Substack, a company within the Publishing industry.

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