Jim Payne
Entrepreneur In Residence @ Accel
New York, United States
Jim Payne is a seed investor at Accel in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. James Payne is the CPO of Unity. He previously worked at Facet Data as a CEO. James Payne attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Jim Payne invests in
Stages Jim Payne invests in
Countries Jim Payne invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (18%)
- CRM 2 (12%)
- Video 2 (12%)
- Gaming 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (65%)
- Series A 2 (12%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 13 (76%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Marketecture is a new kind of B2B media company. We cover advertising and marketing with podcasts, newsletters, and events. We do business under the brands Marketecture.tv, AdTechGod, Ad Tech Explained, Adland.tv, The Brand Forum, The Advertising Forum, and more. | $1M / Seed / Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Little Umbrella offers popular game genres with AI and personalized gameplay experiences ideal for all ages. | $2M / Seed / Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| Layer AI offers a generative AI platform to assist game developers in creating 2D, 3D, and video assets. The platform enables artists to train custom AI models using their own artwork, generate game assets, and refine them using an integrated canvas tool. Layer AI supports various workflows, including live service content, game characters,backgrounds, UI elements, in-game items, and marketing campaigns. The platform is model-agnostic, allowing integration with industry-standard tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot. Layer AI is built to be enterprise-ready, offering features like SOC 2 Type II compliance, single sign-on (SSO), role-based access controls, and full audit trails. The company provides different pricing plans, including a free tier for individual users and paid plans for teams and enterprises. | $1.8M / Seed / Dec 31, 2023 | ||
| Arteli is a predictive analytics platform using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve store optimization to drive higher revenue and margin. It effortlessly connects executives with actionable insights, propelling their businesses towards transformation. It's not merely data; it's comprehension, informeddecision-making, and, ultimately, the catalyst for achieving revolutionary outcomes. With Arteli's AI Analytics Interface, you're not merely staying in sync with your business; you're forging ahead as its leader. | Seed / Jul 01, 2023 | ||
| RentCheck is the essential nationwide provider of transparency and security, enabling landlords and residents alike to achieve serenity. They offer an app that saves money, time and prevents grief by standardizing move-in and move-out inspections and streamlining the security deposit deduction process. RentCheck solutions empower residents toemulate owners in order to maximize the return of their security deposit. | $3.6M / Seed / Aug 09, 2021 | ||
| Optable is a data collaboration and clean room solution designed for the advertising ecosystem in the age of privacy. The product was inspired by the radical transformation in how audience data is governed, connected, and activated. Optable takes an end-to-end approach to data collaboration and is integrated with ad delivery platforms for secureactivation, making it possible to deploy campaigns directly from a clean room. It is the only clean room solution that offers frictionless collaboration and interoperability enabling customers to safely and securely match audience data with any partner. | $3.6M / Seed / May 05, 2021 | ||
| Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications. It delivers real-time contextual throughout the application's life cycle that helps mobile application developers to detect bugs and errors on their application.The company was founded in 2014 and headquarteredin California, United States. | $5M / Series A / May 04, 2020 | ||
| Elliot is the only commerce platform where merchants from all 200+ countries can sell, ship, and get paid out. | $2M / Convertible Note / Jan 01, 2020 | ||
| FirstCut is building artificial intelligence for video creation | Pre-Seed / Jan 10, 2018 | ||
| Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications. It delivers real-time contextual throughout the application's life cycle that helps mobile application developers to detect bugs and errors on their application.The company was founded in 2014 and headquarteredin California, United States. | $1.7M / Seed / Jun 06, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Accel
Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment. The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.
Accel Contacts
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What does Jim Payne invest in?
Jim Payne invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Jim Payne closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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