# Marco Mahrus

> Marco Mahrus is a seed investor backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcomahrus

Marco Mahrus is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. As an early employee in high-growth businesses (3 exits, 2 IPOs), I led global payments and financial partnerships at Uber, was Chief Business Officer at Brex and Head of Revenue at Bridge. I love supporting next-generation founders as an advisor and investor. Focus areas include: B2B/enterprise sales, strategic and channel partnerships,card issuing and embedded banking, payments acquiring and disbursements including cross-border payments, loyalty program design, lessons/frameworks from Uber & Brex

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $10M–$14M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 70% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 50% |
| Payments | 4 | 40% |
| Banking | 3 | 30% |
| Finance | 3 | 30% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 80% |
| Colombia | 1 | 10% |
| Argentina | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Takenos | Takenos provides the best way to get paid in LATAM for freelancers and contractors. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 | https://takenos.com |
| Parcha AI | Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2023 | https://www.parcha.ai/ |
| Atlas | Atlas is a provider of a credit card service platform for consumers. It connects to customer banks to get a spending limit that can be offered, sets up autopay, and reports on-time payments with instant transaction alerts. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 | http://www.atlasfin.com |
| A.Team | A.Team builds proprietary agentic intelligence systems for consumer-facing enterprises, turning fragmented data, institutional knowledge, and historical decisions into a single self-improving intelligence layer that compounds over time.Unlike generic AI platforms, A.Team deploys a custom intelligence system inside your environment, trained onyour data, campaigns, and outcomes. Forward-deployed engineers with an average of 18 years of experience from leading technology companies build and operate the system alongside client teams, embedding it directly into existing workflows without requiring new platforms or logins.Enterprises that work with A.Team compress the insight-to-action cycle from days to hours, shift marketing teams from data assembly to strategic thinking, and build a proprietary intelligence asset that grows more valuable with every decision made.A.Team's reusable AI middleware (Assemble) enables first insights in 48 hours and measured value in 90 days. The system is model-agnostic, fully owned by the client, and designed so intelligence persists regardless of vendor relationship.A.Team serves CMOs, Chief Growth Officers, and senior marketing leaders at consumer-facing enterprises with $100M+ in marketing spend across CPG, retail, food and beverage, entertainment, media, tech, automotive, and travel. | $55M | Series A | May 17, 2022 | https://a.team |
| Yuno | Yuno enables any company to accept all the available payment methods and manage fraud through a single integration. It allows customize checkout and adding new payment methods with just a click. The company enables an improved customer experience while increasing revenues by routing transactions to the best processor and retrying declinedtransactions. | $10M | Seed | Mar 10, 2022 | https://www.y.uno/ |
| Tallied Technologies | Tallied is a fintech infrastructure company providing a fully cloud native, API first end to end modern credit card platform and program management services for fintechs, banks and embedded finance customers. | $13.5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2022 | https://www.tallied.io |
| Tilt (formerly Empower) | Founded by former Sequoia Capital partner and entrepreneur Warren Hogarth, Empower is building a personal financial assistant and digital bank for millennials. Today​,​ the interests of consumers and banks is fundamentally misaligned: banks earn the most when people pay maximum fees, earn little to no interest, and are locked into the highestinterest rate​s​​​. Empower has built an AI powered financial assistant that works 24/7 to help consumers improve their financial lives and is launching a new kind of bank for tech savvy young professionals that are hustling to get ahead. | $150M | Series B | Jul 08, 2021 | https://www.empower.me |
| Puzzle Financial | Puzzle Financial is a modern data platform for startups |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 | https://www.puzzle.io |
| Finix | Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform designed to let businesses own, manage and monetize their payments. Their platform uses modular, workflow-driven architecture and a real-time interface to track transactions, consolidate disparate payment processor data and underwrite merchant accounts, enabling banks, acquirers, andenterprises to send money anywhere in the facilitate push payments over debit cards. |  | Series B | Dec 23, 2020 | http://www.finixpayments.com |
| Synctera | Synctera's platform provides technology infrastructure, sponsor bank connections, and a compliance framework to support the launch of FinTech or embedded banking products for companies of all sizes. Utilizing a unified set of robust APIs, businesses can efficiently introduce and expand products like debit cards, bank accounts, charge cards,lines of credit, and money movement. Whether you're a FinTech startup or an established company looking to integrate banking services into your existing product lineup, Synctera offers the tools to bring your vision to fruition quickly and effectively. | $12.4M | Seed | Dec 08, 2020 | https://www.synctera.com |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Marco Mahrus invest in?

Marco Mahrus invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marco Mahrus's check size?

Marco Mahrus typically joins rounds of $10M–$14M at Seed and $100k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marco Mahrus participates in.

### How do I contact Marco Mahrus?

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### When did Marco Mahrus last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marco Mahrus closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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