# Marcus Segal

> Marcus Segal is a seed investor at ForeVR Games (San Francisco) backing Mobile and E-Commerce. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ForeVR Games](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forevr)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcussegal/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/marcussegal

Marcus Segal is a seed investor at ForeVR Games in San Francisco focused on Mobile and E-Commerce. SVP of Operations at Zynga. Attended Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$3.5M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$6.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| Advertising | 2 | 29% |
| Communities | 2 | 29% |
| SMS | 1 | 14% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Poland | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cascade | Cascade is an AI platform that helps engineering, architecture, and construction firms predict upcoming projects and automatically find, score, and write proposals for high‑fit contracts, so they can win more work with less manual effort. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Acceler8 | Acceler8 is a business intelligence platform that aims to replace traditional, calendar-driven workforce decisions with continuous, data-driven insights. |  | Seed | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| Myria | Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| LandVault | Landvault develops infrastructure for the 3D internet, focusing on tools that enable the creation, deployment, and monetization of immersive digital experiences. The company offers AI-powered solutions for building digital twins and interactive environments, serving sectors such as e-commerce, entertainment, public services, and real estate. Itsplatform supports content creation through AI-assisted tools compatible with engines like Unreal and Unity, allowing for efficient development of 3D experiences. | $1.5M | Series A | Sep 23, 2020 |  |
| Tylko | Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 04, 2015 |  |
| Drop | Drop is a product company that uniquely uses data and insights from enthusiasts to create and curate innovative products that fuel passion. With new, diverse products featured every day, Drop empowers people across the globe to find and follow their interests, learn, share, shop, and participate in product development. Popular Drop categoriesinclude audio, tech, apparel, outdoors, and cooking. Founded in 2012, Drop is home to 7 million members. Drop is available on Drop.com and the Drop app. | $6.5M | Series A | Sep 24, 2014 |  |
| TextualAds | TextualAds, created by Qlique Labs, allows brands to collect fans' mobile numbers and send them SMS (text) messages about current marketing campaigns. TextualAds has robust targeting capabilities that allow messages to be sent to Mobile Fans based on age, gender, country, state, city or zip making this one of the most effective, customizablemarketing CMS on the Facebook platform.Based on the category chosen, the tab displays how expansive the marketing reach will be with each campaign.Not only can users target their audience precisely, they can also customize the tabs appearance quickly, efficiently and brand-specifically. Page descriptions, header images, custom colors, and a CSS style-sheet can be added to this app.Managing campaigns is extremely easy and includes detailed metrics for tracking purposes. Users can even export a CSV of the phone numbers submitted to their tab, helping to reengage time and time again.This is an amazing way to incentivize clientele with offers, promotions and discounts directly to the palm of their hand. It's simple, it's effective and it's truly a game-changing idea. | $650K | Seed | Dec 29, 2010 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allied Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allied-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blitzscaling Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blitzscaling-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ForeVR Games

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Founded and run by Marcus Segal and Michael Pagano Doom, the company is creating category defining games with social play that offer entertainment for people of all ages. Launched in 2020 during one of the strangest times in human history, ForeVR understands that VR’s time is now. The accessibility of VR technology, the need for socially distantentertainment options and nostalgia for popular in person games set the stage for success. As well as the fact that 42.9 million people in the US will use VR at least once a month this year and gaming and entertainment media hold 40.5% of the VR market share (Statista).The ForeVR team includes gaming veterans, imagineers, and a death metal guitarist. This collective are also early pioneers of social gaming, VR-AR immersives and AAA branded toys. Together they have one goal --Translate the most popular and classic IRL games into immersive virtual reality experiences where friends and families of all ages can connect and have fun.

5 contacts available at ForeVR Games.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anders Heie | Director Of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anders-heie |
| Lauren Koester | Senior Director of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-koester |
| Marcus Segal | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-segal |
| Mike Pagano Doom | CCO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-pagano-doom |
| Noah Ruffell | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noah-ruffell-5497 |

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## FAQ

### What does Marcus Segal invest in?

Marcus Segal invests primarily in Mobile, E-Commerce and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Marcus Segal's check size?

Marcus Segal typically joins rounds of $650k–$3.5M at Seed and $1.5M–$6.5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marcus Segal participates in.

### When did Marcus Segal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marcus Segal closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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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