# Mark Britto

> Mark Britto is a seed investor at PayPal backing Mobile and Apps. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [PayPal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paypal)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbritto/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mbritto

Mark Britto is a seed investor at PayPal in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Apps. With over 20 years as an entrepreneur, sales and financial services executive, Mark Britto is responsible for making BOKU the leading mobile payments platform.Mark joins BOKU after six years as the CEO of Ingenio, a service marketplace and performance advertising company, which he led to a 2007 acquisition by AT&T.Prior to Ingenio, Markspent 4 years as SVP of worldwide services and sales at Amazon.com, where he signed landmark deals with brands such as Toys R Us, Borders, Circuit City and Target.Mark's first start-up, Accept.com, was bought by Amazon.com in 1999 and served as the primary backbone of Amazon's global payments platform.Mark began his career in senior credit and risk management roles at leading national banks FirstUSA and Bank of America.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$60M |
| Angel | $1.2M–$2M |
| Series A | $6M–$31M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 19% |
| Apps | 2 | 13% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 31% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sokin | Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages! | $50M | Series B | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Sokin | Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages! | $31.4M |  | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Sokin | Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages! | $31M | Series A | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Black Ore Technologies | Black Ore Technologies is a technology-driven company currently operating in stealth mode. The company's flagship platform, Tax Autopilot, offers end-to-end 1040 tax prep automation for CPAs and tax firms | $60M | Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Bureau | Bureau is a no-code identity and risk orchestration platform that tackles friction and fraud. It assists businesses in automating decisions, onboarding good customers, preventing fraud, and enabling seamless user experiences. The platform utilizes real-time insights, instant logins, and risk profiling to secure and simplify authentication andaccelerate onboarding. Bureau provides extensive protection throughout the entire customer journey with solutions that include customer onboarding, account monitoring, device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and transaction monitoring. Its unique Identity Bureau Network utilizes contextual data to deliver actionable insights, enabling businesses to make well-informed choices regarding digital identities. | $12M | Series A | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| Yaza | We are a mission-driven public benefit corporation creating tools for the secure exchange of factual information through video. We are disrupting TV News in partnership with news organizations to help them transition to a post-television world. | $420K | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2021 |  |
| Yaza | We are a mission-driven public benefit corporation creating tools for the secure exchange of factual information through video. We are disrupting TV News in partnership with news organizations to help them transition to a post-television world. | $130K | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2020 |  |
| Yaza | We are a mission-driven public benefit corporation creating tools for the secure exchange of factual information through video. We are disrupting TV News in partnership with news organizations to help them transition to a post-television world. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2018 |  |
| ClearForce | ClearForce is an analytic technology company and leading provider of Behavioral Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS). ClearForce enables organizations to discover and act upon early behavioral indicators that signal risk to the organization, customers, co-workers, and self-harm. Our solution extends to any public or private sector use case where people createrisk. | $3.7M | Seed | Jun 04, 2018 |  |
| MONI | MONI is building the bridge between the now and the future of banking and financial services. Our mission is to provide simple low-cost mobile personal banking tools for everyone, everywhere – and credit in real-time.We do not believe in the anarchy of destructing the old, we believe in future-proof evolution. We are building a hub connectingthe current banking, payment and credit provisioning systems to new technologies such as cryptocurrencies. Our technology reduces system complexity, cuts out middlemen, reduces costs for all parties, and decreases fraud.MONI technology, accessible from any feature or smartphone, enables every citizen to identify themselves and provides them with basic financial services. Our technology works today, on any carrier network, anywhere in the world. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 11, 2015 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aurum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurum-partners-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morgan Stanley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-stanley) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Okta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okta-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About PayPal

VC Fund · San Jose, United States

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 375 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 market to join and thrive in the global economy.

5 contacts available at PayPal.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alfonso Villanueva | SVP Strategy, M&A, Ventures, CEO Office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alfonso-villanueva |
| Bill Crowley | Senior Director of Product, Commerce Services & Payouts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-crowley |
| chaloem khompitoon | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-chriss |
| John Kim | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-kim-80e0 |
| Louise Pentland | EVP Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louise-pentland |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Britto invest in?

Mark Britto invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 Mark Britto's check size?

Mark Britto typically joins rounds of $800k–$60M at Seed, $1.2M–$2M at Angel and $6M–$31M 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 Mark Britto participates in.

### How do I contact Mark Britto?

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### When did Mark Britto last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Britto closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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