# Mark Carges

> Mark Carges is a Series A investor at Splunk backing Travel and Fashion. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Splunk](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/splunk)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcarges
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mcarges

Mark Carges is a Series A investor at Splunk in San Francisco focused on Travel and Fashion. Mark Carges has served as a member of our board of directors since 2014.Carges currently serves on the board of directors of Magnet Systems. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer of eBay Inc., an e-commerce company, from September 2009 to September 2014. Carges was a member of the eBay Inc. leadership team since September 2008,overseeing eBay Inc.’s platform strategy, as well as having overall responsibility for technology, software development and site operations for eBay.com.Prior to joining eBay Inc., Carges was Executive Vice President, Products and General Manager, for the Business Interaction Division at BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise application infrastructure software which was acquired by Oracle in April 2008. During more than a decade at BEA, Carges held a variety of senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer.Carges began his career at Bell Labs as one of the original architects of Tuxedo, software for constructing highly scalable transaction processing applications. Carges previously served on the board of directors of Rally Software.Carges holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS from New York University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |
| Fashion | 1 | 25% |
| Lifestyle | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |
| Architecture | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Loop Commerce | Loop Commerce is driving a paradigm shift in commerce. Featuring a multi-product suite including GiftNow®, Digital Gift Cards, Corporate Gifting, and Contextual Commerce, Loop's platform is aimed at unlocking the $600B G-Commerce category. As the creator of G-Commerce, Loop powers the digital gifting strategy for world class brands likeTarget, Neiman Marcus, Coach, Uniqlo and more.Acquired by Synchrony in June 2018, Loop Commerce is currently based in Menlo Park, CA. Our flagship product, GiftNow®, integrates seamlessly into retailers'​ stores to offer gift givers a simple and thoughtful way to gift online and gift recipients the option to change the size or color of an item before it ships.Loop Commerce and GiftNow have been profiled by numerous news organizations including CNBC, CBS, USA Today, Chain Store Age and Forbes. Loop Commerce has the full backing and support of Synchrony to accelerate its growth to create something meaningful for millions of people worldwide. | $16M | Series B | Apr 28, 2015 |  |
| Loop Commerce | Loop Commerce is driving a paradigm shift in commerce. Featuring a multi-product suite including GiftNow®, Digital Gift Cards, Corporate Gifting, and Contextual Commerce, Loop's platform is aimed at unlocking the $600B G-Commerce category. As the creator of G-Commerce, Loop powers the digital gifting strategy for world class brands likeTarget, Neiman Marcus, Coach, Uniqlo and more.Acquired by Synchrony in June 2018, Loop Commerce is currently based in Menlo Park, CA. Our flagship product, GiftNow®, integrates seamlessly into retailers'​ stores to offer gift givers a simple and thoughtful way to gift online and gift recipients the option to change the size or color of an item before it ships.Loop Commerce and GiftNow have been profiled by numerous news organizations including CNBC, CBS, USA Today, Chain Store Age and Forbes. Loop Commerce has the full backing and support of Synchrony to accelerate its growth to create something meaningful for millions of people worldwide. | $12.2M | Series A | Nov 06, 2013 |  |
| Webflakes | Japanese fashion? Italian cuisine? Spanish architecture? Or maybe you’re a true French wine connoisseur? Whatever you are passionate about – you’ll find it at Webflakes! Here, they feature the most original, fascinating content from the world’s best and brightest international writers on the topics that feed your curiosity. This content iswritten in the bloggers’ native languages, and therefore has never been available to English speakers - until today! Their global community of volunteers translates this content into English, making it accessible to readers worldwide! So finally, you can access the unique and authentic voices and perceptions of international writers, and delve into your favorite topics, interests and passions - no matter what language they’re written in. | $3M | Series A | May 08, 2013 |  |
| Loop Commerce | Loop Commerce is driving a paradigm shift in commerce. Featuring a multi-product suite including GiftNow®, Digital Gift Cards, Corporate Gifting, and Contextual Commerce, Loop's platform is aimed at unlocking the $600B G-Commerce category. As the creator of G-Commerce, Loop powers the digital gifting strategy for world class brands likeTarget, Neiman Marcus, Coach, Uniqlo and more.Acquired by Synchrony in June 2018, Loop Commerce is currently based in Menlo Park, CA. Our flagship product, GiftNow®, integrates seamlessly into retailers'​ stores to offer gift givers a simple and thoughtful way to gift online and gift recipients the option to change the size or color of an item before it ships.Loop Commerce and GiftNow have been profiled by numerous news organizations including CNBC, CBS, USA Today, Chain Store Age and Forbes. Loop Commerce has the full backing and support of Synchrony to accelerate its growth to create something meaningful for millions of people worldwide. | $1M | Seed | Nov 08, 2012 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Group 11](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/group11) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zeev Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zeev-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Beanstalk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beanstalk-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PayPal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paypal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Novel TMT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novel-tmt-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wicklow Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wicklow-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Splunk

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Splunk is a cloud-first software company that provides operational intelligence software that monitors, reports, and analyzes real-time machine data for security, IT, and business. It offers a range of solutions, including advanced threat detection, incident management, cloud monitoring, security monitoring, serving manufacturing, retail, andfinancial services.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Splunk.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Hyde | Chief Strategic Advisor / Field CTO | — |
| Dan Jones | Sr. Principal Architect at Splunk | — |
| Ivo Mägi | Principal Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivo-mgi |
| Mark Carges | Member of the Board of Directors | — |
| Ori Broit | Director of Product Marketing - Cloud-Native Observability | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Carges invest in?

Mark Carges invests primarily in Travel, Fashion and Lifestyle startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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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### When did Mark Carges last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Carges closed in Apr 2015. Shizune tracks 4 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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