# Mark Charkin

> Mark Charkin is a angel investor backing Advertising and Apps. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Sep 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markcharkin
- Website: https://x.com/markcharkin

Mark Charkin is a angel investor in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Advertising and Apps. Mark is a leading digital and social media executive.He has worked with both multinational corporations and start-ups. Mark Charkin, Chief Revenue Officer of The Exchange Lab, is responsible for scaling global revenue and overseeing the company’s advertising strategy. Mark is both a proven digital business leader and a digital mediapioneer, with over 15 years of experience leading sales organizations in Europe, Asia, and the United States.During his career, Mark has focused on driving the bottom line for early stage companies in the online, social, casual gaming and mobile space, and has a long track record of success in building and leading companies from inception to multi-million dollar exits.Prior to joining The Exchange Lab, Mark was EVP Advertising and business development at King, creators of Candy Crush Saga. In this role, Mark was part of the executive team responsible for building and managing the entire advertising and business development units globally. During his tenure, King grew from 10 million to over 200 million monthly players, while advertising revenue grew over 1000%, cementing King’s position the largest casual game group globally.Prior to King, Mark was VP Global Sales at Bebo, the Social Network where he joined as the first commercial employee, went on to devise the company’s pioneering engagement model of advertising, and was part of the executive team that led Bebo’s record breaking $850 million acquisition to AOL Time Warner. He has also held senior management positions at MSN and Lycos, where he was EMEA Regional Sales Director and Head Of Sales respectively.Mark regularly speaks at industry events such as Cannes, IAB, Adtech, and DMEXCO and has been an advisor to a multitude of incubators, VCs and early stage ventures including DN Capital, Chime Ventures, BrightRoll, Seed Camp, Endemol, Moviepilot and Rippll.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 2 | 100% |
| Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Video | 1 | 50% |
| Mobile | 1 | 50% |
| Retail | 1 | 50% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darabase | Darabase is the AR Outdoor Media Company, a turnkey platform and solution for brands, advertisers and retailers wanting to run immersive Augmented Reality Outdoor Media, layered on the real world.We augment existing outdoor media screens and billboards, deliver permission-based AR campaigns in iconic locations and provide scale geographiccoverage through our "Run of World" AR inventory network.We help retailers use AR to drive footfall and sales and enable property companies to monetise their estate, while monitoring what AR content is being placed and viewed in their locations. | $804K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2020 | https://www.darabase.com |
| Samba Networks | Samba re-defines advertising for mobile, delivering better engagement stats for brands, better yields for publishers and more choice for viewers of brand advertising.Samba 'hyper-targets' smartphone users by age, gender, device type, and operating system. They encourage social feedback, sharing and clicks, driving earned media. Theyuse a selector model to drive consumer engagement, empowering viewers.An empowered viewer is an engaged viewer. Clicks and shares on Samba's network are well in excess of industry norms |  | Angel |  | http://www.sambanetworks.com |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Charkin invest in?

Mark Charkin invests primarily in Advertising, Apps and Video startups, most often at Angel and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Mark Charkin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Charkin closed in Sep 2020. Shizune tracks 2 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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