# Mark Hurley

> Mark Hurley is a seed investor at Caruso (San Francisco) backing Software and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Caruso](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caruso-85d1)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hurley-83b1692a/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Markjudehurley
- Website: https://x.com/Markjudehurley
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.j.hurley

Mark Hurley is a seed investor at Caruso in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Mark Jude Hurley is based out of Dallas, Texas and is the CEO, Co-Founder & Director of Caruso. Mark previously worked at Little Giant as a CEO & Founder. Mark Jude Hurley attended the Victoria University of Wellington. Mark Jude Hurley has received recognition as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year – New Zealand Finalist (2017) and a Startup ofthe Year Finalist at the NZ Hi-Tech Awards (2024).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $578k–$2.6M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$5.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Finance | 1 | 11% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 6 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| First AML | Leaders In Outsourced AML Customer Due Diligence | $21M | Series B | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| First AML | Leaders In Outsourced AML Customer Due Diligence | $5.4M | Series A | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Narrative | Narrative empowers photographers to spend more time doing what they love. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 14, 2020 |  |
| Joyous | FROM IDEAS TO IMPACT: UNIFY PEOPLE AND DECISION MAKERSMake the best decisions using the best data. Joyous builds human relationships, and aligns people around common challenges, leveraging their ideas to make an impact.Joyous helps people talk about a specific topic that impacts them every day - right at the time decision makers are planning todo something about it. Joyous starts conversations and a real person from the organization responds.Joyous identifies actionable phrases, groups them in real-time and delivers a prioritized action plan. Joyous accelerates operational excellence, strategic program execution, transformation, tools adoption, customer experience and more.Everyone deserves to be Joyous! | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 18, 2019 |  |
| First AML | Leaders In Outsourced AML Customer Due Diligence | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2019 |  |
| Whip Around | Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days! | $4.8M | Series A | Jul 04, 2019 |  |
| Jasper | Jasper’s mission is to completely reinvent the global commercial real estate investment environment, enhancing accessibility, lowering fees and providing greater transparency & liquidity through a technology-enabled marketplace. | $578K | Seed | Feb 17, 2019 |  |
| Sharesies | Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5. |  | Seed | Nov 05, 2017 |  |
| Little Giant | Little Giant is a digitally-led creative agency based in Auckland’s CBD. Little Giant partners with clients (emerging and established) to build digital products and services, design engaging brand communications and experiences, and implement cross-channel, digitally-led campaigns.Established in 2011 and with more than 40 employees, LittleGiant is one of New Zealand’s fastest growing independent agencies. Little Giant was named one of New Zealand’s fastest growing companies in 2015 (Deloitte Fast 50), one of Asia-Pacific’s fastest growing technology companies in 2015 and 2016 (Deloitte Asia Pacific Tech Fast 500) and continues to achieve more than 60% year on year revenue growth today. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2011 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fantail Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fantail-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Caruso

VC Fund · Auckland, New Zealand

We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.

2 contacts available at Caruso.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Hurley | CEO, Co-Founder & Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-hurley-3 |
| Oliver Shaw | Co-CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-shaw |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Hurley invest in?

Mark Hurley invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mark Hurley's check size?

Mark Hurley typically joins rounds of $578k–$2.6M at Seed and $4.8M–$5.4M 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 Hurley participates in.

### When did Mark Hurley last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Hurley closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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