Mark Pincus
Angel Investor @ Workplay Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Mark Pincus is a seed investor at Workplay Ventures in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Internet. Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 103
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
Last updated:
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Industries Mark Pincus invests in
Stages Mark Pincus invests in
Countries Mark Pincus invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$10M
- Series A
- $2.7M–$40M
- Series B
- $8.5M–$116M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 12 (12%)
- Internet 12 (12%)
- Software 11 (11%)
- Financial Services 9 (9%)
- Information Technology 9 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 45 (44%)
- Series A 29 (28%)
- Series B 7 (7%)
- Funding Round 6 (6%)
- Angel 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 77 (75%)
- Canada 5 (5%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
- China 1 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $75M / Series B / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| SalesPatriot serves as an advanced back-office operating system tailored for companies within the defense sector. | $5M / Seed / Oct 26, 2025 | ||
| PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data. | $5M / Seed / Jul 30, 2025 | ||
| Paraform is a marketplace approach to recruiting that turns anyone into your recruiter. On their marketplace, tech startups can post bounties for open roles, and anyone – professional recruiter or otherwise – can collect it by successfully referring a candidate. Their customers are currently some of the most innovative and exciting tech startups inthe industry, from seed stage startups that just went through Y Combinator to unicorns like better.com. They raised funding from world-class investors like the co-founders of Twitch, leadership at Scale AI, Founders, Inc., and Primer Sazze Partners. | $20M / Series A / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| Schemata is a three-dimensional content creation company intended to help the Department of Defense and enterprises. | $5M / Seed / May 13, 2025 | ||
| Little Umbrella offers popular game genres with AI and personalized gameplay experiences ideal for all ages. | $2M / Seed / Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| Substack offers a platform that enables writers to publish and monetize subscription-based newsletters. The company provides tools for content creation, email distribution, subscription management, and audience analytics. Writers retain ownership of their work and can set their own subscription prices, while readers receive content directly intheir inboxes. Substack also supports podcasting and discussion threads, expanding its services beyond traditional text-based publishing. The platform is used by journalists, authors, and creators who seek a direct relationship with their audience without relying on traditional media channels. Through its ecosystem, Substack facilitates independent publishing and helps writers build sustainable businesses around their content. | $10M / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Troveo AI allows content creators to turn their videos into passive income by licensing them to AI companies that require quality content for model training. The platform helps upload videos and secure revenue through licensing deals with firms interested in training AI models, benefiting both the creators and the AI industry. Troveo AI aidscreators in regaining control over their content and ensures they get compensated for its use, addressing issues of piracy. | $4.5M / Seed / Nov 01, 2024 | ||
| Echo Chunk builds epic strategy games that generate themselves. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| Polymarket enables participants to buy and sell shares that represent the probability of specific outcomes, with prices ranging between zero and one dollar to reflect market expectations. Trades occur in a peer-to-peer order book where users transact directly with one another rather than with a central counterparty. Polymarket uses USDC.e ascollateral and represents positions as conditional tokens that are settled through smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain. Event outcomes are resolved through a decentralized oracle process that verifies results before distributing payouts to holders of winning shares. The platform uses a non-custodial model where participants maintain control of their assets through personal wallets while all transactions and positions remain publicly verifiable onchain. | $55M / Jul 01, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Workplay Ventures
Investing across asset classes. Major areas of interest include AI/ML, gaming (mobile, PC, console), social networks and platforms, and web3.
Workplay Ventures Contacts
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Kevin Liang
Chief of Staff
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FAQ
What does Mark Pincus invest in?
Mark Pincus invests primarily in FinTech, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 103 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 Pincus's check size?
Mark Pincus typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$10M at Seed, $2.7M–$40M at Series A and $8.5M–$116M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mark Pincus participates in.
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When did Mark Pincus last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mark Pincus closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 103 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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