Venture Capital for Founders, by Founders
Founded by Jim Payne, Breakpoint Capital is a seed investment vehicle that incubates and invests in companies at the earliest stages, from incubation to Seed and Series A.
As company builders and operators ourselves, we provide both capital and expertise for founders embarking on the company building journey.
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Jim is an incredible advisor to founders due to his first-hand experience as an entrepreneur and deal maker. I consider Jim a lifelong mentor—someone I’ll continue to reach out to long after the Highlight journey.
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“From product roadmaps to hiring, Jim and Breakpoint helped me transform each OKR from something intimidating into something I felt confident attacking.”
“Jim has been extremely helpful to us as we’ve faced the scale challenges inherent in a high growth, high velocity marketing business”
Founder Track Record
The Breakpoint Capital investment team is comprised of the founders and early employees of these notable businesses:
MoPub was the largest mobile ad exchange and create the programmatic market for mobile advertising. MoPub was founded by BPC founder Jim Payne in 2010, raised $20mm in VC from Accel Partners and others, and was acquired by Twitter for $350mm pre-IPO in 2013.
MAX is a next generation mobile advertising platform for publishers to power monetization for the world’s mobile first content. Jim founded MAX in 2017 and hired early MoPub team member Dan Sack to run the company as CEO. MAX was acquired by AppLovin (APP) in 2018.
Facet is a data visualization platform that allows users to explore their streaming revenue data without writing complex SQL queries or waiting for reports. Facet was spun out of Snap in a BPC led transaction, raised $7mm in Seed funding and was re-acquired by Snap in 2021.
Investment Portfolio
Breakpoint Capital also invests in traditional minority investment rounds, typically at the Seed stage, and also later stage through SPVs. Highlights include:
Our Team
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Founder and CEO of MoPub, acquired by Twitter in 2013 for $700mm post-IPO, Jim launched Breakpoint Capital in 2018. Prior to MoPub, Jim was a product manager at Google. Jim has a BS Computer Science from MIT.
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Jack led buy-side business development for MoPub and MAX. After MAX, Jack joined The Trade Desk to lead their CTV efforts. Jack has a B.A in Business Management and a B.A in Psychology from Gettysburg College.
Micah led camera and augmented reality product and partnerships for Snapchat. Earlier, he ran all client and partner facing parts of the organization at TUNE, a mobile marketing analytics SaaS platform. Micah has a B.A. in Graphic Design from Washington State University.
Contact Us
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