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Seed Financing by Founders for Founders

As company builders and operators ourselves, we provide expertise and guidance along the journey rooted in our own experience, in addition to the capital you need to build and grow.

We are focus on investing in companies from inception through Series A.

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“Jim has been extremely helpful to us as we’ve faced the scale challenges inherent in a high growth, high velocity marketing business”

Brian Long
CO-FOUNDER, CEO
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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.”

Dan Sack
Co-founder, CEO
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“The Breakpoint operating playbook works: proven methods to develop strategy, hire great workers, and establish clear product/market fit”

Kevin Weatherman
ceo
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Incubation Portfolio

Breakpoint has been deeply involved incubating these businesses from the idea stage, marrying capital and founding team to turn a concept into a company:

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2010

MoPub was the largest mobile ad exchange and create the programmatic market for mobile advertising. MoPub was founded by Jim in 2010, raised $20mm in VC from Accel Partners and others, and was acquired by Twitter for $350mm pre-IPO in 2013.

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2016

MAX is a next generation mobile advertising platform for publishers to power monetization for the world’s mobile first content. MAX was founded in 2017 and was acquired by AppLovin in 2018.

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2012

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 has raised $7mm in Seed funding and was acquired by Snap in 2021.

Early-Stage Growth Investments

Additional early-stage and growth-stage investments in our portfolio include the following. We focus exclusively on businesses in martech, fintech, enterprise software and data infrastructure:

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Growth Opportunities Fund

We also invest in Series A and later stages through our Growth vehicles.

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Our Team

Jim Payne
General Partner

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.

Jack Kern
Venture Partner

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 Gantman
Venture Partner

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.

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Contact Us

Please drop us a line! We would love to hear more about your company.

[email protected]
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