Investing Profile

Jim Payne

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Managing Partner at Breakpoint Capital

breakpointcap.comNew York, New York

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Networks Jim is a member of

Google Network

969 CONNECTIONS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network

556 CONNECTIONS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network

556 CONNECTIONS

New Venture Consultant Network

117 CONNECTIONS

Accel Partners Network

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Current Investing Position

Breakpoint Capital Managing Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $2.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.1M

Investments On Record

Jim Payne is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

SMB Software (Seed)SMB Software (Series A)New York City SMB Software (Pre-seed)

Jim Payne's Investments On Record (14)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Marketecture	SeedJan 2026$1M	$1M
Toma	Series AJun 2025$17M	$18M
Co-investors: Olivia Moore (Andreessen Horowitz), Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Peter Livingston (Unpopular Ventures), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Tom Blomfield
Little Umbrella	SeedJan 2025$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Joshua Lu (Andreessen Horowitz), Marco DeMiroz (The Venture Reality Fund), Mark Pincus
Layer AI	SeedDec 2023$2M	$9M
Co-investors: Akin Babayigit (Palabra.ai), Maria Kochmola (The Games Fund), Mik Attisani (Climate Insiders), Riccardo Zacconi, Dilpesh Parmar
Rill Data	SeedAug 2022$12M	$12M
Co-investors: Florian Leibert (468 Capital), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Jeff Hammerbacher (Techammer), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), John Hughes (Swiftarc Ventures), Jim McKelvey (FINTOP Capital), Caesar Djavaherian (Refract Ventures), Tobias Knaup (Nutanix), Brett Wilson (Swiftarc Ventures), Kevin Weil (Council on Foreign Relations), Gil Elbaz, Lukas Biewald
RentCheck	SeedAug 2021$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Mark Zaleski (Passion Capital), Kenneth Goldman
Optable	SeedMay 2021$4M	$24M
Co-investors: Sophie Forest (Brightspark Ventures), Alex Blum (Progress Ventures), David Yaffe
Luciq	Series AMay 2020$5M SeedJun 2016$2M	$53M
Co-investors: Ganesh Bell (Insight Partners), Rich Wong (Accel Partners), Amr Awadallah (Cloudera, Inc.), Sharif El-Badawi (500 Falcons), Georges Harik

Jim Payne's Experience

Software Engineer Visible MarketsPresent

Product Manager GooglePresent

Sr. Product Manager AdMobPresent

Sr. Product Manager AdMob Inc. (Google)Present

Sr. Product Manager New Venture ConsultantPresent

VP Exchange XPresent

Vice President, Exchange XPresent

Entrepreneur In Residence Accel PartnersPresent

Investor and Chairman MAX (Acquired by AppLovin)Present

Investor and Chairman FacetPresent

Board Member AttentivePresent

Managing General Partner Breakpoint CapitalPresent

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer MoPubPresent

CEO and Co-Founder MoPubPresent

Founder and CEO MoPubPresent

General Partner Breakpoint CapitalPresent

CEO and Founder / Chairman MAX, Inc.Present

Founder, CEO and Chairman MAX Advertising SystemsPresent

Managing Partner Breakpoint CapitalPresent

Founder, General Partner Breakpoint CapitalPresent

CEO and Founder CloudXPresent

Jim Payne's Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology bachelors, bachelor of science computer science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology BS Computer Science

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