Jim Payne
General Partner at Breakpoint Capital
Jim Payne
General Partner at Breakpoint Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, General Partner
2019 - Current
Breakpoint Capital is a seed stage investment platform, partnering with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of venture formation.
Chief Executive Officer
2019 - 2021
Facet is a business intelligence platform for real-time programmatic advertising. Facet was spun out of Snap in 2019 and acquired by Snap in 2021. Facet was financed by Breakpoint Capital.
Founder, CEO and Chairman
2016 - 2018
Platform to enable header bidding for in-app mobile advertising. Acquired by AppLovin (APP) in 2018.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2015 - 2016
Returned to Accel via their EIR program and launched Spiral, a mobile-first video consumption app in 2015. Evaluated investments and assisted Accel portfolio companies with strategy, hiring and M+A.
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
VP Exchange
2013 - 2015
Completed the commercial integration of MoPub into Twitter's advertising business post acquisition.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Founder and CEO
2010 - 2013
MoPub is the largest ad server and RTB exchange for mobile advertising. I founded MoPub to offer a world-class monetization platform for mobile apps. As CEO, I grew the company to 120 employees across three offices, and $100mm annual revenue in 2013. MoPub was financed by Accel and Harrison Metal. MoPub was acquired by Twitter in October 2013 for $700mm (Post IPO value).
MoPub is a mobile monetization platform that helps publishers drive more revenue from advertising and mobile transactions.
Raised $18,500,000.00 from IRIS, Icon Ventures, Accel, Suleman Ali, AngelPad and Harrison Metal.
Sr. Product Manager
2009 - 2010
Led ads products with a focus on performance advertisers. Designed and shipped cross-platform conversion tracking initiatives as well as behavioral and geo-locational targeting features.
Product Manager
2006 - 2009
Managed Maps/Local syndication products: doubled license fee revenue in 2008, launched local ads syndication to Maps API publisher sites. Moved to the consumer properties team and managed monetization across products including Finance and News. As a 20% project, launched Google Flu Trends through google.org. Launched and ran Google Real Time Search, which indexed Twitter and other updates and provides them as part of search results.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
BS
1996 - 2000