Mark leads investments focusing largely on fintech and application SaaS. He is especially interested in fintech infrastructure, verticalized payment workflows, and SaaS tools disrupting legacy incumbents. Mark is the board member or lead investor from Index in a number of companies including RevenueCat, Loop, Mercantile, and Catch.
Following a years-long venture capital (VC) bull market that saw FinTech startups raise billions of dollars in funding, the challenging macroeconomic market has led to a sharpened focus on belt-tightening, with firms now under mounting pressure from investors to have a clearer path to profitability.
A big learning for me is that if you spread yourself too thin, you might do everything at 60% versus [focusing on] the two or three ancillary core products that you can do at 100% and do well.