Mark James

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Co-founder & COO at Loom Commerce · HR software · HR tech, sales

Loom Commerce
Austin, TX · CT (UTC-6)
10+ years experience
Boston University
English
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Loom Commerce (HR software). 10 years of building before that. Raised $38 million across 2 rounds. Coffee nerd.

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Raising a $15M seed for clinical documentation for Indian SMBs

Stage
Seed
Raising
$15M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$502k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$184k MRR after 13 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$184k MRR after 13 months. Looking for investors who know AI infrastructure and can help with enterprise sales.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Loom Commerce · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Took Loom Commerce from zero to $8 million ARR.
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
    Pinterest · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Backed 28 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
    American Express · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 43% in two quarters.
    • Moved 71% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
    Instacart · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Led or co-led 29 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 4 boards.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Economics
    2011 - 2015

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