Mark Mullen

Co-Founder Bonfire Ventures

📍 Los Angeles, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 34 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Nov 2025
Odynn is an AI, fully modular infrastructure platform that helps fintechs, banks, card issuers, and travel companies launch embedded travel, loyalty, and rewards programs. Its white-label solution, APIs, and agentic AI drive cardholder engagement while unlocking new revenue streams. Think AI Shopify for loyalty and travel. Current travel loyalty programs offer limited customizations, low engagement, high development cost, and lack of embedded financial features. Odynn makes your cardholders stickier and generates significant revenue in a way that makes them happy! Odynn increases retention and reduces churn, increases card spend, reduces CAC, provides diversified revenue, and ultimately increases customer lifetime value. Our B2B partners can: License our loyalty pricing and/or Traveler DNA APIs for standard SaaS fees Embed our holistic travel portal as a white label, where we pay our partners upwards of 75% of the net travel booking commissions Embed our Agentic AI Travel Concierge into their existing chatbots via API or white label or stand up a new one, where we pay our partners upwards of 75% of the net travel booking commissions Subscribe to our loyalty pricing data priced per volume
Board Member
Mar 2025
Teads Holding Co. (“Teads”) (Nasdaq: TEAD) is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1700 people in 30+ countries.
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Dec 2024
Abstract is a policy intelligence platform for legislation and regulation; it will tell you specifically what policy impacts you, how it impacts you, and what you need to do moving forward.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Debt is complicated - Cascade makes it easy. An all-in-one platform purpose built to help companies around the world prepare for, raise, and manage debt from institutional investors. We help companies leverage asset-backed debt facilities, venture debt, on-balance sheet loans, securitizations, and more as an avenue to smart growth.
Seed Investor
Jun 2023
Maximise Google PMax Performance Upp.ai interprets billions of product and market data points to allow you to successfully deploy more Ad budget across a wider range of products while minimising management overhead. With the introduction of Google Performance Max, the retail digital landscape has changed and advertising teams now need the support of AI and machine learning (ML) to deliver against business goals. Our AI platform provides 24 x 7 management of Google Performance Max aligning ROAS, budget, products, assets and campaigns that align with business strategy across all inventory, complexity and scale. Unlock the power of Upp.ai to manage unlimited SKU’s, analysing 7Bn data points, and making nearly 7K changes on Google Shopping every single day.
Board Member
Nov 2022
We are a leading North American software solution provider for dental practices that are looking to increase their production, by automating the RCM process. Our software solutions help dental practices effortlessly deliver comprehensive and educational dental treatment plans that patients can understand, accept and schedule an appointment on any device. We automate the insurance verification process, reducing the time to verify patients by 90%, and decrease days to pay on outstanding invoices through digital payments and automated collections. Zuub’s secure and HIPAA compliant platform installs in minutes and pulls all the required data from your existing practice management system with no added work required from the office staff.
Board Member
Sep 2022
CalmWave™ improves healthcare through data science. Tackling #AlarmFatigue & #NurseRetention with AI-driven insights. #OperationsHealth #StopTheNoise #CalmWave
Board Member
Jul 2022
The market leading AI-powered speech and text analytics platform for contact centers. Unlock real-time insights, enhance operational efficiency, and improve customer experiences at scale without a single minute of human powered analysis.
Board Member
Jan 2022
KATA is your progress debugger for projects and teams. Eliminate Information Silos. Stay Aligned Async. Get Back To Building. Check out our newly launched engineering manager handbook: https://getkata.com/handbook Its the practical hands-on information no one else writes down!
Board Member
Nov 2021
Crypto payments and transaction reporting: fast, easy, and accurate. Here's what you'll get with Gilded: • Crypto Accounting & Reports • Crypto Invoicing • Crypto Payments • NFT Sales Reporting Request a demo with a Gilded expert to learn more.
Board Member
Nov 2020
We are a bunch of engineers and finance folks seeking to democratize finance by building AI-driven finance tools. Brightflow AI integrates with many platforms to get a full financial picture of thousands of businesses and automate anything a financial analyst or CFO would do.
Board Member
Jun 2020
Figment is the leading independent provider of staking infrastructure. With $17 billion assets under stake, Figment provides the complete staking solution for over 1000 institutional clients including asset managers, exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders, to earn rewards on their digital assets. Figment is the largest non-custodial staking provider of staked Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL). Institutional staking services from Figment include seamless point-and-click staking, portfolio reward tracking, API integrations, audited infrastructure, and slashing protection. This all leads to Figment’s mission to support the adoption, growth, and long-term success of the digital asset ecosystem. To learn more about Figment, please visit figment.io.
Board Member
Jun 2018
Goodbye Churn, Hello Growth! Early Warning System to predict churn, get visibility to retain customers, prioritize accounts to increase upsells, and grow revenue With the most up to date data, recommendations for action & collaboration across the customer journey, teams can proactively deliver an amazing customer experience
Board Member
Jun 2018
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Feb 2018
Credit Keys patent-protected solutions deliver superior business credit,
 in seconds, at B2B point of purchase. Our proprietary underwriting and decisioning allows for real-time decisions for lines of credit at point of purchase. Credit Key helps merchants: - Increase revenue - Convert more customers - Lower costs - Improve cash flow - Deliver a great customer experience Credit Key’s standalone module overlays the merchant’s shopping cart, keeping users on site. Platforms currently supported: Magento, IBM, Shopify, Demandware, Onestop and custom .Net platforms.
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Nov 2025
Odynn is an AI, fully modular infrastructure platform that helps fintechs, banks, card issuers, and travel companies launch embedded travel, loyalty, and rewards programs. Its white-label solution, APIs, and agentic AI drive cardholder engagement while unlocking new revenue streams. Think AI Shopify for loyalty and travel. Current travel loyalty programs offer limited customizations, low engagement, high development cost, and lack of embedded financial features. Odynn makes your cardholders stickier and generates significant revenue in a way that makes them happy! Odynn increases retention and reduces churn, increases card spend, reduces CAC, provides diversified revenue, and ultimately increases customer lifetime value. Our B2B partners can: License our loyalty pricing and/or Traveler DNA APIs for standard SaaS fees Embed our holistic travel portal as a white label, where we pay our partners upwards of 75% of the net travel booking commissions Embed our Agentic AI Travel Concierge into their existing chatbots via API or white label or stand up a new one, where we pay our partners upwards of 75% of the net travel booking commissions Subscribe to our loyalty pricing data priced per volume
Board Member
Mar 2025
Teads Holding Co. (“Teads”) (Nasdaq: TEAD) is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1700 people in 30+ countries.
Board Member
Mar 2025
Outbrain (Nasdaq: OB) is a leading technology platform that drives business results by engaging people across the open internet. Outbrain predicts moments of engagement to drive measurable outcomes for advertisers and publishers using AI and machine learning across more than 8,000 online properties globally. Founded in 2006, Outbrain is headquartered in New York with offices in Israel and across the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.
2024
Board Member
Dec 2024
Abstract is a policy intelligence platform for legislation and regulation; it will tell you specifically what policy impacts you, how it impacts you, and what you need to do moving forward.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Debt is complicated - Cascade makes it easy. An all-in-one platform purpose built to help companies around the world prepare for, raise, and manage debt from institutional investors. We help companies leverage asset-backed debt facilities, venture debt, on-balance sheet loans, securitizations, and more as an avenue to smart growth.
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