Paul Martino

Paul is a Managing General Partner at Bullpen Capital. Paul is the founder of eight companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust);Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). Paul’s early online gaming innovations in multi-player user experience from over 30years ago are the inspiration for several of the modern social gaming offerings. He holds over a dozen patents on core social networking concepts, content targeting, and recommendation systems. Prior to forming Bullpen In 2010, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), TubeMogul (NASDAQ: TUBE), and uDemy. He sold a company into Millennial Media prior to its public offering (Condaptive),as well as to Marketo prior to Its public offering (Crowd Factory). While at Bullpen, Paul has led several of its key investments including FanDuel (merged with Flutter Entertainment (LSE:FLTR)), Swish Analytics, Jackpocket, Grove, Ipsy, SpotHero, Ocrolus, and Life360 (ASX:360). Paul served on the board of directors of FanDuel for over 5 years during a period of tremendous high growth. Paul is also active in media and press on topics of sports betting and gaming. He has been a guest on CNBC and Varney on Fox Business. He also created a film production company, 818 Media, that produced the film Inside Game. Inside Gametells the story of the 2007 NBA betting scandal in which referee Tim Donaghy's leveraged unreported inside information to wager on games including those that he officiated.