David Marcus

Cofounder, CEO at Lightspark

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David Marcus is the co-founder and CEO of Lightspark, and was previously the co-founder of the Facebook-initiated cryptocurrency project Diem, as well as the former president of PayPal and vice president of messaging products at Facebook.

Work Experience

Lightspark

Cofounder, CEO

PayPal

Investments

Roxom

Bitcoin denominated markets

Name	Round	Valuation	Amount	Date
Roxom	Pre-Seed	--	$ 4.3 M	Jul 24, 2024

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