Mark Pincus

Mark Pincus is a California-based technology entrepreneur, born in 1966, who built his wealth as the founder of Zynga, the social-gaming company behind FarmVille. Zynga reached more than one billion users before being acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2022. He has an estimated net worth of ~$1.4 billion. NewsAPI RTB

Business & SEC Activity

SEC records associate Pincus with Zynga and several other companies, including Reinvent Technology Partners, Hippo Holdings and Reinvent Sponsor LLC. The SEC lists 59 insider filings for him; Form 4 reports transactions by company insiders, while Schedule 13G/A reports certain ownership stakes. His recent listed filings include both types, with Form 4 filings through May 2022. SEC EDGAR

Philanthropy

In tax year 2023, the Pincus Family Foundation in Delaware reported $101.8 million in assets and $6.9 million in grants paid. A separate Pincus Family Foundation in Michigan reported $55,915 in assets and $5,000 in grants paid; together, the two foundations reported $101.8 million in assets and $6.9 million in grants paid. Pincus is a signatory to The Giving Pledge. ProPublica 990 Giving Pledge

Political Activity

The available FEC data covers only the most recent 100 contributions on file, and shows at least 100 federal contributions. These sampled records totaled $2,899,500, including $1,208,200 categorized as Democratic and $1,691,300 categorized as unknown; the largest listed recipients were Harris Victory Fund ($929,600), Biden Victory Fund ($720,600) and the Democratic National Committee ($431,100). FEC

In the News

A July 2026 TechCrunch report said Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, was in talks to raise $100 million. In August 2026, Fortune reported that Pincus had written a book, Life at the Speed of Play, and was discussing the limits of AI in product creation. NewsAPI GDELT