President Barack Obama’s meeting today with top Silicon Valley executives to discuss the troubled rollout of the Healthcare.gov website, NSA call-tracking and other subjects featured some luminaries of the tech world: Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Reed Hastings from Netflix, for instance. Also on the list: Mark Pincus, the guy who runs Zynga, the company behind Farmville.

While Zynga does have a popular product, as some have noted , Pincus kind of sticks out on the list. One thing that sets him apart: He donated $1 million to Priorities USA Action , the super PAC that backed Obama in the election. He also gave an additional $104,000 to Democratic causes in 2012 — including the maximum of $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee.

He also got to sit next to Obama. And Pincus wasn’t the only lesser-known guy in the room who happens to be a big Obama fundraising name: Venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar also attended the conclave. Pishevar’s best-known investment is the upscale car service, Uber. Along with his wife, Anahita, Pishevar has donated more than $122,000 to Democrats, including Obama’s presidential campaign and the campaign of Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). More significantly, Pishevar is a bundler — one of the elite fundraisers who “bundled” campaign contributions for Obama’s presidential campaign.

According to OpenSecrets.org data, in the 2012 campaign, Pishevar was a top-tier harvester of cash, gathering up at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign.

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Images: Mark Pincus and Marissa Mayer seated with President Obama this morning. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).

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