Bob Mason
Managing Director at Project 11
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2023 - Current
Stockpress is a collaborative file management platform that allows teams to organize, collaborate on and share files of any type or size.
Raised $2,414,999.00 from Argon Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, Two Lanterns Venture Capital, Stage 2 Capital, deftly.vc and York IE.
Board Member
2022
Trilobio is on a mission to improve the processes of synthetic biology and life science research by building robotic lab automation modules coupled with an “app store” that will package and distribute lab protocols as code.
Robotics & Synthetic Biology
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Alec Nielsen, Argon Ventures, Climate Capital Bio, 1517 Fund, Sridhar Iyengar, Lowercarbon Capital and Nucleus Capital.
Board Member
2021
Gigasheet is a startup committed to building data analytics products that are beautiful and useful. Our global team is creating magical software that enables analysts to interrogate massive data sets, and pinpoint insights in minutes instead of hours.
Gigasheet enables business users to effortlessly explore and analyze massive datasets via a user-friendly, spreadsheet-like interface.
Raised $8,800,000.00 from Rich Miner, Founder Collective, REV, Dmitri Alperovitch, Koa Labs, Argon Ventures and Accomplice.
Managing Partner
2020
On a mission to amplify founder energy to launch cutting-edge technologies and build impactful, global businesses. Focused on pre-seed with the sector of Intelligent Industry Solutions - the applied use of deep tech within vertical applications and platform.
Argon Ventures amplifies founder energy to launch and build impactful global businesses based on cutting-edge technologies.
Managing Director
2014
Project 11 Ventures leads seed investments in Boston-based software and technology startups.
Mentor
2011
I hope to help entrepreneurs refine their product, go-to-market strategy and share life lessons to build a successful company.
Techstars Boston Investment Team
2012 - 2014
Member of the investment committee, sourcing & selection for 32 companies across 3 cohorts; Developed product & technical mentor network; Exit(s): PillPack $1B to Amazon, Codeship to Cloudbees, tbh to Facebook, Careport Health to Allscripts
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Board Member
2015 - 2021
SDN for hyper-scale IT, enabling near real time service provisioning.
Board Member
2016 - 2021
Radio Public is reinventing radio through podcasts, with a premium audio app experience that enables listeners to discover and engage with the shows they love.
RadioPublic is a game-changing resource for startup capital, resources, and expertise for podcasters.
Raised $1,200,000.00 from TechNexus Venture Collaborative and Bose Ventures.
Board Member
2015 - 2018
TVision Insights integrates performance-based metrics with advanced audience measurement technology to provide actionable insights into television audience behavior. TVision leverages state-of-the-art computer vision technology to collect viewers’ demographics, attentiveness and emotional analysis by analyzing data from sensors in the living room.
TVision is an audience measurement company that provides information on TV and cable television viewer engagement.
Raised $56,700,000.00 from Golden Ventures, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), iSpot.tv, Accomplice, Golden Ventures, SIG China (SIG Asia Investments), Jump Capital, Accomplice and BRC Innovation.
Board Member
2014 - 2016
Dashbell provides independent lodgings with a SaaS platform that allows them to both manage their reservations and availability as well as distribute through their global partners.
Dashbell is the OpenTable for Independent Accommodations
Raised $1,178,000.00 from Right Side Capital Management.
Education
BS
1990 - 1994