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Tom Mastrobuoni

Chief Investment Officer at Big Idea Ventures

Essex County, New Jersey

Overview 

Tom Mastrobuoni is the Chief Investment Officer at Big Idea Ventures, overseeing the New Protein Fund and BIV Strategic Opportunities Fund, with a focus on investing in food and beverage companies at Series A and Series B stages. He has served on multiple boards of innovative companies like Bayou Best Foods and has invested in successful startups such as Wild Earth and New Wave Foods.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2024 - Current

  • Board Observer

    2024

Supercharger is a data automation company for investors and financial institutions.

Raised $1,000,000.00 from Big Idea Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board Member

    2024

DisSolves exists to fill the gaps left by current packaging by introducing their convenient, dissolvable packaging.

Raised $75,000.00 from Innovation Works.

  • Member Board of Directors

    2023

  • Chief Investment Officer

    2020

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - 2020

    Big Idea Ventures is focused on solving the world's greatest challenges by backing the world's best entrepreneurs. I will be heading up BIV's second fund effort aimed at transforming the food industry.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2019 - 2019

Solving the world's greatest challenges by backing the world's best entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers

  • Senior Advisor (former Chief Financial Officer)

    2015

    Senior financial officer responsible for firm operations and accounting and reporting. Advance Vixeid Partners ("AVP") is an independent venture capital firm that combines the disciplined approach of an institutional growth equity investor with the strategic insights, access and impact made possible by a high-value strategic partner. We call this unique approach to investing Strategic Growth Capital. AVP invests in early growth companies at the intersection of technology, media and marketing that can benefit from the firm’s strategic relationship with Advance Publications, Inc. ("Advance") - one of the world’s premier global media franchises and AVP's lead investor.

  • Guest Lecturer

    2019

    Guest lecturer providing insights into corporate venture capitalism

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