Bob Mason
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Argon Ventures
Boston, United States
Bob Mason is an investor and advisor to early stage ventures, built upon his personal experiences being part of great founding teams that created new markets and built successful, global businesses. In 2004, Bob co-founded Brightcove (NASDAQ:BCOV), a leading provider of online video services that are used by thousands of customers across theworld to publish and operate media experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs. Previously, he was a founding member of the product team at ATG, an industry leading online commerce platform. ATG went public in 1999 and was acquired by Oracle in 2011. In both roles he provided technical and product leadership for the company’s vision, strategy and design.Bob is passionate about the power of both for-profit and social impact entrepreneurs to better society and improve our local communities. To that end he mentors other startups through TechStars Boston and contributes towards “micro-genius grants” as a Trustee of The Awesome Foundation.Bob received the Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1994 and currently sits on the WPI Department of Computer Science Board of Advisors.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Bob Mason invests in
Stages Bob Mason invests in
Countries Bob Mason invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $168k–$3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.5M–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (26%)
- SaaS 3 (16%)
- Apps 2 (11%)
- Mobile 2 (11%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (21%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 16 (84%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Aliro Quantum, The Quantum Networking Company™, offers AliroNet™ to emulate, pilot, and deploy entanglement-based quantum networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includesworld-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems. AliroNet™ users include utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers who are simulating, designing, piloting, orchestrating, and building the world's first entanglement-based quantum networks.Aliro also works with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Additionally, Aliro is involved in several quantum networking standards groups at IEEE and QED-C. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Moddule is a supply chain software platform designed to simplify and automate supply chain operations for manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / May 20, 2025 | ||
| Trilobio was created to improve synthetic biology and life science research processes by building robotic lab automation modules coupled with an "app store" to package and distribute lab protocols as code. The goal is to deploy fully automated labs that dramatically improve data quality and reproducibility. | $8M / Seed / May 06, 2025 | ||
| FinTe is the only FinOps platform that tackles the problem at the systems level—empowering engineering teams to drive company-wide financial impact through code, configuration, network, and architecture optimization. By leveraging category-level intelligence and auto-attribution, we go beyond traditional hyperscalers to provide engineering andfinance teams with valuable context and a holistic understanding of their overall infrastructure spend. The FinTe co-pilot proactively flags code and architecture issues that would drive significant cost, so teams can focus on what matters most to the business. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Nov 15, 2024 | ||
| Know Faster, Invest Better MacroX is revolutionizing the way we measure the world. Unlike traditional methods that have a lag of 1-3 months for economic metrics, and 1-3 years for societal metrics, our multimodal AI engine crunches alternative data to generate a real-time picture of the world. With unprecedented scale that covers almost the entireplanet, and incredible granularity that is detailed at the city level, our platform is able to provide 10-20% more accurate measurements than governments. Top institutional clients use us for a substantial edge in the markets. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| PeakMetrics provides a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats. Using state-of-the-art ML technology, PeakMetrics analyzes more than 1.5 million media sources and 10 different social media platforms to identify media manipulation and adversarial attacks inreal-time, before they cause damage. Organizations use PeakMetrics to discern source credibility, understand how audiences spread narratives, and quantify risk and response scenarios — without spending millions on crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Detect, decipher, defend at peakmetrics.com.The internet is manipulated. Narratives are engineered, accelerated by AI, and amplified by algorithms before most organizations even see them coming. PeakMetrics is an AI-powered narrative intelligence platform built to help enterprises, agencies, and public sector organizations see through it. We built AI agents that surface where threats are coming from, who is driving them, and where they are headed next, so teams can protect their brand, their reputation, and their bottom line before it reaches the headlines. | $3M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Trilobio was created to improve synthetic biology and life science research processes by building robotic lab automation modules coupled with an "app store" to package and distribute lab protocols as code. The goal is to deploy fully automated labs that dramatically improve data quality and reproducibility. | $3M / Seed / Nov 29, 2023 | ||
| Stockpress is a cloud file management platform that helps teams to organize, find, collaborate on and share any file type, of any file size from anywhere in the world. Stockpress is intuitive, easy to use, and quick to implement. The platform combines the most powerful features from Digital Asset Management (DAM) with the ease of use oftraditional file management. Stockpress takes a uniquely collaborative "workspace" based approach that offers unlimited users with every package. This makes it possible for businesses of all sizes, from SMB to Enterprise, to add as many internal and external users at they need, assign them to teams and give them custom permissions to control what files they can access, what they can do with them and how you can collaborate together.Unlike other file management platforms, Stockpress also acts to actively inform the asset creation strategy, rather than being a passive platform, simply used to store files. This is something that sets Stockpress apart in the category. | $1.8M / Seed / Oct 09, 2023 | ||
| Gigasheet delivers healthcare market intelligence powered by AI and the industry’s most comprehensive price transparency data. The platform ingests and analyzes billions of payer and provider rate records from Transparency in Coverage datasets, structuring them into usable, queryable intelligence. Its AI models benchmark rates, identify outliers,and surface savings or growth opportunities automatically. Users can combine their own claims or network data within a scalable, spreadsheet-like interface to generate consultant-level insights without engineering effort. Gigasheet’s technology turns complex healthcare pricing data into fast, explainable intelligence that drives smarter contracting and network decisions. | $7M / Series A / Jun 02, 2022 | ||
| RadioPublic is a game-changing resource for startup capital, resources, and expertise for podcasters. We help you discover new podcasts and make it easy to hear all your favorites too. | Seed / Apr 26, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Argon Ventures
Argon Ventures amplifies founder energy to launch and build impactful global businesses based on cutting-edge technologies. Argon VC seeks founding teams that marry deep industry insight with novel technology platforms that often leverage proprietary data.
Argon Ventures Contacts
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Partner
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Bob Mason
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What does Bob Mason invest in?
Bob Mason invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bob Mason's check size?
Bob Mason typically joins rounds of $168k–$3M at Seed and $1.5M–$5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bob Mason participates in.
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When did Bob Mason last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bob Mason closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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