# Brian J. Girvan

> Brian J. Girvan is a Series B investor at Verivo Software backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Verivo Software](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verivo-software)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2014
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Brian J. Girvan is a Series B investor at Verivo Software in Boston focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Brian joined Ascent in 2003. As general partner, he leads investments and applies his 30 years of experience in the financial services industry to help the firm’s portfolio companies with a focus on financial technology, mobility, and internet services including Cargo Metrics, Placemark Investments, TimeTrade, and Verivo. In addition, Brianoversees the firm’s finance and reporting team.Before joining Ascent, Brian was COO and CFO at Argo Global Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in wireless technologies based in Wakefield, MA. He also served as a senior vice president and group CFO of Fidelity Investment’s operating unit, FPIBG, which included Fidelity’s retail mutual funds and brokerage businesses, and their Capital Markets, Institutional Brokerage, and Registered Investment Advisory businesses. While at Fidelity, Brian also was CFO of FIIS, Fidelity’s intermediary-based mutual funds division and was a Senior Vice President and Division Executive of their Institutional Brokerage division. Prior to Fidelity, he was a Senior Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of an investment management firm, Affiliated Managers Group, which he helped to take public. He was also a Senior Vice President and CFO of an investment management firm, PIMCO Advisors, which he helped to take public, as well.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 15% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile | 1 | 8% |
| Retail | 1 | 8% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Knoa Software | Knoa® Software delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights to increase the performance and optimize the end-user experience of SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Knoa's patented software provides CIOs and business executives the actionable metrics needed to ensure their organizations and users realize the full value oftheir enterprise application investment. Headquartered in Union Square, New York, Knoa’s solutions have helped hundreds of global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end users. | $5.1M | Series B | Jul 29, 2014 |  |
| Verivo Software | Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps –rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives. | $4M |  | Apr 19, 2013 |  |
| Knoa Software | Knoa® Software delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights to increase the performance and optimize the end-user experience of SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Knoa's patented software provides CIOs and business executives the actionable metrics needed to ensure their organizations and users realize the full value oftheir enterprise application investment. Headquartered in Union Square, New York, Knoa’s solutions have helped hundreds of global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end users. | $7.5M | Series A | Dec 03, 2012 |  |
| Verivo Software | Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps –rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives. | $17M |  | Jan 10, 2012 |  |
| TimeTrade | Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwidecloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments. | $5.6M | Series D | Sep 24, 2010 |  |
| Verivo Software | Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps –rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives. | $2M | Series B | Dec 04, 2007 |  |
| TimeTrade | Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwidecloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments. | $5M | Series C | Sep 24, 2007 |  |
| Bluesocket | Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications. | $9M |  | Feb 24, 2006 |  |
| Verivo Software | Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps –rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives. | $5.2M | Series A | Sep 09, 2005 |  |
| Bluesocket | Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications. | $10M | Series B | Jan 17, 2005 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Egan-Managed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/egan-managed-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Boulder Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boulder-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Advantage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Commonwealth Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonwealth-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Verivo Software

VC Fund · Waltham, United States

Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps –rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives.

4 contacts available at Verivo Software.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Mazzarella | Chairman of the Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-mazzarella |
| Brian J. Girvan | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-j-girvan |
| Christopher P Willis | CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-p-willis |
| T.L. Neff | EVP, Global Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-l-neff |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian J. Girvan invest in?

Brian J. Girvan invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brian J. Girvan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian J. Girvan closed in Jul 2014. Shizune tracks 13 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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