# Mason Ng

> Mason Ng is a seed investor at Verizon Media (San Mateo) backing Venture Capital and Mobile. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Verizon Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verizon-media)
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Mar 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masonng
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/masonng
- Website: https://x.com/masonng
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/masonngsfo
- AngelList: http://angel.co/masonng

Mason Ng is a seed investor at Verizon Media in San Mateo focused on Venture Capital and Mobile. Mason Ng - Technology and Product Leader @ Verizon Media

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture Capital | 6 | 17% |
| Mobile | 5 | 14% |
| Finance | 5 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 14% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |

68 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 34% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 23% |
| Series B | 5 | 14% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 80% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eridan | Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the sameamount of data. |  |  | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Eridan | Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the sameamount of data. | $8M | Series A | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Carta | Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at astartup.Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital.It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California. | $80M | Series D | Dec 27, 2018 |  |
| Carta | Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at astartup.Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital.It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California. | $80M | Series D | Dec 26, 2018 |  |
| NGINX | NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer.NGINX was incorporated in 2011 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $43M | Series C | Jun 20, 2018 |  |
| The Fabric | The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in thecloud/IoT infrastructure space. | $20M |  | Apr 16, 2018 |  |
| Liquid 2 Ventures | Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma. |  |  | Mar 01, 2018 |  |
| The Fabric | The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in thecloud/IoT infrastructure space. |  |  | Feb 01, 2018 |  |
| Zum | Zūm is a provider of safe, efficient, and reliable child transportation for school districts and busy families. Zūm saves schools money and parents time by providing flexible transportation options through its network of highly vetted drivers and advanced scheduling, routing, and tracking technology.The company currently provide children’stransportation service in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.Zūm was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California. |  | Series B | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| Zum | Zūm is a provider of safe, efficient, and reliable child transportation for school districts and busy families. Zūm saves schools money and parents time by providing flexible transportation options through its network of highly vetted drivers and advanced scheduling, routing, and tracking technology.The company currently provide children’stransportation service in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.Zūm was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California. | $5.5M | Series A | Aug 29, 2017 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sand Hill Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sand-hill-angels) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Amity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cantos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cantos-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evolution VC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-corporate-advisors-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Northern Light Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northern-light-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Social Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Verizon Media

VC Fund · Sunnyvale, United States

Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more. Verizon Media helps people stay informed and entertained, communicate, and transact. The company creates new ways for partners around the world to connect.

5 contacts available at Verizon Media.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alia Lamborghini | VP, Head of US Client Sales and Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alia-lamborghini |
| Giovanni Gardelli | Senior Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giovanni-gardelli |
| Mason Ng | Technology and Product Leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mason-ng |
| Anna Watkins | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-watkins |
| Anthony Winters | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-winters |

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## FAQ

### What does Mason Ng invest in?

Mason Ng invests primarily in Venture Capital, Mobile and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 35 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 Mason Ng last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mason Ng closed in Mar 2019. Shizune tracks 35 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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