# Project 11 Ventures

> Project 11 Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Machine Learning. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: May 2019
- Lead investor: 31%
- Fund size: $30M
- Last fund: May 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1550903
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/p11
- Website: http://project11.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-11/121643331274738

Project 11 Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and Machine Learning. Project 11 seeks to lead a startup’s first “outside capital” round, ranging in sizes of less than $500k up to $1.5M. Post investment, the P11 partners actively collaborate with founders to accelerate growth in company value. Criteria for investment include founder domain knowledge, a demonstrated ability to lead and execute, robust team dynamicsalong with, of course, a business opportunity that allows rapid growth and scale.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $310k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $6.6M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 23% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 19% |
| Mobile | 4 | 15% |
| Analytics | 4 | 15% |
| FinTech | 3 | 12% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 69% |
| Series A | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Mason | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-mason |
| Katie Rae | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katie-rae |
| Michael Dornbrook | Advisory Committee Member | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-dornbrook |
| Reed Sturtevant | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reed-sturtevant |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mightier | Mightier is a gaming platform and family program scientifically-proven to help kids regulate their emotions. It is a bioresponsive program that harnesses the mind-body connection to build emotional regulation in its players. Its program of bioresponsive video games, developed at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, aims tohelp children with behavioral and emotional challenges learn how to harness emotions in daily life.Mightier was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $6.6M | Series A | May 21, 2019 |  |
| Forge.AI | Forge.AI's platform performs real-time monitoring of global information and is transformed and enriched by NLP technology and Knowledge Base before being syndicated into structured and machine-readable data feeds, allowing clients to access structured information that is written for human consumption. | $11M | Series A | Dec 06, 2018 |  |
| Mightier | Mightier is a gaming platform and family program scientifically-proven to help kids regulate their emotions. It is a bioresponsive program that harnesses the mind-body connection to build emotional regulation in its players. Its program of bioresponsive video games, developed at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, aims tohelp children with behavioral and emotional challenges learn how to harness emotions in daily life.Mightier was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 19, 2018 |  |
| Sentenai | Sentenai is cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data they need to make better decisions in real-time. Sentenai’s product combines distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, making them searchable in real-time.Sentenai is an early-stage startup building data infrastructurefor machine learning and predictive applications. |  | Seed | Oct 27, 2017 |  |
| Tomorrow.io | Tomorrow.io develops a SaaS Weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts. Fully customizable to any industry impacted by the weather, customers around the world including the NFL, Uber, Delta, Ford, National Grid, and more use Tomorrow.io to dramatically improve operational efficiency. Tomorrow.io was built from theground up to help teams predict the business impact of weather, streamline team communication and action plans, improve productivity, and optimize profit margins.Tomorrow.io has operations across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. |  | Seed | May 01, 2017 |  |
| TellusLabs | TellusLabs combines decades of satellite imagery with a machine learning platform to answer critical, time-sensitive economic and environmental questions. They focus on high-value sectors where they can reduce their customers’ uncertainty with results that are science-quality, global-scale, and daily-repeat. Their technology allows TellusLabs datascientists to go from concept to a customer-ready signal at an unprecedented pace.Kernel, TellusLabs' flagship product, consistently predicted USDA's final 2016 corn and soy yield report ahead of all publicly available in-season forecasts. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 17, 2017 |  |
| Airfox | Airfox is on a mission to accelerate financial inclusion for the underbanked within emerging economies. Airfox aims to create an entirely new financial services model for the underbanked that democratizes access to capital and financial services with a mobile-first solution. Airfox is a venture-backed, financial technology company based in Bostonand São Paulo. To learn more about the future of decentralized digital banking, visit www.airfox.com. |  | Seed | Aug 16, 2016 |  |
| Wise Systems | Wise Systems builds autonomous dispatch and routing software that uses machine learning to continuously improve fleet efficiency and customer service across last-mile operations in food, beverage, courier, energy, field service, and other markets. Used by some of the world’s largest brands, Wise Systems customers typically see 10-15% mileagereductions, significant increases in fleet utilization, and up to 80% decreases in late deliveries. The Wise Systems platform applies software-based logic to all orders and makes intelligent, data-driven decisions to optimize both fleet performance and customer service — processing millions of data points and making thousands of real-time decisions that would be impossible for even the most experienced human dispatcher. The system automatically schedules routes, monitors routes in progress, and intelligently adjusts to day-of delays on the ground.The company was founded out of the MIT Media Lab and Center for Transportation Logistics in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1M |  | Jun 14, 2016 |  |
| RadioPublic | 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 |  |
| Airmada | Airmada builds automated ground stations for drones. These ground stations protect the drone, replace its batteries and launch missions. Airmada deploys ground stations at the clients' sites. Once deployed, the ground stations provide persistent drone coverage and availability. The automated ground stations allow operating missions without anyhuman physical presence, thus reducing the price of drone enabled services dramatically. | $120K | Seed | Mar 22, 2016 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Project 11 Ventures invest in?

Project 11 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 Project 11 Ventures's check size?

Project 11 Ventures typically joins rounds of $310k–$3.1M at Seed and $6.6M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Project 11 Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Project 11 Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Project 11 Ventures?

The team at Project 11 Ventures includes Bob Mason (Managing Director), Katie Rae (Managing Director) and Michael Dornbrook (Advisory Committee Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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