# Ross Mason

> Ross Mason is a seed investor at SignalFire (Geneva) backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 67 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire)
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
- Total investments: 67
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-mason/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rossmason
- Website: https://x.com/rossmason

Ross Mason is a seed investor at SignalFire in Geneva focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Ross Mason is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the Founding Partner of DIG Ventures . Ross previously worked at MuleSoft as a Founder. Ross Mason attended the University of the West of England. Ross Mason has been awarded as a Top 25 CTO.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$9.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$3.2M |
| Series A | $5M–$99M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 24% |
| Software | 14 | 21% |
| SaaS | 9 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 13% |
| Analytics | 7 | 10% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 43% |
| Series A | 14 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 9% |
| Series B | 6 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 16% |
| Germany | 3 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Finland | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Taktile | Taktile develops an AI-based decision platform for financial institutions to manage risk-related processes across the customer lifecycle. Its platform enables teams to design, test, deploy, and optimize decision strategies for customer onboarding, credit underwriting, fraud detection, anti-money laundering investigations, and transactionmonitoring. Taktile combines automated workflows, configurable business rules, third-party data integrations, and human review capabilities to support decision-making in regulated environments. The platform also provides tools for experimentation, performance monitoring, and case management, allowing organizations to evaluate and refine their decision processes over time. Taktile serves banks, insurers, and financial technology companies seeking to automate and govern operational and risk decisions. | $110M | Series C | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Dash0 | Dash0 primary focus will be on correlating and contextualizing issues to look beyond the limitations of telemetry silos. The company firmly believes that more data doesn't always lead to more insights and often results in significant costs. It was founded in 2023 and is located in New York, New York. | $110M | Series B | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Dash0 | Dash0 primary focus will be on correlating and contextualizing issues to look beyond the limitations of telemetry silos. The company firmly believes that more data doesn't always lead to more insights and often results in significant costs. It was founded in 2023 and is located in New York, New York. | $35M | Series A | Oct 02, 2025 |  |
| Swarmia | Data-driven superpowers for software teams | $11.5M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Dash0 | Dash0 primary focus will be on correlating and contextualizing issues to look beyond the limitations of telemetry silos. The company firmly believes that more data doesn't always lead to more insights and often results in significant costs. It was founded in 2023 and is located in New York, New York. | $9.5M | Seed | Nov 05, 2024 |  |
| Desia | Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services. | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Desia | Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| PolyAPI | Poly is a powerful platform that empowers development teams to streamline their API discovery and consumption process. With Poly, developers can quickly and easily discover known company-wide APIs right inside their IDEs using an AI powered discovery service, and consume them as local functions through a dynamic cross-API client library.Additionally, integration logic can be abstracted into a Lambda-like service, simplifying the development process. Poly even offers the ability to teach new APIs if they are not already integrated. Companies with a plethora of APIs and consumers, or those looking to enhance their developer ecosystem, can benefit greatly from Poly's comprehensive API management capabilities.View Demo Here: https://vimeo.com/833426228 | $4.1M | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Swarmia | Data-driven superpowers for software teams |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| DLT (short for data load tool) | DLT short for data load tool building exactly that open-source python library that it claims, is designed for this new wave of AI. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 20, 2023 |  |

10 of 67 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [DIG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dig-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About SignalFire

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage companies and breakout companies. The company focuses on providing data-driven insights and tailored advisory programs across various sectors, including health, fintech, and cybersecurity.

5 contacts available at SignalFire.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Scoggins | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-scoggins |
| Elaine Zelby | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaine-zelby |
| Jim Stoneham | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-stoneham |
| Josh Constine | Principal investor and Head Of Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-constine |
| Alex Garden | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-garden |

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## FAQ

### What does Ross Mason invest in?

Ross Mason invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 67 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 Ross Mason's check size?

Ross Mason typically joins rounds of $1M–$9.5M at Seed, $1M–$3.2M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$99M 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 Ross Mason participates in.

### When did Ross Mason last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ross Mason closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 67 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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