# Stephen K. Smith > Stephen K. Smith is a Series B investor at Masthead Venture Partners backing Enterprise Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact… - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Masthead Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masthead-venture-partners) - Total investments: 2 - Last investment: Feb 2008 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenksmith - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sksmithusa Stephen K. Smith is a Series B investor at Masthead Venture Partners focused on Enterprise Software and Mobile. Stephen K. Smith has more than two decades of experience as a venture capital investor and equity analyst covering technology companies. He has successful investment track records in both public equity and private venture capital sectors. Prior to joining Masthead, Mr. Smith spent sixteen years as a top-ranked Wall Street analyst forPaineWebber, Inc. Mr. Smith was rated as a top analyst of technology stocks, holding a position on the Institutional Investor All Star Research Team for ten years, based on surveys of top technology fund managers. He was twice voted the #1 analyst of computer stocks by the Wall Street Journal. As head of the technology research team at PaineWebber, Mr. Smith was also charged with identifying prospects, conducting due diligence, positioning and marketing institutional private placements, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions.Prior to working at PaineWebber, Mr. Smith spent six years in the computer industry, first as a systems engineer with British computer manufacturer ICL, and then with the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he consulted to the financial services industry on technology-related issues. Mr. Smith holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a First Class Honors Degree in Computer Science from Brighton Polytechnic University in England. He currently serves on the boards Scanbuy and Packet Design, all Masthead portfolio companies. Other boards Mr. Smith has served on for Masthead include Bitpipe (acquired by TechTarget in December 2004), Ecount (acquired by Citigroup in March 2007) and Tizor Systems (acquired by Netezza in February 2009). He was also responsible for Masthead's investments in Sombasa Media (acquired by About.com in March 2000) and Sychip (acquired by Murata Manufacturing in April 2006). He is on the board of the Maine Technology Institute and recently served as Chairman of Maine's Small Enterprise Growth Fund. Mr. Smith is an active member of CommonAngels, a Boston-based group of active angel investors who are mostly founders of successful New England high technology companies. ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Stephen K. Smith: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/stephen-k-smith?utm_source=investor_profile ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Enterprise Software | 2 | 100% | | Mobile | 1 | 50% | | QR Codes | 1 | 50% | | Security | 1 | 50% | | Education | 1 | 50% | 6 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series B | 1 | 50% | | Series C | 1 | 50% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Tizor Systems | Tizor Systems, Inc. provides enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for monitoring and reporting data activity in the data center, databases, file servers, and mainframe applications. It offers Mantra, a network-based data auditing and protection solution that enables compliance assurance, data security, and privacy by providing dataauditing, data discovery, audit reporting, theft detection, real-time alerting, and data protection. The company also offers support, education, and consulting services. Tizor Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Maynard, Massachusetts. | $8.3M | Series C | Feb 12, 2008 | | | Scanbuy | Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.The company’s mobile engagement platform provides tools to track the performance of campaigns with various features, including mobile website builder, surveys, mobile web pages, specialized branding, designerQR codes, and many others. It offers mVision Insights, a tool that provides clients with access to marketing engagement activities; mPromo, a mobile offer service that helps clients bring in new businesses; mTargeting, a solution that organizes customers into neat groups with common interests; mPackaging that allows clients to convert the UPC or EAN barcode on various packages; and software development tools.Scanbuy’s mobile engagement suite empowers brands, retailers, and marketers to create, manage, and deliver personalized tailored experiences directly to consumer smartphones; and platform enables the delivery of coupons, product information, videos, websites, social networking, surveys, e-commerce, and more. It offers its applications for Android and iOS devices.Scanbuy was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom. | | Series B | Dec 12, 2006 | | 2 of 2 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Longworth Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/longworth-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Hudson Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hudson-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Masthead Venture Partners VC Fund · Danvers, United States Masthead Venture Partners invests in early-stage information technology and biotechnology companies. It seeks companies with a disruptive technological advantage, rapid growth potential, and strong management teams. Masthead Venture Partners offers both capital and the active support of Masthead's partners, who have diverse operating,venture capital and Wall Street experience in high technology and healthcare companies. 5 contacts available at Masthead Venture Partners. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Brady Bohrmann | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brady-bohrmann | | Mary Shannon | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mary-m-shannon | | Mary Shannon | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mary-shannon-7a01 | | Stephen K. Smith | General Partner | — | | Braden M. Bohrmann | General Partner | — | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund - [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Stephen K. Smith invest in? Stephen K. Smith invests primarily in Enterprise Software, Mobile and QR Codes startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### How do I contact Stephen K. Smith? Public channels for Stephen K. Smith include LinkedIn and X (Twitter). For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox. ### When did Stephen K. Smith last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Stephen K. Smith closed in Feb 2008. Shizune tracks 2 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? 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