Mason Darabi

Mason is a CPA & an engineer by training, a venture capitalist and a private equity expert, a 2X visionary tech start-up founder and entrepreneur, with an extensive background in Canadian and global capital markets both private and public. In his most recent start-up endeavor, he founded, raised capital ($2.5MM seed) and served as the chief commercialization officer for a Fintech asset-backed financing platform called Ovenue out of Silicon Valley for almost 2.5+ years. Furthermore, Mason has acted as a venture builder with over 10+ years of experience as a CFO of dozens of SaaS/Fintech, Ag-tech, and health-tech start-ups), contributing significantly to their growth financing, development of the go-to-market (GTM) strategy and determining the product-market fit endeavors.

He has also demonstrated a history of serving as a CFO of a few of publicly traded companies in Canada by leading the go-public transaction and executing on M&A roll-up strategy of these companies. Also, in his corporate life, he has worked as a CPA for various public-practice firms and corporations such as MNP LLP, Imperial Oil, RSM LLP and PwC in Canada.