Mitch Robinson

Managing Partner, Sampford Advisors - #1 Mid Market Technology M&A advisor in Canada

📍 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2024
Angel investor🌍 Canada
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Independent Board Member
Dec 2024
MASV Inc. specializes in the fast and secure transfer of large files, making it an ideal solution for media workflows. It is capable of accelerating hundreds of gigabytes at once, entirely over the web, without the need for file compression or splitting. This is excellent for media professionals who often work remotely and need to share high-resolution assets and copyrighted content with each other on a deadline. In addition to file transfer, MASV Inc. provides a number of other tools to make workflows more efficient, including file collection portals, cloud storage, automation tools, and integrations with third-party storage providers. MASV Inc. has gained the trust of media enterprises worldwide for its reliable and secure file transfer capabilities. It is specifically designed to handle the unique requirements of media organizations, ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of large files. MASV Inc. holds important certifications and compliance standards that demonstrate its commitment to data security. It is ISO 27001 certified, indicating that it follows internationally recognized information security management practices. Additionally, MASV Inc. is SOC 2 compliant, which means it meets the criteria for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. It is also TPN (Trusted Partner Network) verified, further validating its commitment to the media and entertainment industry. MASV Inc. offers a wide range of features to help media professionals improve their file delivery. It has a single file limit of 15 TB with no limit on how many files or folders can be transferred at a time. Files travel across a private network of AWS servers for better speed and efficiency. All transfers are logged and tracked through a Transfer History tab. Users can create a free MASV Portal to request uploads from external parties, and modify the upload form fields to capture custom information.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Digital Hive is an award-winning analytics catalog that centralizes analytics from multiple vendors, in a single unified platform. We help streamline how users discover and access business intelligence and analytics from multiple vendors by serving it up in a personalized view. Create a no-code unified dashboard to share key insights from different platforms across the business and empower everyone to make data-driven decisions in real-time. To help steer analytics governance, we use metadata, comments, and ratings to provide context, and guide users to the most trusted and certified analytics so decisions can be made with confidence.
Experience · 6 entries
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2025
Managing Director
Mar 2025
We are Canada’s #1 mid-market technology M&A advisory firm - completing more mid-market tech M&A deals in 2017-24 YTD than anyone else. Our core technology focus stems from our team’s 50+ years of technology investment banking experience in financial hubs like New York, Hong Kong, Toronto, London, and Singapore. Since starting Sampford, we have worked on numerous deals in highly specialized verticals such as Software / SaaS, Industrial IoT, Intellectual Property, Unified Communications, Digital Media and Content Publishing, Hardware, and other niche verticals that fall under the technology umbrella. In any case, we’re here to listen, help, and advise – that’s why mid-market technology companies choose Sampford as their trusted advisor to make sure they sell at the right time, at the best possible price and to the right buyer.
2024
Independent Board Member
Dec 2024
MASV Inc. specializes in the fast and secure transfer of large files, making it an ideal solution for media workflows. It is capable of accelerating hundreds of gigabytes at once, entirely over the web, without the need for file compression or splitting. This is excellent for media professionals who often work remotely and need to share high-resolution assets and copyrighted content with each other on a deadline. In addition to file transfer, MASV Inc. provides a number of other tools to make workflows more efficient, including file collection portals, cloud storage, automation tools, and integrations with third-party storage providers. MASV Inc. has gained the trust of media enterprises worldwide for its reliable and secure file transfer capabilities. It is specifically designed to handle the unique requirements of media organizations, ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of large files. MASV Inc. holds important certifications and compliance standards that demonstrate its commitment to data security. It is ISO 27001 certified, indicating that it follows internationally recognized information security management practices. Additionally, MASV Inc. is SOC 2 compliant, which means it meets the criteria for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. It is also TPN (Trusted Partner Network) verified, further validating its commitment to the media and entertainment industry. MASV Inc. offers a wide range of features to help media professionals improve their file delivery. It has a single file limit of 15 TB with no limit on how many files or folders can be transferred at a time. Files travel across a private network of AWS servers for better speed and efficiency. All transfers are logged and tracked through a Transfer History tab. Users can create a free MASV Portal to request uploads from external parties, and modify the upload form fields to capture custom information.
2020
Chief Executive Officer / Board Member
Jul 2020
Hearing Testing. Evolved. Think Outside of the Booth
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
Digital Hive is an award-winning analytics catalog that centralizes analytics from multiple vendors, in a single unified platform. We help streamline how users discover and access business intelligence and analytics from multiple vendors by serving it up in a personalized view. Create a no-code unified dashboard to share key insights from different platforms across the business and empower everyone to make data-driven decisions in real-time. To help steer analytics governance, we use metadata, comments, and ratings to provide context, and guide users to the most trusted and certified analytics so decisions can be made with confidence.
2000
Cognos Inc.
Vice President, Strategic Investment
Sep 2000
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