Mash

The internet is broken. Ads don't monetize well and incentivize selling other products and services rather than one’s own content and experiences. Subscriptions and large up-front purchases are a huge commitment barrier and don’t work for most.

Fortunately, things are changing. With Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, we now have sound, scalable, trust-minimized, programmable money that can be sent around the world instantly. With this new technology, we now have the ability to enable new, fun and interactive experiences that reward everyone.

Mash is building these products to enable a new era online – one with an abundance of quality, trusted, accessible and engaging experiences. We're building the monetization & engagements platform to remonetize the internet, enabling publishers, creators and online media to implement completely new monetization models.

Mash has 3+ years of runway, having raised US$6M from top VCs and angels in 2022 and being deliberate with how we’ve grown the team. The round was co-led by Whitecap Venture Partners and Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Maple VC, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Aquanow, Spacecadet Ventures, and angel investors including Amjad Masad, Balaji Srinivasan, Austin Hill, and John Pfeffer.

We’re a dynamic team with experience at start-ups, scale-ups, and big tech including Google, Amazon, Barstool Sports, Anchor, Spotify, and Lazer. We don't use any seniority titles, and plan not to for as long as feasibly possible (learn more why). Mash is a remote-first company with much of the team currently based in the Eastern Time Zone, while accommodating each other to work wherever we are in the world.

Examples of problems we’re tackling

• Building a scalable payments platform for the web with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.
• Enabling diverse monetized experiences across the web for content such as mini-apps, games, tools, articles, video streaming, audio, and more.
• Providing on-site experiences for users to interact with content and each other that works anywhere on the web in a performant way.
• Creating a digital wallet with Bitcoin and Lightning that is persistent and can be embedded across the web – e.g., websites, mobile apps, etc.