MST Webinar Recording and Investment Link

Red Bear Ventures Community:

Thanks to those of you who joined the Mason Street Training (MST) webinar yesterday.  It was a lively discussion with strong questions from the group, several of whom brought industry expertise to the conversation. Great to see!

The webinar recording is here (Passcode: RBV2026!) and the investment link is:

https://portal.angellist.com/l/dr/621177d1

This link will take you to MST's data room on AngelList, which contains more details on the company. If you don't have an AngelList account, you'll need to create one (<1 min).

As noted in the more detailed email below, the minimum investment is $1,000 and the max is $200,000. Closing is at 5pm ET on Wednesday, May 6th. 

If you have any questions about the company, please reach out to us directly.

Thanks - enjoy the weekend!

Dan and Gus

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[Sent Friday April 17th]

Red Bear Ventures Community:

We are reaching out with an equity investment opportunity in Mason Street Training (MST), a workforce development platform targeting the skilled trades labor shortage in the United States. Skilled trades - the licensed, hands-on vocations that build, install, and maintain physical infrastructure - face an annual workforce gap of 500,000+ workers, driven by an aging labor force and decades of underinvestment in vocational training.

MST's solution is an 8-week, $8,000 bootcamp delivering job-ready, pre-apprentice technicians at one-third the cost and one-sixth the time of traditional vocational training, through both a B2C licensed school and a B2B "Talent-as-a-Service" enterprise model.

This is a $4M financing at a $20M post-money valuation. RBV has been given a $400K allocation. Several prominent family offices and individuals are also investing, including former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Inherent Foundation, and Danny Stein (Cornell ‘92). The round closes Wednesday 05/06 at 5pm ET.  

Additional details are in the company's deck, which is here.

We are excited about MST for several reasons:

• CEO Jeremy Snepar (Cornell '01) previously founded New York Code and Design Academy (NYCDA), a similar concept he successfully sold to Strayer in 2016.

• The US trade labor shortage is well-documented, worsening, and attracting the attention of some of the country’s largest financial institutions.

• A jump on the competition: while others will almost certainly enter this space, we believe in Snepar’s ability to outmaneuver competitors, as he did with NYCDA.

• A scalable, venture-backable idea: Snepar has been very thoughtful about how to prove the business model quickly and then rapidly scale the company.

Founded by Snepar and 67 Capital (where Snepar is an EIR), the company is raising this financing to hire its core team, open a first location in Stamford, CT, launch 2–3 enterprise pilots, and build an AI-powered recruitment and assessment platform — with revenue targeted for Q4 2026 and runway into 2028.

The minimum investment is $1,000 and the maximum is $200,000.

We will be hosting a Zoom webinar with Snepar next Friday 04/24 at 12pm ET and will circulate the investment link afterward. To join the Zoom, simply reply to this email.

Thanks!

Dan and Gus

Red Bear Ventures (RBV) is a community-first investment platform which invests exclusively in companies founded by, or managed by, the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Cornell University, one of the world’s most innovative and entrepreneurial universities. RBV invests across stages and verticals and syndicates investment opportunities to the RBV community via special purpose vehicles (SPVs). RBV is an independent platform wholly managed by its Managing Partners - it is neither affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Cornell University.

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