HighByte
Ben is Managing Director at Standard Investments where he leads Standard’s Venture Capital investment platform. He has over a decade of venture investing experience and is passionate about the opportunity to transform critical industrial sectors while improving productivity, resiliency, and sustainability. Ben’s mechanical engineering background attracts him to complex problems that often require the combination of technology and business model innovation to create meaningful and lasting impact.
Prior to Standard Investments, Ben was at GE Ventures, where he led investments in early-stage companies across energy, transportation, manufacturing, and the built environment. Ben has also held engineering and business development roles at an early-stage technology company.
Ben holds a Master’s of Engineering Management as well as a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Dartmouth College. He is based on the east coast with his wife and two children where they are often on a mountain, on the water, or in the woods.
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HighByte
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HighByte is an industrial software company in Portland, Maine building solutions that address the data architecture and integration challenges created by Industry 4.0. At a global level, we are working to improve the efficiency, productivity, and security of industrial companies. At a local level, we are creating a great place to work that attracts top talent and creates new jobs while generating a meaningful return for our investors. HighByte is defining Industrial DataOps as a new software category and evangelizing its necessity as a building block of Industry 4.0. We are on a mission to become the market leader in this emerging category with a vision of serving thousands of global customers from our headquarters in Portland, Maine. The three-person founding team has more than fifty years of experience in the industrial automation market and previously worked together for six years building a successful software company that was one of the largest exits by acquisition in Maine's history. We are vigilant about our core values of commitment, collaboration, honestly, and curiosity--fostering these values in our employees, key accounts, industry partners, and investor partners. If you share these values and want to play a meaningful role in a fast-paced startup contributing to the global manufacturing market, come join us.