Matt is the Managing Director of three of the top venture accelerators in the country: Techstars LA (in partnership with JPMorgan), Techstars Healthcare (in partnership with Cedars-Sinai, UnitedHealthcare, UCIrvine Health, and Point32Health), and Techstars Space (in partnership with the United States Space Force and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

His companies have raised over $800M and have a market cap of over $3B. Examples include: OrbitFab, Pixxel, Zeno Power Systems, Hydrosat, Lux Semiconductors, Urban Sky, Morpheus Space, Prewitt Ridge, MaxRetail, Rwazi, Tasso Inc., Artera, Regard Health, Deep6AI, AppliedVR, NarrativeDX (acquired by Press Ganey), Silversheet (acquired by AMN Healthcare), and Enso (acquired by Hinge). As an angel investor, he has also backed several prominent companies at their earliest stage including Colossal, Rula (fka Path CCM), and Form Bio.

Prior to joining Techstars Matt was the Head of Corporate Development at Telesign, a leading anti-fraud firm and one of LA’s fastest growing technology companies (acquired by BICS). Previously he was CEO of Moonshark, a venture backed by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and Qualcomm bringing to market original mobile entertainment. He has also worked at Sony Music Entertainment (VP, Web & Mobile Products), Yahoo! (corporate strategy, product development) and Bain and Company (management consulting). He graduated from Harvard, where he studied economics.