Matchstick Ventures
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Matchstick Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed-stage technology startups, primarily in the 'between the coasts' regions of the US, including Colorado and Minnesota. They focus on founder-first relationships and have invested in over 100 companies since 2015.
Matchstick Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in technology and startups. Its stated cheque size is $500k - $1.5M. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest capital, time and resources in the most ambitious entrepreneurs "between the coasts" - teaming up at the pre-seed and seed stage to help make their dreams a reality”
— Matchstick Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- United States
- Invests in
- between the coasts, Colorado, Minnesota, North and Rockies
- Sectors
- technology, startups
- Cheque size
- $500k - $1.5M
- Founded
- 2015
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Matchstick Ventures publishes it
- Ryan Broshar General Partner
- Natty Zola General Partner
- Nicole Glaros General Partner
- Shannon Shroyer Head of Network and Operations
Names and roles exactly as listed on matchstick.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 238 co-investors found.
- Range Ventures 10 shared companies: cometchat.com, greatsky.ai, launchbay.com, jawa.gg…
- Bread And Butter Ventures, LLC 9 shared companies: bybe.com, structural.com, upsie.com, delfina.com…
- Drive Capital 5 shared companies: youtu.be, venturebeat.com, branchapp.com, stateless.net…
- Firstmile Ventures, LLC 5 shared companies: hobbydb.com, ironcorelabs.com, section.io, stateless.net…
- Northzone 3 shared companies: getro.com, venturebeat.com, yahoo.com
- Valo Ventures 3 shared companies: getro.com, youtu.be, opteraclimate.com
- At One Ventures 3 shared companies: youtu.be, venturebeat.com, yahoo.com
- Bonfire Ventures 3 shared companies: venturebeat.com, branchapp.com, abodehr.com
- Rally Ventures Management, LLC 3 shared companies: venturebeat.com, kapta.com, getparallax.com
- Riverwood Capital 3 shared companies: venturebeat.com, yahoo.com, pehub.com
and 228 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Matchstick Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.matchstick.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.matchstick.vc/aboutcheque_size
- https://www.matchstick.vc/teampeople
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