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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 238 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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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