Matt Brezina founded, scaled & sold two startups: Xobni YC S06 (acq Yahoo), Sincerely (acq Liberty Media). Matt has been angel investing since 2008 and has backed over 80 companies including breakouts: Dropbox, Ring, FunctionOfBeauty, Solugen, Mercury, Snapdocs, Cruise, Rescale, Tonal, Karat. Matt has invested across a diverse range of markets including Marketplaces, HealthTech, B2B SAAS, Fintech, Hardware+service, Climate Tech as well as across the US, Latam, Africa, Middle East & Europe. Matt was one of the earliest scouts, deploying money for CRV & Spark Capital. Matt is hyper-involved in hiring, fundraising, positioning and product from day zero through series A, and then shifts to a founder advisory role. His goal is to be the first person founders call for advice. Matt has helped on over 12 M&A transactions. Matt also started the Penn State Summer Founders Program and is the Founder of KidSafeSF a movement to make streets safe for travel by walking & bicycle.

Matt only invest in founders who he could see spending a whole weekend with kiting, biking, hiking, surfing or sailing. If we can build trust and a relationship outside of business, it will make on the business stronger. As for markets, I'm open to any business with a technological lever. I learn about and jump into new markets by backing the best founders.

Dropbox, FunctionOfBeauty, Karat, Mercury, Rescale, Ring, Snapdocs, Solugen, Tonal

The most important thing I do is reference the founder's ambition & character. Warm intros short-cut this process and make it much easier for me to lean in.

We are going into business together for 10+ years, sometimes talk on the phone multiple times per day and likely to become lifelong friends - I want to work with good humans.