Matt Harris

Founder / Exec Coach

2022

I've executive coached over 20 VC backed companies. Backed by funds like a16z, Index, First Round, General Catalyst, QED, Flourish, Y Combinator, Bling Capital, Deciens, The Fintech Fund and others. I typically help in a few areas... - OKR setting and management - Fundraising - Helping founders communicate and to set “minimum viable processes” - Helping founders combat burnout Results: - The founders I've worked with have raised over 100mm after working together since I began coaching in 2022 - 75% of founders have raised at least 1 follow on capital round - An average of 7mm per round

Cofounder / Board Member

2022

Co founder and board member of a new company speeding up the time to payout of approved insurance claims Claimsetter is a seed stage company backed by Tenacity VC and MS&AD Ventures

Investor

2021

Arbor Ventures, Nyca Ventures, Homebrew and Felicis Ventures backed company bringing consumer friendly modern technology to debt collection. https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribarzilay/2017/11/14/trueaccord-nabs-22m-series-b-to-bring-machine-learning-to-debt-collections/?sh=3a0824317f09

Investor

2022

Khosla Impact, Susa Ventures and Costanoa backed company reinventing KYC in across Africa using facial biometric and other data sources. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/08/smile-identity-raises-7m-to-build-kyc-and-identity-verification-tools-for-africa/

Investor

2021

Union Square Ventures, GGV and SignalFire backed company providing financial services for the creator economy https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/01/a-bank-for-the-creator-economy-karat-raises-26m-in-series-a-funding/

Investor

2022

Acrew Capital, Commerce Ventures, Slow Ventures backed neobank aiming to develop products and services that reward savers

Advisor

2023

Point72 and Bessemer backed company finding a better way to reach consumers through investing and other financial services.

Advisor

2021

Seed stage company providing credit unions with an experience to retain more customers and issue more loans. Backed by Forum Ventures and Commerce Ventures

Founder

2016 - 2024

Founded Bloom Credit, a company building an API to better access and report consumer credit data with all three credit bureaus. Bloom Credit has raised 20 million dollars and is backed by Resolute Ventures, Slow Ventures, Kindred Ventures, C2 Ventures and angels/advisors such as Sheel Mohnot, Jake Gibson, Eli Broverman, Shivani Siroya, Ron Suber, Matt Burton, Shamir Karkal, Ohad Samet, Maia Bittner, Stuart Sopp, Aaron Frank, Bill Clerico and Jason Gardner among others. https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2020/bloom-credit-closes-13m-series-a-funding-round/ www.bloomcredit.io

Board Member

2016 - 2023

Chief Executive Officer / Exec Chairman

2016 - 2022

Advisor / Investor

2022 - 2024

Work with the team at Commerce Ventures on helping them make fintech investments. Sometimes that's helping with core fund investments. Sometimes I write scout checks Also an LP in the fund Commerce investments include Lithic, Socure, MX, Bill.com, Marqeta, Kin, Moov etc