Matt Harris

Founder / Exec Coach

2022 - Current

Building products that work to make the founder journey easier at https://www.twentysevennine.co I work as an exec coach for 10+ 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: -80%+ of founders who work with me raise follow on funding. - an average of 7mm per round.

Advisor / Investor

2022

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

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

Founder

2016

Founded Bloom Credit, a company building an API to better access and report consumer credit data with all three credit bureaus. Bloom Credit works with ~70 fintech companies and has raised 20 million dollars and is backed by Resolute Ventures, Slow Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Allegis Capital, Kindred Ventures, C2 Ventures and angels/advisors such as Mark Goines, Sheel Mohnot, Jake Gibson, Eli Broverman, Shivani Siroya, Jeff Cruttenden, 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/ Continue to provide advisory services to the company www.bloomcredit.io

Board Member

2016 - 2023

Chief Executive Officer / Exec Chairman

2016 - 2022

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

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

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

BTV, NFX backed company bringing the mutual model back to small business insurance.

Advisor

2023

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