Matt Kozlov
Managing Director at Techstars
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2015 - Current
MD, Techstars Los Angeles/Healthcare/Space. Class of 2022 (Fall): Additive Space, Canopy Aerospace, Charter Space, Fenix Space, In-Orbit Aerospace, Infiltron, WingXpand, Bevz, Dopl Technologies, Liberate Studio, Relish Life, Rotender Class of 2022 (Spring): Aware Health, Beans, Equatorial Space, GoFlyy, Hormona, MaxRetail, Mind-Easy, Modal Living, Next Gen Quantum, Pear Suite, Rwazi, Squid IQ Class of 2021: Alva Health, Butterfly Labs, Ground, Potion, Erdos Ventures, Eunimart, Lightbox, People Clerk, ViralMoment Class of 2020 includes: Bifrost AI, Holos Inc, Infinite Composites Technologies, Lux Semiconductors, Natural Intelligence Systems, Prewitt Ridge, SATIM Inc., Urban Sky, vRotors, and WeavAir Class of 2019 includes: Hydrosat, HyBird, Morpheus Space, Novo Space, OrbitFab, Pixxel, Solestial, and Zeno Power Systems More info: https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/space Previously, founding MD of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Powered by Techstars Graduates include: AppliedVR, Deep6 AI, Silversheet (acquired by AMN Healthcare), Stasis, WELL Health, Enso (acquired by Hinge Health), HealthTensor, Noteworth, Referral MD, Aiva, CancerAid, Gyant, Lumeon, NarrativeDX (acquired by Press Ganey), and Tasso.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Advisor
2014 - 2020
Advisor
2011 - 2016
Chromatik builds products for musicians to learn, play, and share the music they love.
Raised $7,700,000.00 from Baroda Ventures, Will Smith, Promus Ventures, 500 Global, Plus Capital and Rustic Canyon Partners.
Head of Corporate Development
2015 - 2015
Head of Product Management
2014 - 2015
Telesign connects, protects, and defends companies, customers, and the digital interactions between them.
Raised $78,000,000.00 from Titanium Ventures, March Capital, Adams Street Partners and Summit Partners.
Advisor
2012 - 2015
Advisor
2013 - 2014
CEO
2011 - 2013
Moonshark (previously known as Creative Mobile Labs) is a startup backed by CAA and Qualcomm bringing to market stunningly original mobile entertainment properties by pairing the most creative minds in Hollywood with the world’s best mobile developers. Moonshark funds, produces, markets and publishes app concepts developed in partnership with CAA talent, finding the best developers to bring these apps to life.
VP, New Products and Services
2010 - 2011
VP, Web Products, Global Digital Business
2008 - 2010
Sony Music is a music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate.
App Studio / App Platform (YOS)
2007 - 2008
Media/Entertainment Strategy
2006 - 2007
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Associate Consultant
2004 - 2006
Education
BA
2000 - 2004