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Matt Maurer

Partner at WVV Capital

San Diego, California

Overview 

Matt Maurer is a current VC and Kauffman Fellow with a background as a former Fortune 15 executive. He has notable experience in healthcare information technology and has held leadership roles in companies such as Cigna and Express Scripts. Maurer's career highlights include his role as a Partner at WVV Capital and serving as a Board Director for companies like TabbyML and Bend Health.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2020 - Current

    Investor backing the next wave of iconic companies best positioned to drive the cataclysmic change brought about by new technologies (generative AI, ML, NLP), massive data advantages, and agile corporate partnership models. WVV is a new class of venture capital fund formed by four active corporate partners: Advocate Aurora Health, Northwestern Mutual, Foxconn, and Johnson Controls International. We blend the best of a traditional venture investment fund with novel corporate relationships, helping founders short-cut the traditional growth path.

WVV Capital is a venture capital firm investing on AI.

  • Board Director

    2024

    The top GenAI coding copilot employing an open-source model. Allows users to choose from and deploy several coding language models *fully on-premises* along with a suite of complimentary dev tools.

open source AI coding assistant

Raised $3,200,000.00 from Zoo Capital and Yunqi Partners.

  • Board Director

    2021

Family Healthcare Provider

Raised $32,000,000.00 from WVV Capital and Maveron.

  • Board Director

    2022

Blueberry Pediatrics provides parents with live access to top pediatricians for a flat monthly rate.

Raised $7,650,000.00 from Duro Ventures, WVV Capital and Streamlined Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2022

Posterity Health educates, engaged, and encourages couples to approach the conception process together as an integrated unit.

Raised $23,180,589.00 from WVV Capital, Distributed Ventures, FCA Venture Partners, Donald A. Holzworth, FCA Venture Partners, Laurie McGraw, Gerry McCarthy, Distributed Ventures, WVV Capital and Gerry McCarthy.

  • Investor

    2022

    A true N-of-one startup, launching a new category of insurance in America (which only happens every few decades) to support families with children diagnosed with rare diseases.

Juno is an insurance company that provides child insurance solutions and services for parents from expecting to empty nesting.

Raised $8,500,000.00 from Spero Ventures, Floating Point, WVV Capital and nvp capital.

  • Board of Trustees

    2007

    Helped envision and scale the first ever student-run venture capital fund on the planet. Served as President & Managing Director / Investor. 16 years later, venture fund is thriving with 10x AUM.

Dakota Venture Group is a University of North Dakota student run venture capital investment fund.

  • VP Payer Product & Partnership

    2019 - 2021

    Robin uses GenAI / ML / NLP / Computer Vision to magically convert audio and video from doctors' offices into clinical notes, billable codes, and supporting documentation needed to satisfy the assembly line of healthcare administration. Architected the 50M Series B fundraise led by Khosla, Scale, and Norwest. I also led a team of engineers who built integrations with national payers and healthcare institutions; and was an advisor since the company existed on a napkin.

Robin Healthcare is a developer of an electronic medical recording device.

Raised $71,860,000.00 from Horizon Technology Finance.

  • Senior Director - BD & Partnerships, Prior Auth, UM, Interoperability

    2018 - 2019

    Founded a digital health startup that was ultimately acquired by Cigna. Tapped to drive a cross-enterprise integration and technology modernization effort, focused on both external connectivity and BD, and internal data-exchange architecture. Great deal of focus on reviewing UM Utilization Management programs and alleviating the prior authorization burden for providers, solving for industry-wide scale.

  • eviCore Senior Director (exited to Cigna 2019)

    2017 - 2018

    Alongside primary role, joined 2 key leadership teams that span both organizations -- surrounding industry connectivity and interoperability, and serving as liaison to major government and industry associations/standards bodies.

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