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Matt Rogers

Founder of Mill

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Matt Rogers is the Founder & CEO of Mill, Founder of Incite.org, and Founder of Nest. He has a strong background in software engineering and consumer electronics, having held key roles at Nest Labs and Apple Inc. Rogers has successfully founded multiple companies and has a track record of investing in early-stage startups in sectors like Social Networks and ClimateTech/CleanTech, showcasing his entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to supporting innovative ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & CEO

    2020 - Current

    Trash stinks. Together, we can do better. Mill makes it easy to prevent food waste at home with an innovative new kitchen experience and pathways that keep food out of landfills.

Mill offers a kitchen bin that dries, shrinks, and de-stinks leftover food, eliminating food waste.

Raised $70,378,750.00 from Gigascale Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Springdale Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Energy Impact Partners, Prelude Ventures, MarketX Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Buckhill Capital LP and Google Ventures.

  • Founder

    2017

    We invest in early stage companies (pre seed, seed, and series A) that are solving hard, important problems in the world. We work with our portfolio CEOs to build successful businesses that stay true to their (and our) values. Incite also supports new non-profits that are starting movements for positive social and environmental change. We work with these social entrepreneurs to build movements for lasting change and impact. And we back early stage civic and political movements to build a better, more inclusive politics and civil society in America. Chairman of Advanced Energy Economy; Chairman of Carbon180; Board member of Activate, Syng, American Jobs Project. Advisor at Google.

  • Founder, Chief Product Officer, VP of Engineering

    2010 - 2018

Nest Labs is a home automation company manufacturing sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning thermostats and smoke detectors.

Raised $230,000,000.00 from DST Global.

  • Senior Manager, iPod and iPhone Software

    2007 - 2010

  • Firmware Engineer

    2005 - 2007

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.

Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.

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