Matthew Bloom
Venture Investor | Entrepreneur | Startup Advisor
New Haven, Connecticut
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director, Investments
2021 - 2022
CI is consistently ranked as one of the top 25 most active seed/early-stage VC firms in the US by Pitchbook & CB Insights. Investments led at CI: 1Touch.io, Acadian Ventures, Continuity (Acquired by Mitratech), Copyleaks, EyeControl, ReRent, SecBI (Acquired by LogPoint), Service Insight, Shelf.io, Shoplandia, Slooh, Synergio and Zorus Tech. Previous successful investments supported: CyVek ( Acquired by Bio-Techne Corp.; NASDAQ: TECH), PCC Technologies (Acquired by Clearview Capital), iDevices (Acquired by Hubbell Inc.; NYSE: HUBB), Tru Optik (Acquired by TransUnion; NYSE: TRU), and Payveris (Acquired by Paymentus; NYSE: PAY).
Director, Investments
2017 - 2021
Senior Investment Associate
2016 - 2017
Investment Associate
2014 - 2016
Board Member
2020 - 2022
Board Member
2017 - 2022
Copyleaks is a cloud platform focused on detection of plagiarism, copyright infringement and content leaks using advance AI technology.
Raised $7,250,000.00 from JAL Ventures.
Board Member
2017 - 2022
Shelf is an answer automation platform helping distributed workers instantly find the answers they need.
Raised $60,700,000.00 from Junction Venture Partners, Base10 Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Insight Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Craig Tooey and Austin McChord.
Board Member
2021 - 2021
Continuity Control provides an on-demand portal for policy and procedure management, and audit programs for banking and finance companies.
Raised $21,492,907.00 from Accel-KKR, Kasasa, RC Capital, Thomas J. Watson and Connecticut Innovations.
Board Member
2016 - 2021
Board Member
2018 - 2020
Network Analytics-Based Personal Data Discovery for Regulation and Network Security.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Ocean Azul Partners, National Grid Partners (NGP) and Neotribe Ventures.
Senior Venture Analyst
2012 - 2014
Excell is a seed VC firm investing in high-tech ventures primarily across the greater Western and Upstate NY regions.
Excell Technology Ventures is an offshoot of Excell Partners.
Co-Founder & Business Development Manager
2009 - 2011
Creative Bioreactor Design Inc. is a start-up biomedical company focused on accelerating the growth of the regenerative medicine industry by developing and delivering innovative equipment and systems for engineered tissues and organs.