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Matthew Hooper

Managing Partner at Kaplak Ventures

United States

Overview 

Matthew Hooper is an experienced professional in climate innovation, investment, and advisory, with a background in entrepreneurship and software engineering. He has held significant roles such as Managing Partner at Kaplak Ventures and Entrepreneur In Residence at WEVE Acceleration, showcasing a strong track record in early-stage startups and venture capital. Hooper's career highlights include managing director positions at IDONEA and Forum Ventures, as well as serving as a Venture Partner at LFT Media, demonstrating his expertise in business strategy, management, and angel investing.

Work Experience 

KV

Kaplak Ventures

  • Managing Partner

    2023 - Current

    At Kaplak Ventures, we provide founders with strategic advice, leadership expertise, and a global network needed to grow at far greater speed and scale. I also manage our ReGen Accelerator and Climate Tech Catalyzer programs.

WA

WEVE Acceleration (formerly NUMA New York)

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2021

    I support a diverse portfolio of businesses as they expand to the U.S.

TC

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)

  • Specialist

    2020

    I lead the 'Innovation From The Inside' intensive, which introduces students from Yale and selected international academic institutions to the mindsets and frameworks used by innovative thinkers and practitioners who reinvent organizations through intrapreneurship.

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale is to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

city.yale.edu
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IDONEA

  • Managing Director

    2022 - 2022

    Leading the U.S. arm of the Danish management consultancy. We focus on corporate leadership and institutional reinvention. Helped to spin out Kaplak Ventures.

FV

Forum Ventures

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2022

    I was a part of the Venture Partner program at Forum Ventures, the leading early-stage fund, program, and community for B2B SaaS startups.

Forum Ventures is a fund, program, platform, and community for B2B SaaS startups.

forumvc.com
LM

LFT Media

  • Co-founder

    2017 - 2022

    LFT Media produced podcasts, video series and live events about the innovation economy. Projects included "Forwards and Backwards: An Oral History of Quantum Computing", co-produced with IBM Quantum. Past projects include "Live! From Tomorrow", a podcast that weaves together guest interviews with comedic segments to bring ‘Tomorrow’ vividly to life, and the "IBM Blockchain Pulse Podcast", a bi-weekly series that chronicles how blockchain is leaping from theory to reality.

Live! From Tomorrow is a live tech-centered variety show featuring skits, interviews, and startup demos.

livefromtomorrow.tv
W

WeWork

  • Entrepreneur-in-Residence, WeWork Labs

    2018 - 2019

    I advised an array of startup companies in the WeWork community, working with them to acquire their first customers, hone their pitches and, where appropriate, raise venture capital.

A WeWork-backed fund investing in the future of work.

B

Barclays

  • VP- Open Innovation

    2015 - 2017

UP Global

  • Managing Director, Startup NEXT NYC

    2015 - 2016

CC

Casual Corp

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2012 - 2013

Casual Corp is a venture studio in NYC.

strata.cc

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