Matthew Hooper

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.

Entrepreneur In Residence

2021

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VP- Open Innovation

2015 - 2017

Managing Director, Startup NEXT NYC

2015 - 2016

Entrepreneur in Residence

2012 - 2013