Nate Matherson

Co-founder & CEO

2023 - Current

At Positional, we are building a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search. Positional is backed by a leading group of investors including Y Combinator, Lachy Groom Fund, Pioneer Fund, Lorimer Ventures, and an incredible group of angel investors. We pivoted to Positional out of ContainIQ.

Investor in Early Stage Technology Companies

2020

I typically invest at the seed and sometimes at the Series A. I've invested in ~85 startups, largely YC-backed companies.

Co-founder & CEO

2021 - 2023

ContainIQ delivers a powerful toolset for companies running workloads on K8s. Access metrics, logs, traces, and profiling instantly and with little overhead. With eBPF, our agent-less approach is designed to scale quickly and with meaningful performance benefits. We did a hard pivot to Positional^^

Co-Founder and CEO

2014 - 2020

LendEDU was Co-Founded by Nate Matherson and Matt Lenhard in 2014. LendEDU is a personal finance comparison website. LendEDU participated in Y Combinator's W16 program in Mountain View California. Exited January 2020.

Financial Control Summer Analyst

2014 - 2014

Worked as a CIB Financial Control Summer Analyst on the EMEA Exotics team. Daily responsibilities included account reconciliation and substantiation.

Corporate & Investment Bank Option Clearance Intern

2014 - 2014

Worked within the Corporate & Investment Bank of J.P. Morgan as an Options Clearance intern. Daily functions include trade reconciliation, correction, and the processing of client exercises. Helped to support the operations behind all U.S. Option Clearing for J.P. Morgan's Investment Bank, Private Bank, and Retail Desk. Worked closely with the Middle Office to ensure all corrections and discrepancies were settled in a timely matter for clients. This was an academic internship during the Spring 2014 semester. I worked part-time while taking a full credit load at the University of Delaware.

Analyst & Assistant

2013 - 2014

Analyst & Assistant in the Exelon Trading Center where I am responsible for assisting undergraduate students with professional asset management software packages including Bloomberg and FactSet. Certified in Bloomberg and FactSet financial modeling (DealMaven).

Vice President

2012 - 2014

Recently elected Vice President of the Blue Hen Investment Club, the University of Delaware's $1.5 million large-cap equity fund. As a member of the five member executive board I work to manage all activities of the fund with an individual focus analyst education and training. Prior to my role as Vice President, I was elected to the position of Sector Head within the Health Care sector, managing roughly $225,000. Alongside seven analysts, I focused our sector on biotechnology and medical devices. In the 12 months that I managed the sector I generated 375 basis points in alpha over the S&P Health Care benchmark. We utilize numerous tools including discounted cash flow, regression, and qualitative analysis to build investing themes and pitches. If you would like to discuss our current holdings and long term strategy within the sector, please reach out to me. We are always looking for guest speakers to share their insight on investing, strategy, and the markets.

Sales Associate

2012 - 2012

Sales Associate

2011 - 2011