Ford Street Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on pre-seed and seed investments.
I’ve been on the venture-backed startup roller coaster, having built and sold two companies. I bring those experiences, plus experience investing in over 130 companies to find the best founders and help them at critical moments in their journey.
I invest in high-character, ambitious and technical founders with whom I hope to build a 20-year relationship. I’ve seen what great founders look like and how they operate. I look to these technology-surfers for where the next wave is forming. A few waves I’m particularly interested in are machine learning applied to imaging in healthcare, manufacturing, and mobility, AI-enabled vertical SAAS, software for creators and business owners, and Hardware-advantaged software platforms.
Bicycles (of all types) are my main mode of transportation. I also started a street safety non-profit in San Francisco where my wife and I are raising two children.
Select Ford Street portfolio companies
Freshpaint is a data privacy platform for the Healthcare Industry
Moichor applies computer vision and machine learning to blood testing to provide the fastest and most accurate analysis for Veterinary practices
Coco’s sidewalk delivery robots provide delivery services for some of the largest brands in the world including Doordash, CloudKitchens and more
Vitable provides simple and affordable health benefits designed to reduce an employer’s healthcare spend while providing delightful care employees will actually use.
Gisual ingests public and private power and network outage data and applies AI to predict outage scale, location and duration for customers in telecom, banking and other mission critical industries.
Portrait provides the software and supply chain to help aesthetics and wellness entrepreneurs win.
Tristar optimizes factories with AI computer vision technology
Aerodome provides drone-based air support for police departments and first responders.
Carry helps entrepreneurs and HNW individuals grow their net worth with smart tax optimization
Selection of Matt’s Previous Seed Investments
Mercury is the leading banking technology provider for startups
Dropbox is the leading file sharing and storage company
Market-leading video doorbell and home security company acquired by Amazon
Autonomous car technology company acquired by General Motors
Solugen is decarbonizing the chemicals industry by using bio feedstock and proprietary enzymes to create industrial chemicals.
Teachable lets anyone create and launch an online course and was acquired by HotMart in 2020
Leading mobile sports and live events ticketing marketplace
Cloud platform for computation engineering and R&D