Matt Venables, Angel Investor

I am a product-focused engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor with a successful history of building groundbreaking experiences in Web3 and AI. I’ve spent my career building companies from the earliest stages, working up and down the tech stack, from writing cryptographic algorithms for IBM Mainframes powering big banks, to running Product/Engineering at a high-growth IPO-bound consumer product companies, to successfully fundraising for several of my own startups, investing in many more, and everything in between. My decade-long immersion in the fintech world has allowed me to contribute substantially to influential crypto products, such as the USDC stablecoin and Verite, a decentralized identity protocol. These projects have grown to be some of the most important cornerstones of the global Web3 ecosystem.