91ÑÇÉ«

Founder & Managing Partner, Golden Ventures
Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1992

An experienced entrepreneur and venture capitalist,ÌýMattÌýhas focused on startups his entire career. He has been engaged in all aspects of building and guiding disruptive companies from their very early stages.Ìý
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In 2011ÌýMattÌýstarted Golden Ventures, one of the earliest micro venture capital funds, with the goal of supportingÌýearly-stageÌýfounders in their journey of realizing their vision and potential. Many funds later,ÌýMattÌýbrings the same excitement when meeting founders building transformative technology companies.ÌýMattÌýpreviously led deals at BlackBerry Partners Fund andÌýBrightsparkÌýVentures.ÌýMattÌýcut his entrepreneurial teeth as a co-founder of Tira Wireless, a mobile games publisher and content deployment technology and services provider. Tira became a recognized industry leader in both mobile games publishing and content deployment.Ìý
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MattÌýis trained as a lawyer, specializing in business technology, financialÌýservices,Ìýand M&A at Osler, one of Canada’s premier law firms. He has an LLB / MBA from the University of Ottawa, and a BA in Economics from 91ÑÇÉ«.Ìý