Matt Schaar

VP and Partner at Accion Venture Lab

Matthew Schaar is a fintech founder and venture partner with a background in product marketing, customer success, and management consulting. He holds a B.S. and two Master's degrees from the University of Michigan, as well as a Certificate in Digital Money from the Digital Frontiers Institute and additional education from Harvard Business School Executive Education. Schaar is currently a partner at Accion Venture Lab and a former venture partner at Republic. He has also held positions at Civis Analytics, Salesforce, GitHub, and more. Schaar is interested in investing and supporting technology startups.

Highlights

Aug 29 · twitter

I haven’t heard an update from nearly all of my angel investments in five months.

Unrelated, I’ve marked down most of my angel portfolio to zero.

Aug 29 · twitter

When you look at the Twitter accounts of a few prominent VCs, instead of ongoing discussion around the industry, their replies are just loaded with alt-right misogyny.

Our industry's brain trust is a sinking ship anchored to the brain worms MAGA created.

Sep 4 · The Information

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Experience

Vice President and Partner at Accion Venture Lab

Senior Director at Accion Venture Lab, Investor at Merit, StackShare, Bloom Money, Abbot, Destacame board member, Venture Partner at Republic, Founder of Brush Labs, Director of Product Marketing at Civis Analytics, Director at Salesforce, Product/Developer Marketing at GitHub

Education

B.S., Master's Degree, and M.B.A. from University of Michigan; Certificate in Digital Money from Digital Frontiers Institute; Executive Education from Harvard Business School