Matthew Burnham

Managing Partner at Dragonfly Group LLC

📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Oct 2024
Bringing Games—and People—Together We believe arcade games are more than entertainment—they’re shared moments, memories, and connections. Our mission is to create a community that makes every play count, for players and operators alike. Scorbit bridges the gap between classic arcade machines and the connected world, turning each game into a chance to compete, engage, and come back for more. By empowering venues with smart tools and giving players new ways to interact, we’re building a platform where everyone wins—on and off the game floor.
Investor
Jan 2024
Pro League Network (PLN) dominates the made-for-wagering sports entertainment scene, leveraging a diverse brand portfolio to deliver thrilling live sports content optimized for betting. As industry pioneers, we craft short-form, wagering-ready experiences across our viral brands, including CarJitsu, SlapFIGHT Championship, World Putting League, Str33t, Pro Carrom Tour, and more. PLNs audience is highly concentrated in the 18-34 demographic, primarily male, boasting over 800K subscribers and followers, and generating 10 million weekly impressions. Our extensive global reach covers more than 100 countries and a portfolio of 14 owned and operated sports properties. Pro League Network thrives at the nexus of sports, media, and wagering, providing immense value to our athletes, brand partners, sportsbook partners, and audiences worldwide, and was recently shortlisted for both Media Company of the Year and US Rising Star awards for 2024.
Investor
Sep 2023
Aurra Studios is an independent studio and podcast network, founded in 2019. We develop world-class original and acquired scripted and unscripted audio content, including cross-platform, branded, commissioned and companion series tied to existing IP for audiences around the world. Podcasting is taking the world by storm, with awareness and listenership reaching all-time highs as the US audience alone breached 100m monthly active users and predicted to reach over 160m by 2023. As is commonplace with digital entertainment this wave, started in the US, is now traversing the planet and already approaching the billion-dollar industry milestone. Un-surprisingly, the force behind this wave is content, with 2020 marking the year when non-English language programming exceeded English. The demand-side world of brands and agencies have clocked this phenomenal growth in listenership and major developments in analytical tools by Nielsen et al, therefore releasing mainstream digital ad spend, and buying into Podcast audiences. And it’s working. Podcast advertising enhances all the brand attribute metrics and out-performs many other media types in-part due to the intimacy of the listening experience.
mid stageEntertainment
Investor
Mar 2021
StatMuse is the leader in conversational artificial intelligence for sports information and storytelling. Featuring the authentic voices of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Jerry Rice, Todd Gurley and Scott Van Pelt, the proprietary StatMuse knowledge engine provides instant answers to trillions of sports questions. `Ask StatMuse`​ for stats, scores, schedules, standings, bios, recaps and more -- from live games all the way back to the inaugural seasons -- for the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL. Available on your favorite voice assistant and messaging bot platform. "Alexa, talk with StatMuse"​ "Hey Google, talk with StatMuse"​
Investor
Aug 2020
Amount was acquired by FIS in August 2025. Amount transforms banking by providing financial institutions with a modern, seamless digital experience for both customers and employees—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening, and integrating AI tools, security, and compliance into a single, powerful platform.
Investor
Dec 2019
HotMic helps companies dramatically increase video inventory with a white label creator live streaming solution. Our customers are looking to 10-50x video on their properties and convert social followers into real users in their apps. HotMic provides a complete solution to onboard and manage creators to produce awesome content and engage users in your apps.
Investor
Dec 2019
HotMic helps companies dramatically increase video inventory with a white label creator live streaming solution. Our customers are looking to 10-50x video on their properties and convert social followers into real users in their apps. HotMic provides a complete solution to onboard and manage creators to produce awesome content and engage users in your apps.
Investor
Sep 2019
ACE Universe (www.aceuniverse.com) is a New York-based media and experiential events company founded by Gareb and Stephen Shamus, who are the world's most experienced producers of Comic Con conventions. Stephen has personally produced over 175 Comic Con events, booked thousands of celebrity guests, and played host to millions of happy fans. Gareb is a leading pop-culture expert, founder of the largest Comic Con tour in the world, an original producer of national Comic Cons, and publisher of multiple award-winning magazines published in 75 countries worldwide. ACE Universe produces premium events in world-class venues that feature the best of Film, TV, Gaming, Virtual Reality, Collectibles, Comics, Original Art, Toys, Action Figures, Graphic Novels, Illustrators, Writers, Creators, and Entertainment Programming. Fans can live stream all ACE Universe events at www.aceuniverse.com and engage with us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
early stageEntertainment
Seed Investor
Nov 2018
Leap is building the worlds largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and scale. The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk. Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations. At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country. Were one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch weve powered stores for +100 brands, and were adding more brands and stores each month. Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product. Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams. With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, were a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed.
early stageRetail
Investor
May 2017
Pre® means taking beef back to a simpler time...Before factory scale ranches and feedlots, added hormones, antibiotics and genetically modified feed became commonplace in raising cattle. At Pre Brands, we believe that trusting in the goodness nature brings to the table is anything but old fashioned. Juicy, tender, flavorful beef that’s lean, thoughtfully packaged, and raised as nature intended. Our Mission To nourish and inspire trust by delivering healthy, protein-packed products that are delicious and sourced from farms where animals are raised as nature intended. Brand Promise We’re different. And proud of it. We’re a meat brand built around a shared commitment and passion for doing things the way nature intended, delivering healthy and sustainable food that tastes delicious, every time.
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Feb 2016
Impact Engine is an institutional investor managing venture capital and private equity strategies that drive positive impact in the areas of economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health equity. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest updates from Impact Engine: theimpactengine.com/signup Disclosures: theimpactengine.com/terms-of-use
Investor and Advisory Board
Apr 2014
Because the smallest organizations have the biggest needs, we don’t believe it’s right to profit from fundraising pain. Instead, we created new model to just cover our costs to fulfill our mission as a nonprofit — just like you. All of our services are no-cost, low-cost, or budget neutral. We work alongside you, as an extension of your team, to get results – and sustain them. We are not like the other consultants, “the prophets,” the well-meaning who see a future of billable hours for the same ideas, boiler-plate reports and templates , and presentations that celebrate a distinguished professional past. Instead, we leverage experience, your data, and stage-appropriate fundraising activities required to fuel your mission.
early stageFundraising
Investor
Mar 2013
A good wine becomes better the more you know about it. The purpose of the Grape Collective is to allow great writers to tell stories about wines they enjoy and the people who make them, to share those stories with a diverse audience comprised of casual wine drinkers, wine novices intimidated by traditional media and even wine connoisseurs, seeking a fresh perspective - and then to facilitate the purchase of these wines for readers. Yes, this will be a for profit undertaking -- mixing journalism with commerce. Writers who are given the latitude to write about the wines they enjoy, subject only to the following restriction, the wines covered need to be available for purchase by Grape Collective from a whole seller.
Investor
Dec 2012
Variance Development Partners is a Variance Development Partners (VDP) is a private, high growth potential investment group which makes extended-term capital investments in established small and mid-sized firms that provide scientific consulting services to biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Investor and Advisory Board
Jun 2011
4C is now a part of Mediaocean! For further updates on Scope, the leading Closed Ecosystems Platform, or to send us a message, please follow Mediaocean. No further updates will be made to this profile. Thank you!
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Experience · 22 entries
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2026
Seed Investor, Advisory Board
Jan 2026
Secret Walls is the Global Leader in Live Art Entertainment. Founded in London in 2006 and built on the spirit of art competition, we exist to make space, fill rooms, and explore the arts in new, energetic, experiential ways. From IRL and URL battles to original programming and cultural storytelling, Secret Walls brings together the best artists and communities around the world to create unforgettable live experiences.
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
Bringing Games—and People—Together We believe arcade games are more than entertainment—they’re shared moments, memories, and connections. Our mission is to create a community that makes every play count, for players and operators alike. Scorbit bridges the gap between classic arcade machines and the connected world, turning each game into a chance to compete, engage, and come back for more. By empowering venues with smart tools and giving players new ways to interact, we’re building a platform where everyone wins—on and off the game floor.
Investor
Jan 2024
Pro League Network (PLN) dominates the made-for-wagering sports entertainment scene, leveraging a diverse brand portfolio to deliver thrilling live sports content optimized for betting. As industry pioneers, we craft short-form, wagering-ready experiences across our viral brands, including CarJitsu, SlapFIGHT Championship, World Putting League, Str33t, Pro Carrom Tour, and more. PLNs audience is highly concentrated in the 18-34 demographic, primarily male, boasting over 800K subscribers and followers, and generating 10 million weekly impressions. Our extensive global reach covers more than 100 countries and a portfolio of 14 owned and operated sports properties. Pro League Network thrives at the nexus of sports, media, and wagering, providing immense value to our athletes, brand partners, sportsbook partners, and audiences worldwide, and was recently shortlisted for both Media Company of the Year and US Rising Star awards for 2024.
2023
Investor
Sep 2023
Aurra Studios is an independent studio and podcast network, founded in 2019. We develop world-class original and acquired scripted and unscripted audio content, including cross-platform, branded, commissioned and companion series tied to existing IP for audiences around the world. Podcasting is taking the world by storm, with awareness and listenership reaching all-time highs as the US audience alone breached 100m monthly active users and predicted to reach over 160m by 2023. As is commonplace with digital entertainment this wave, started in the US, is now traversing the planet and already approaching the billion-dollar industry milestone. Un-surprisingly, the force behind this wave is content, with 2020 marking the year when non-English language programming exceeded English. The demand-side world of brands and agencies have clocked this phenomenal growth in listenership and major developments in analytical tools by Nielsen et al, therefore releasing mainstream digital ad spend, and buying into Podcast audiences. And it’s working. Podcast advertising enhances all the brand attribute metrics and out-performs many other media types in-part due to the intimacy of the listening experience.
mid stageEntertainment
2021
Investor
Mar 2021
StatMuse is the leader in conversational artificial intelligence for sports information and storytelling. Featuring the authentic voices of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Jerry Rice, Todd Gurley and Scott Van Pelt, the proprietary StatMuse knowledge engine provides instant answers to trillions of sports questions. `Ask StatMuse`​ for stats, scores, schedules, standings, bios, recaps and more -- from live games all the way back to the inaugural seasons -- for the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL. Available on your favorite voice assistant and messaging bot platform. "Alexa, talk with StatMuse"​ "Hey Google, talk with StatMuse"​
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