Matt Hersh

Investor & Operating Partner @ Fika Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
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Board Observer
May 2025
Modern Trade Reporting & Compliance
Board Observer
Nov 2023
Sunbound is the leading tech-enabled finance platform built exclusively for senior care. More than a digital payments platform - Sunbound helps Operators improve on-time payments, maximize revenue & optimize working capital all while providing a better payment experience for families. Founded in 2021, Sunbound is backed by Fika Ventures, Bling Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, Max Ventures, Cambrian Ventures, Ride Ventures, Mu Ventures and Not Boring Ventures along with leading startup, financial and real estate company executives.
Operating Partner + Fintech Investor
Aug 2021
Fika Ventures is a Los Angeles based early-stage venture capital firm started in 2016 with over ~$350M in AUM. In 7 years, we’ve invested in transformative companies across enterprise/AI (BuildOps, Specright, Siro, Edge Impulse), fintech (Papaya, Pipe, Payabli), marketplaces (Upwards, Chowbus, Atticus), and health tech (Zentist, Noyo).
Board Member
Jul 2021
Upfort is a leading platform for cyber security and insurance that provides holistic protection from evolving cyber threats. Founded in 2017 to expand global access to cyber resilience, Upfort makes cyber risk easy to manage and simple to insure. Upfort delivers turnkey security proven to proactively mitigate risk and comprehensive cyber insurance from leading insurers. With proprietary data and intelligent automation, Upfort’s AI anticipates risk and streamlines mitigation for hassle-free underwriting. Insurers, brokers, and risk advisors partner with Upfort to offer clients resilience and peace of mind against cyber threats.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Glidian integrates directly with virtually every payor to simplify one of the most broken processes in healthcare: Prior Authorizations Prior authorizations cause dangerous delays in patient care, produce a significant administrative burden on healthcare professionals, and can lead to extensive losses in revenue. We are on a mission to enhance healthcare delivery for providers and patients by integrating with payors for a streamlined, painless care experience.
Board Observer
Jan 2021
Edge Impulse offers the latest in machine learning tooling, enabling all enterprises to build smarter edge products. Our technology empowers developers to bring more AI products to market faster, and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years. Edge Impulse provides powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced AI with streaming data. With over 190,000 developers, and partnerships with the top silicon vendors, Edge Impulse delivers a seamless integration experience to validate and deploy with confidence across the largest hardware ecosystem.
Board Observer
Jan 2021
Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs or low code drop-in modules.
Los Angeles Co-Lead
Aug 2019
The Emerging Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA) is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the next generation of leaders in the venture capital industry. EVCA is the primary community for the emerging (pre-partner & junior partner) venture capital investor. Founded in 2017, our 1300+ investors come from a diverse assortment of backgrounds to share insights on industry verticals, co-investment opportunities, career planning, community service, and personal interests.
Advisor & Investor
Feb 2012
Advancing the future of flight.
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2025
Board Observer
May 2025
Modern Trade Reporting & Compliance
2023
Board Observer
Nov 2023
Sunbound is the leading tech-enabled finance platform built exclusively for senior care. More than a digital payments platform - Sunbound helps Operators improve on-time payments, maximize revenue & optimize working capital all while providing a better payment experience for families. Founded in 2021, Sunbound is backed by Fika Ventures, Bling Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, Max Ventures, Cambrian Ventures, Ride Ventures, Mu Ventures and Not Boring Ventures along with leading startup, financial and real estate company executives.
2021
Operating Partner + Fintech Investor
Aug 2021
Fika Ventures is a Los Angeles based early-stage venture capital firm started in 2016 with over ~$350M in AUM. In 7 years, we’ve invested in transformative companies across enterprise/AI (BuildOps, Specright, Siro, Edge Impulse), fintech (Papaya, Pipe, Payabli), marketplaces (Upwards, Chowbus, Atticus), and health tech (Zentist, Noyo).
Board Member
Jul 2021
Upfort is a leading platform for cyber security and insurance that provides holistic protection from evolving cyber threats. Founded in 2017 to expand global access to cyber resilience, Upfort makes cyber risk easy to manage and simple to insure. Upfort delivers turnkey security proven to proactively mitigate risk and comprehensive cyber insurance from leading insurers. With proprietary data and intelligent automation, Upfort’s AI anticipates risk and streamlines mitigation for hassle-free underwriting. Insurers, brokers, and risk advisors partner with Upfort to offer clients resilience and peace of mind against cyber threats.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Glidian integrates directly with virtually every payor to simplify one of the most broken processes in healthcare: Prior Authorizations Prior authorizations cause dangerous delays in patient care, produce a significant administrative burden on healthcare professionals, and can lead to extensive losses in revenue. We are on a mission to enhance healthcare delivery for providers and patients by integrating with payors for a streamlined, painless care experience.
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