Mat Kaliski

Partner at Acronym Venture Capital

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
16
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7
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Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Oct 2024
Zoneomics is a real estate intelligence platform that turns fragmented land-use zoning data into actionable insights for investment analysis and business optimization. Trusted by real estate, development, and legal professionals, Zoneomics centralizes zoning and planning data into a single platform. With our SaaS, API, and Zoning Reports solutions, businesses access critical insights to make informed decisions—faster and more efficiently.
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Jul 2024
Tradeverifyd® is defining the global standard for enterprise supply chain resilience and risk management. Our mission is to illuminate and monitor supply chains down to their raw materials, providing organizations with a comprehensive score that measures the ability of suppliers to deliver specific products. The Tradeverifyd® Score enables enterprises to assess risk and resilience with precision, driving informed decision-making and actionable insights at every level of the organization. Trusted by governments and enterprises worldwide, Tradeverifyd ensures data security and privacy using internationally recognized standards. Empowering businesses to navigate complexity with confidence, Tradeverifyd is defining the future of supply chain intelligence.
Venture Capital Investor
Aug 2023
Sailes is Sales, with AI: Unlimited Digital Labor. Unlimited Leads. No Data Required.
Venture Capital Investor
Jun 2022
The leading gratuity management solution for hospitality. Brands like Marco’s Pizza, Applebee’s, Walk-On’s and more use Kickfin to send cashless tip payments directly to their employees bank accounts, the second their shift ends — 24/7/365. By automating tip distributions, youll eliminate bank runs, cut your risk of theft, and reduce labor costs. Bonus: youll hire more workers by giving employees instant access to their earnings. Implementation is fast and free: Restaurants can get Kickfin up and running overnight — no contracts or setup fees — and save $1,000 a month. Other tip-out solutions (from payroll to pay cards to plain old cash) are costing you and your employees. Kickfin’s technology saves time, money and hassle. Give your team financial freedom, and get immediate ROI, with Kickfin.
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Jul 2021
You deserve better than overpriced tattoo care products that fall short of their promises. You deserve a simple product with effective ingredients that give you the confidence to show off your tattoos. You deserve aftercare made especially for your tattoo - products that make your tattoo more vibrant, help it withstand aging, and let you live your life without worrying about what it will look like in the future. We’re inspired by the tattoo artists that wake up every day to create beautiful art on their clients bodies - the ones that create art to reflect personality and milestones. They put in the effort to create your art, so we are putting in the effort to make sure your tattoo maintains its natural vibrancy. Our mission is to provide the best performing line of tattoo aftercare products that meet all of your tattoo needs. We hope to deliver on our promise to you and keep you excited about all that our aftercare has to offer.
early stageRetail
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Jul 2021
Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to an increase in near me searches.
Investor
Sep 2019
We connect patients, doctors, and developers to accelerate healthcare innovation. Our customers range from independent doctors offices like Grand Street Dental to public tech companies like SmileDirectClub. We help doctors modernize their businesses, help developers innovate faster, and help patients receive a modern healthcare experience. We’re pursuing a society-changing goal and the market opportunity is open for the taking. We’ve 5X’d in the last year, and as an early stage employee you will have the chance to make a foundational impact on our company’s continued growth.
Investor
Aug 2019
Your CRM isnt made for outside sales teams. Outside reps don’t need lists, sequences and never-ending activity logs. They need to see and log data how they want to: on a map. Map My Customers is the only map-based CRM made for outside reps first. Other CRMs are a great wrench. But you need a hammer.
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Apr 2019
About Confiant Confiant’s mission is to make the digital world safe for everyone. Confiant is a cybersecurity ad tech and malware prevention services provider. We help enterprises, publishers and ad platforms take back control of the ad experience. Our solution protects your reputation, revenue, and resources by providing real-time verification of digital advertisements. Confiant’s technology actively blocks and detects malicious activity and low-quality ads. Our technology provides industry-leading protection from cyber threats including malvertising, disruptive ads, and privacy risks. Confiant empowers premium ad platforms and publishers with actionable data to ensure the digital ad ecosystem is safe and secure for everyone. We detect and protect billions of ad impressions per month for our clients, which include OpenX, Magnite, CBSinteractive, Complex media, Gannett, and Politico.
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Dec 2018
Penny AI exponentially increases revenue by enabling and empowering direct sales field consultants and leaders. All while providing corporate teams with the data, insights, and the pace of innovation for the digital-first future. Our team is based just outside of Vancouver. We're on a mission to build brilliant technology that inspires action, builds momentum, and creates belief in Consultants all around the world.
Investor
Oct 2018
Zylotech, a Terminus Company, is a recognized leading customer data platform, connects the information and insights you have to deliver the experience your customers need and the revenue you want faster. We give operations-focused teams contact intelligence with data governance, ABM enablement, a customer data platform (CDP), and AI-driven predictive analytics - all rolled into one platform. Zylotech works with global leaders like Cisco, Google, and Palo Alto Networks to build and maintain contact and account foundations for scale and to deliver insights for real-time action. Launched in 2015, Zylotech is headquartered in Boston, with offices in India. More information is available at www.zylotech.com.
Investor
May 2018
Student Loan Genius is now Vault. Please visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/vaultbenefit/ Vault provides the most comprehensive software platform in the market to address the financial burden of student loan debt. Our intuitive web-based tool provides a highly secure employee experience that empowers your employees to achieve financial freedom. With the option to make contributions to your employees’ debt repayment, Vault enables you to attract and retain your valuable talent.
Investor
Mar 2018
Carpe was founded with one mission: to help those suffering with embarrassing, uncomfortable sweat. We are reimagining everything that antiperspirants and sweat control can be. We grew up with sweaty palms, hesitating to hold a hand or reach for that handshake. We spent a year developing over 60 prototypes until we created a product that worked for us. After launching in 2014, we heard from countless customers for whom nothing else had worked asking us to expand our sweat solution line. We have grown into a full suite of products designed to help no matter where, no matter why, and no matter how much you sweat.
Venture Capital Investor
Sep 2017
Maestro is an all-in-one interactive video platform and live streaming solution designed to convert passive audiences into active customers. Maestro’s proprietary, easy-to-use platform unlocks the full potential of live streaming and on-demand content through two-way communication, personalized experiences, and measurable business insights. Maestro is utilized  by the world’s biggest brands and talent such as Apple, Billie Eilish, Fortnite, Pandora, VidCon, Microsoft, Fortnite, Coachella, The Grammys, Activision Blizzard, Adweek, Dallas Cowboys, Adobe, Tim McGraw and many more. Maestro has raised over $22 million from a distinct group of strategic companies, venture capital firms, and industry titans including NetEase, Sony Music Entertainment, Acronym Venture Capital, SeventySix Capital, Stadia Ventures, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and Mike and Amy Morhaime via Moonwell Capital.
Investor
Sep 2017
We’re Maestro, a learning innovation company. We’re disrupting traditional learning through bold, creative solutions that inspire meaningful change. In an industry that has long been neglected, we’ve taken the stance that learning is a positive force for change—and we’ve built an organization strong enough to drive it. Our team’s dedication to their disciplines—strategy, design, media, and engineering—means that we can solve all kinds of problems through learning. For more than fifteen years, we’ve partnered with leading brands like Google, Target, Netflix, Royal Caribbean, and Johnson & Johnson to help grow their people and their bottom lines. Here are just some of the ways we create change: Learning strategy eLearning Websites Media Branding ILT & vILT Custom software Software products Simulations & mixed reality Customer education How can we help you inspire change? Get in touch for a casual conversation about your learning challenge and the business impact you’re after.
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2024
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Oct 2024
Zoneomics is a real estate intelligence platform that turns fragmented land-use zoning data into actionable insights for investment analysis and business optimization. Trusted by real estate, development, and legal professionals, Zoneomics centralizes zoning and planning data into a single platform. With our SaaS, API, and Zoning Reports solutions, businesses access critical insights to make informed decisions—faster and more efficiently.
Venture Capital Investor / Board Observer
Jul 2024
Tradeverifyd® is defining the global standard for enterprise supply chain resilience and risk management. Our mission is to illuminate and monitor supply chains down to their raw materials, providing organizations with a comprehensive score that measures the ability of suppliers to deliver specific products. The Tradeverifyd® Score enables enterprises to assess risk and resilience with precision, driving informed decision-making and actionable insights at every level of the organization. Trusted by governments and enterprises worldwide, Tradeverifyd ensures data security and privacy using internationally recognized standards. Empowering businesses to navigate complexity with confidence, Tradeverifyd is defining the future of supply chain intelligence.
2023
Venture Capital Investor
Aug 2023
Sailes is Sales, with AI: Unlimited Digital Labor. Unlimited Leads. No Data Required.
Venture Capital Investor / Board Director
May 2023
Envoy and our Envoy Companions across the country have been addressing the social determinants of health, including isolation, disengagement and loneliness since 2015, for older adults who stand to benefit from companionship, assistance and transportation services. By providing access to social support inside & outside the home, those using the Envoy service are less likely to need costly medical intervention and more able to live independent, healthy and more socially active lives. Across the US, health plans, senior living communities, employers and families look to Envoy to provide care to their members & residents, similar to what a son or daughter would do to support their elderly mom, dad or loved one.
2022
Venture Capital Investor / Board Director
Dec 2022
Dataplor is a global location intelligence provider delivering precise, verified data on 370M+ places and 15K+ brands across 250+ countries and territories. Our datasets offer standardized business information, foot traffic insights, and brand attributes at scale. Serving alternative investments, commercial real estate, third party logistics, mapping, as well as retail, consumer packaged goods, and quick service restaurants, dataplor’s granular, consistent data is leveraged by our clients to analyze markets, assess commercial activity, understand consumer behavior, and support data-driven investments.
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