Marco Matos

Westbound Equity Partners is an early stage firm investing financial and social capital into exceptional leaders and teams who come from all walks of life to build generationally great companies. Our support goes beyond capital: the Westbound team and Network partner deeply with founders to build intentional, winning cultures and scale with excellence.

Harlem Capital ("HCP"​) is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years. We invest at Pre-seed and Seed.

Westbound Equity Partners is an early stage firm investing financial and social capital into exceptional leaders and teams who come from all walks of life to build generationally great companies. Our support goes beyond capital: the Westbound team and Network partner deeply with founders to build intentional, winning cultures and scale with excellence.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

Harlem Capital ("HCP"​) is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years. We invest at Pre-seed and Seed.