Matt Brennan

Co-founder and General Partner

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Apr 2024
Nagomi Security gives enterprise security teams the control to eliminate exposure, faster and at scale. As the execution layer of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Nagomi unifies asset visibility, contextual prioritization, remediation guidance, and performance reporting in a single platform. At its core is Exposure Lens, the only engine that correlates assets, controls, vulnerabilities, and threats to show risk in context across subsidiaries and business units. By validating defenses and directing fixes to the right owners, Nagomi ensures issues are resolved instead of tracked, closing exposures faster, strengthening defenses continuously, and delivering measurable progress for both security and business leaders. Recognized by Gartner® as a Cool Vendor, Nagomi is a pioneer in Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA), helping organizations operationalize exposure management and drive down risk with the tools they already own.
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Mar 2024
Meet Albert, the partner for the scientist of the future. Enterprises partner with Albert to reimagine how they invent. From digitalizing R&D and managing change at scale, to unlocking entirely new business models with AI, chemical and materials science leaders rely on Albert to achieve digital transformation — and ensure it delivers lasting value. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster. Your science moves the world forward. We move everything else out of your way.
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Apr 2023
Avalor, now part of Zscaler, has deep roots in data. Our technical team has built multiple platforms to ingest, deduplicate, correlate, and enrich data across hundreds of sources. We applied this expertise to the security world, building the industrys first Data Fabric for Security. This platform helps companies aggregate and correlate findings and context across their full range of security and business tools to better understand and manage risk. The data model at the heart of our Data Fabric is both opinionated and flexible – opinionated to support security use cases but flexible so it can accommodate any data type, risk factors, metrics, or workflows the business needs. Our Unified Vulnerability Management module taps into that Data Fabric to provide immediate insights and workflows to reduce risk. UVM takes in both traditional vulnerability and exploitability data sources as well as contextual data spanning identity, cloud, asset, user behavior, mitigating controls, and other business context. UVM then correlates that data to provide a contextual risk score, which companies can further customize. UVM also automates sending priority action items with workflows tailored to the company’s structure and processes so teams can reduce the risk posture. With our Data Fabric and UVM application, security leaders can finally get value out of all their security tools and meaningfully reduce business risk.
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Aug 2022
Ship Agents that Work. Arize AI & Agent Engineering Platform. One place for development, observability, and evaluation.
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Feb 2022
Syllable brings empathy, transparency, and intelligence to every patient touchpoint outside the hospital. In 2021, Syllable interacted with 39.7M Americans in text and voice about primary care, specialty referrals, vaccinations, and general practice information. Syllable was also recognized as a most promising startup in healthcare for 2022 by CB Insights, picked as a leader in the private market from a pool of 7,000 companies – chosen based on R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, business relationships, investor profile, competitive landscape, team strength, and technology novelty.
Board Member
Jan 2022
BenchSci’s vision is to exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research by empowering scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Inovia Capital, and TCV, our platform accelerates science at 16 of the top-20 pharmaceutical companies, and over 4,300 leading research centers worldwide. We’re a remote-first company recognized for our impact and culture as a Deloitte Tech Fast 50TM, CIX Top 10 Growth, and Great Place to Work®.
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Nov 2021
Legit Security is the AppSec platform purpose-built to secure AI-powered development. Legit VibeGuard provides complete visibility and security for AI code and development processes. Legit ASPM extends that protection across your entire SDLC – unifying AppSec testing, secrets prevention, software supply chain security and vulnerability management in a unified control plane.
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Apr 2021
Array is a financial innovation platform that helps digital brands, financial institutions, and fintechs get compelling consumer products to market faster. Our suite of private label offerings helps our partners drive revenue, increase engagement, and empower millions of consumers to achieve their financial goals. Array was founded in 2020 by Martin Toha and Phillip Zedalis. Key investors include Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, and Nyca Partners. To learn more visit array.com.
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Sep 2020
Our mission is to keep small business in business. When we started Melio, we wanted to build more than an efficient Accounts Payable tool. We wanted to build a service that helps small businesses keep up with business. A B2B payments experience that not only saves time but also significantly improves cash flow. A payment workflow so simple it helps businesses focus on their customers, not their back office.
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Mar 2020
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Feb 2019
Build Bold. Liberate global commerce with all the tools your business needs to create payment, payout and fintech experiences everywhere. Around the world, customers want to pay in a thousand different ways. Businesses and consumers want to get paid faster. And developers want to build new products and possibilities. Rapyd makes it happen, giving you more ways than anyone to make fintech work for your business. With Rapyd, your business can accept and send payments to just about anyone—faster, cheaper and easier. And Rapyd clients see an average of 196% return on investment and spend 70% less time managing payments. Whether you’re building an app, selling a product, sending payments or doing a little of everything, Rapyd has solutions that let you boldly do what you do best. • Send and receive funds • Add hundreds of payment methods worldwide • Issue prepaid virtual and physical cards • Simplify money management and foreign exchange • Integrate fintech with APIs
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Dec 2017
Passport is the leader in unified parking and curb management. By integrating parking, enforcement and payments into one software solution, Passport is the only platform that brings together the complexities of mobility operations into one view to help cities improve decision-making and efficiencies. From mobile payments to citation issuance, permitting technology and more, Passport is empowering cities of all sizes with better insights to improve parking turnover, expand revenue opportunities, and create more livable communities. Passport is trusted by more than 800 clients across North America.
Board Member
Jul 2017
Real-time payments, multiple currencies, and global distribution options are just a few of the reasons we're leaders in the prepaid industry. At Swift we provide efficient, flexible payment mechanisms, and help our clients design prepaid programs that drive revenue, increase efficiency and strengthen brands. We're raising the bar for effective prepaid solutions, revolutionizing the industry with technology, and providing service and results that extend far beyond the competition. Visit www.swiftprepaid.com to learn more.
Board Member
Jul 2017
We formed Syncapay, Inc. with a vision to acquire a family of high growth, leading edge Payments companies with disruptive technology and solutions, leveraging the many synergies between them. With our heritage and expertise in Payments with companies such as Parago/Blackhawk, Ecount/Citi Prepaid, American Express, AvidXchange, Flywire, iPay and more, we knew there was an opportunity to create something substantial and meaningful. Our focus is on companies who provide, facilitate or issue Payments to consumers, employees or other businesses in growth markets around the world. In late 2017, we made our first acquisition - Swift Prepaid Solutions.
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May 2017
Acorns believes that anyone can achieve financial wellness — that’s why they’ve been building simple, powerful money tools for everyday Americans and their kids since 2014. Acorns is the app that makes it easy to spend smarter today, save for tomorrow, and invest for your future. Acorns Early is a smart money app and debit card that helps kids grow their money skills — and their money — while they grow up. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 13 million all-time customers save and invest over $22 billion dollars, much of it from spare change.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Strata Capital backs founders who have built real, durable businesses before the market recognizes them. The firm invests in technology companies serving mission-critical needs, delivering strong growth, and outperforming peers with greater capital efficiency. AI is expanding what great software businesses can become, lowering the cost of building while increasing the scope of value they can deliver.
2024
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Apr 2024
Nagomi Security gives enterprise security teams the control to eliminate exposure, faster and at scale. As the execution layer of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Nagomi unifies asset visibility, contextual prioritization, remediation guidance, and performance reporting in a single platform. At its core is Exposure Lens, the only engine that correlates assets, controls, vulnerabilities, and threats to show risk in context across subsidiaries and business units. By validating defenses and directing fixes to the right owners, Nagomi ensures issues are resolved instead of tracked, closing exposures faster, strengthening defenses continuously, and delivering measurable progress for both security and business leaders. Recognized by Gartner® as a Cool Vendor, Nagomi is a pioneer in Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA), helping organizations operationalize exposure management and drive down risk with the tools they already own.
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Mar 2024
Meet Albert, the partner for the scientist of the future. Enterprises partner with Albert to reimagine how they invent. From digitalizing R&D and managing change at scale, to unlocking entirely new business models with AI, chemical and materials science leaders rely on Albert to achieve digital transformation — and ensure it delivers lasting value. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster. Your science moves the world forward. We move everything else out of your way.
2023
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Apr 2023
Avalor, now part of Zscaler, has deep roots in data. Our technical team has built multiple platforms to ingest, deduplicate, correlate, and enrich data across hundreds of sources. We applied this expertise to the security world, building the industrys first Data Fabric for Security. This platform helps companies aggregate and correlate findings and context across their full range of security and business tools to better understand and manage risk. The data model at the heart of our Data Fabric is both opinionated and flexible – opinionated to support security use cases but flexible so it can accommodate any data type, risk factors, metrics, or workflows the business needs. Our Unified Vulnerability Management module taps into that Data Fabric to provide immediate insights and workflows to reduce risk. UVM takes in both traditional vulnerability and exploitability data sources as well as contextual data spanning identity, cloud, asset, user behavior, mitigating controls, and other business context. UVM then correlates that data to provide a contextual risk score, which companies can further customize. UVM also automates sending priority action items with workflows tailored to the company’s structure and processes so teams can reduce the risk posture. With our Data Fabric and UVM application, security leaders can finally get value out of all their security tools and meaningfully reduce business risk.
2022
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Aug 2022
Ship Agents that Work. Arize AI & Agent Engineering Platform. One place for development, observability, and evaluation.
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