Matt Carney

Co-Founder, Partner | LWK Partners

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Vice President - Investments
Jan 2024
Investor
Mar 2022
Founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr is building the worlds first real money gaming super app. The companys first product, Betr Picks, launched in September 2023 and quickly grew to several hundreds of thousands of paying users that have already won $250M on the platform. Betr recently launched Betr Arcade with plans on launching additional new nationwide gaming products within its single app experience in 2025 to further differentiate its product offering. In addition to its single-app experience, Betrs gaming products are differentiated through a unique, simplified user interface that is catered to the casual sports fan and gamer, enabling Betr to capture more of the under-penetrated online gaming addressable market. Betrs media division, Betr Media, is one of the fastest growing sports gaming media brands in the U.S. and helps support the companys user acquisition and retention efforts. Betr is backed by Fuel Venture Capital, Aliya Capital Partners, IA Sports Ventures, FinSight Ventures, Florida Funders, Harmony Partners, 8vc, and other top-tier investors. Visit betr.app or follow @betr on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. To learn more about responsible play, visit betr.app/responsibility.
Board Observer
Jul 2018
Founded in 2016 as a growth oriented midstream company, Cureton has excelled in developing and operating infrastructure to gather and process natural gas and natural gas products from oil and gas wells in Colorado and transport to local and national markets. With a focus on operating in a safe, efficient and environmentally responsible manner, Cureton’s commitment to the wellbeing of our customers, communities, and people drives our mission to solve America’s energy infrastructure problems of tomorrow through experience and innovation.
early stageOil and Gas
Board Observer
Jul 2018
Verdad Resources, LLC is a privately held oil and gas producer with operations in the DJ Basin of Colorado.
early stageOil and Gas
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2025
Co-Founder, Partner
Nov 2025
Talaria Holdings is a private firm focused on co-investments across sports & live entertainment, select venture opportunities, and other private markets special situations.
2024
Vice President - Investments
Jan 2024
2023
Co-Founder, Partner
Dec 2023
LWK is a joint venture between Keystone Investors and LightWell Real Estate Partners, focused on the acquisition and operation of sub-institutional value-add multifamily assets in Greater Los Angeles. LWK targets undermanaged assets with multiple levers to create value through operational improvements, value-add renovations, and opportunities to add density via ADU development.
2022
Investor
Mar 2022
Founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, Betr is building the worlds first real money gaming super app. The companys first product, Betr Picks, launched in September 2023 and quickly grew to several hundreds of thousands of paying users that have already won $250M on the platform. Betr recently launched Betr Arcade with plans on launching additional new nationwide gaming products within its single app experience in 2025 to further differentiate its product offering. In addition to its single-app experience, Betrs gaming products are differentiated through a unique, simplified user interface that is catered to the casual sports fan and gamer, enabling Betr to capture more of the under-penetrated online gaming addressable market. Betrs media division, Betr Media, is one of the fastest growing sports gaming media brands in the U.S. and helps support the companys user acquisition and retention efforts. Betr is backed by Fuel Venture Capital, Aliya Capital Partners, IA Sports Ventures, FinSight Ventures, Florida Funders, Harmony Partners, 8vc, and other top-tier investors. Visit betr.app or follow @betr on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. To learn more about responsible play, visit betr.app/responsibility.
2021
Director of Acquisitions
Sep 2021
Aries Capital is a diversified, commercial real estate banking and investment firm headquartered in Chicago with offices in Miami and Los Angeles. Since its founding in 1991 by Neil Freeman, Aries Capital has arranged and/or directly funded over $8 billion for industrial, self-storage, retail, office, multifamily, hotel and other commercial assets across the United States and Caribbean. View transactions. Our banking team specializes in arranging debt and equity capital for clients nationwide through deep-rooted relationships with Wall Street CMBS Lenders, Banks/Credit Unions, Debt Funds, Family Offices, Insurance Companies, and other Institutional Equity Investors. Our investment team – operating as Aries Capital Private Equity – is focused on the acquisition and operation of industrial and logistics assets throughout the United States, with a particular emphasis on net lease assets and sale-leaseback opportunities and concentration in Florida. Aries and affiliates hold additional diversified principal investments with equity interests currently valued at over $250 million. Notable assets include The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel, The 1,000-acre Three Oaks Master Development in Fort Myers, Florida, and newly constructed Tranquility Beach Resort on Meads Bay Beach in British Caribbean Anguilla. Through our affiliate Urban Development Fund (UDF), we are also one of the most successful providers of New Market Tax Credits (NMTCs) in the United States. UDF has been awarded over $800 million in NMTCs and other tax credits, which translates into over $2 billion in transactions benefiting our country’s most distressed neighborhoods.
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