Matt Cohen

Founder & Managing Partner - 🌊 Ripple Ventures🎙 Host of Tank Talks Podcast

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated July 2026💼 23 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2026
North Vector Dynamics is building the precision autonomous systems for the future battlefield.
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Jan 2026
Canada Rocket Company (CRC) is a Toronto-based aerospace company building domestically controlled launch systems to give Canada sovereign access to space. We are developing a scalable family of reusable launch vehicles to support national security, civil, and commercial missions—addressing a critical gap in Canada’s defence and space infrastructure while creating a rare opportunity to work on end-to-end launch system development inside the country. CRC is led by engineers with deep orbital launch experience and is focused on bringing Canadian aerospace talent home while training the next generation. Our work supports defence readiness, allied interoperability, and long-term industrial resilience, while offering engineers hands-on responsibility for orbital-class flight hardware, close collaboration with industry partners, and a direct role in establishing launch as a strategic national capability. Join us!
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Sep 2025
We’re building a portfolio of four verticalized SaaS companies (“leafs”) powered by AI agents — each designed to drive revenue for businesses on autopilot. We’re a small team of acquired founders, growth hackers and creators who have cracked unfair distribution. Every company we build is one we wish had existed when we were starting out, now led by exceptional operators. Our companies average $1M ARR within 3 months. Been profitable since day 1, with millions of users across our products. We’ve only just begun.
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Sep 2024
Mycroft is the AI-native security and compliance platform purpose-built for modern companies. Our core product is Mycrofts AI Security and Compliance Officer, an autonomous AI agent designed to manage and operate your full security and IT stack – from securing your laptops to acing your next SOC 2 audit. This isnt just a tool; its your virtual CISO, GRC expert, and IT ops team, all rolled into one. Focus on building your vision, while our AI agent ensures your foundation is rock solid and fully compliant, 24/7. Its time to modernize your security and compliance and scale with confidence.
Investor & Board Member
Aug 2024
Katalyze is an AI-based optimization platform designed to increase the efficiency of biomanufacturing. By providing an integrated and comprehensive platform, Katalyze offers an end-to-end solution from raw material optimization to traceability. Our software is highly flexible and can be tailored to your needs - develop your AI use cases with us or use our a là carte modules.
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Jul 2024
Theo Ai is creating the worlds most accurate legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal disputes. Weve raised $7M led by Nextview Ventures and Collide Capital with participation from nvp capital, Ripple Ventures, Beat Ventures and Four Acres.
early stageLegal Services
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2023
NetNow offers a comprehensive technology solution for your credit team. With our trade credit platform, you can quickly onboard customers, make precise credit approvals, and proactively manage risks. Our technology empowers you to develop a top-tier credit department, transforming your finance team into a significant competitive asset. Explore our website to discover more.
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2020
Rose Rocket is a platform transportation management software (TMS) that help manage the unique needs of today’s transportation companies. With Rose Rocket’s Platform TMS, companies can improve communications with systems, customers, and the people who move freight. Its open platform makes it easy to connect to the software that runs your business – from QuickBooks to Samsara and more. Key features include: industry-leading Customer & Partner portals, same-time planning and dispatching modules, real-time shipment visibility, consolidated invoicing and billing capabilities, real-time reporting, and a driver mobile app. Rose Rocket is a venture-backed alumni company of Y Combinator, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Investor & Board Member
Nov 2019
Apteo's mission is to help finance professionals make better decisions with A.I. and analytics. We're a New York startup that believes everyone should be able to use data and the most advanced analytics techniques to make better business decisions. Our data science platform helps firms solve data relevance and analysis issues in two ways: 1) Our data catalog centralizes all of your firms'​ internal data alongside over 2 million public datasets we've already aggregated and categorized by industry, company, and keyword 2) Our analytics module lets anyone use advanced machine learning techniques to identify, forecast, and understand the most relevant drivers of key financial metrics Sign up for a free trial of our platform at www.apteo.co
Investor & Board Member
Sep 2019
Wisedocs is an AI powered automation platform that processes and understands medical documents in real time, making it easier for organizations in the insurance industry to evaluate medical claims faster and more accurately. Through Wisedocs, organizations can automatically sort, index, summarize and review messy unstructured medical documents. Our clients today are benefiting from an 85% time reduction and a 55% cost reduction in document reviews.
early stageInsurance
Private Investor
Jan 2019
Superette is a retail brand that makes buying cannabis as enjoyable as consuming it. In the current sea of cannabis retailers, we wanted to take a fresh approach and do things differently. So we leaned into more nostalgic and traditional retail environments to create an immersive yet familiar experience. Every thoughtful detail of our brand, whether in-store at one of our four locations or online, is all about creating moments of delight at every step of the way.
early stageRetail
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2018
The leading enterprise platform to build AI Agents for Customer Service - used by 4,000+ businesses from scaling startups to the Fortune 500. Book a demo with our team to learn how your business can provide better customer experiences at scale.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2018
Tread is the easiest and most powerful Construction Materials Platform. From order to dispatch to pay, Tread’s mission is to help producers, haulers, and contractors save time and money by digitizing the end-to-end process of buying and moving construction materials. With a purpose-built app for web and mobile, Tread allows operations staff to quote and place orders, schedule and dispatch drivers, and reconcile and pay tickets – all in one place – from anywhere at any time. We serve hundreds of construction materials businesses from global enterprises to multi-generation family-run businesses, including Cemex, Tomlinson, Martin Marietta, R&R Transport, John Aarts Group, Gulfshore Trucking, and more. Through modern design, outstanding customer experience, and world-class support, Tread works across time zones and geographies to transform the construction industry. Learn more at tread.io
Investor & Board Member
Mar 2018
OnCall by Qualifacts’ virtual care and client portal software is the only industry-leading and deeply integrated portal solution. Purpose-built for behavioral health, organizations use OnCall to deliver a superior client experience and manage virtual care operations efficiently.
Private Investor
Oct 2017
Rose Rocket is a platform transportation management software (TMS) that help manage the unique needs of today’s transportation companies. With Rose Rocket’s Platform TMS, companies can improve communications with systems, customers, and the people who move freight. Its open platform makes it easy to connect to the software that runs your business – from QuickBooks to Samsara and more. Key features include: industry-leading Customer & Partner portals, same-time planning and dispatching modules, real-time shipment visibility, consolidated invoicing and billing capabilities, real-time reporting, and a driver mobile app. Rose Rocket is a venture-backed alumni company of Y Combinator, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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2026
Investor
Jan 2026
North Vector Dynamics is building the precision autonomous systems for the future battlefield.
Investor
Jan 2026
Canada Rocket Company (CRC) is a Toronto-based aerospace company building domestically controlled launch systems to give Canada sovereign access to space. We are developing a scalable family of reusable launch vehicles to support national security, civil, and commercial missions—addressing a critical gap in Canada’s defence and space infrastructure while creating a rare opportunity to work on end-to-end launch system development inside the country. CRC is led by engineers with deep orbital launch experience and is focused on bringing Canadian aerospace talent home while training the next generation. Our work supports defence readiness, allied interoperability, and long-term industrial resilience, while offering engineers hands-on responsibility for orbital-class flight hardware, close collaboration with industry partners, and a direct role in establishing launch as a strategic national capability. Join us!
2025
Investor
Sep 2025
We’re building a portfolio of four verticalized SaaS companies (“leafs”) powered by AI agents — each designed to drive revenue for businesses on autopilot. We’re a small team of acquired founders, growth hackers and creators who have cracked unfair distribution. Every company we build is one we wish had existed when we were starting out, now led by exceptional operators. Our companies average $1M ARR within 3 months. Been profitable since day 1, with millions of users across our products. We’ve only just begun.
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
Mycroft is the AI-native security and compliance platform purpose-built for modern companies. Our core product is Mycrofts AI Security and Compliance Officer, an autonomous AI agent designed to manage and operate your full security and IT stack – from securing your laptops to acing your next SOC 2 audit. This isnt just a tool; its your virtual CISO, GRC expert, and IT ops team, all rolled into one. Focus on building your vision, while our AI agent ensures your foundation is rock solid and fully compliant, 24/7. Its time to modernize your security and compliance and scale with confidence.
Investor & Board Member
Aug 2024
Katalyze is an AI-based optimization platform designed to increase the efficiency of biomanufacturing. By providing an integrated and comprehensive platform, Katalyze offers an end-to-end solution from raw material optimization to traceability. Our software is highly flexible and can be tailored to your needs - develop your AI use cases with us or use our a là carte modules.
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