Matthew Gutermuth

Chief Executive Officer | Operating Executive | Board and Advisory Leader | Retail |Consumer | Foodservice | Technology | Distribution

📍 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
Angel investor🌍 United States
9
Total investments
3
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1
Mid stage
3
Late stage
14y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Jan 2025
Ensure every student, no matter their socioeconomic status, has direct access to a quality education through a positive learning environment and resources needed in order to thrive and be successful. The vision of the Armstead Academic Project is to positively impact the Sacramento Public School system by serving our students and providing equality. Arik believes in the adage: “Nurture over nature and that every student has the ability to succeed if provided opportunities and a quality education.”
Board Member
Jan 2024
Founded by Keith Davis, Nebula9 is an award-winning, smooth flavored vodka. A former star athlete, Keith set out to create an artisanal vodka that tastes great and includes benefits. Nebula9 is a unique, sugar-free vodka infused with organic apple cider drinking vinegar. The result is a smooth, tasty ultra-premium vodka which is easy on the body and minimizes hangovers. 4RTD Cocktails: Pommi Blue Cosmo Pineapple Passionfruit Paradise Grape Beyond Moscow Mule
Board Member
Jan 2019
VIPER uses proprietary, AI-generated data trending and simplified follow-up techniques to drive significant improvement to gross margin.  Highly efficient (online in 12 weeks); with no capital expenditure, and minimal labor requirements.  Results are fully measurable, isolatable, and GUARANTEED; making VIPER a low-risk, high reward solution.
early stageRetail
Board Member
Oct 2017
Jacksonville University is the region's premier private institution with more than 100 majors and programs from undergraduate to doctorate.
Founding Board Member
Jul 2017
In a category of its own: TendedBar is an industry-first innovative self-pour automated bar designed to significantly prevent loss and improve service to customers, all while providing a drink-ordering experience that’s faster, cleaner and more controlled. The result provides fans with less time waiting in lines, quicker access to drinks, and an overall improved experience that serves drinks in seconds, so fans don’t miss a minute. ...Perfect for any of the following: 🏟Arenas & stadiums 🎟Music festivals ⛳️Golf courses ✈️Airport terminals & lounges 🏨Convention centers 🏖Resorts & hotels 🍾Weddings & celebrations 🎰Casinos & racetracks Drive revenue & improve your guests' experience with our safe, quick, and easy-to-use system! Interested? Please DM us here or email us at: info@tendedbar.com
early stageHospitality
Board Member
May 2017
I.Me.Mine Digital helps retailers improve customer loyalty via our big data-based, machine learning environment that we call our Cognitive Retail Shopper Personalization Platform. In summary, I.Me.Mine offers an advanced shopper personalization solution designed to individually curate highly targeted, relevant, time-sensitive and location-aware offers for individual shoppers leveraging a broad assortment of retailer and CPG sponsored offer types such as Personal Deals, Ads/Flyers, TPRs, Digital Coupons and Markdowns. These offers are provided to shoppers leveraging a privately branded omni-channel-based delivery model which results in a personal digital circular for each shopper that can be accessed via Mobile, Web, Email, Text and Social platforms. With human-centered design and automated machine learning, our SaaS platform is built to deliver sustainable competitive advantage via your frequent shopper program: Incentivize your most loyal shoppers to buy more categories from you. Encourage more profitable baskets. Establish a better price image versus competitive retailers.
mid stageInternet
Board Member
Jun 2016
GrocerKey provides robust eCommerce technology built from the inside out through decades of eCommerce grocery operational experience to help grocery retailers modernize their business via profitable eCommerce. GrocerKey partners with leading grocery retailers throughout the US & Canada. GrocerKey ranked #311 on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America and #13 on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Midwest. For more information, please visit www.GrocerKey.com
Board Member
Oct 2015
Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851, Saint Joseph's University advances the professional and personal ambitions of men and women by providing a demanding, yet supportive, educational experience. One of only 152 schools with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and AACSB business school accreditation, Saint Joseph's is home to 4,650 traditional undergraduate day students, 700 non-traditional undergraduates, and 3,600 graduate and doctoral students.
Board Member
Jul 2012
Direct Store Delivery (DSD) is a vital, beneficial, and profitable part of the retail supply chain. But it comes with significant operating and administrative challenges. Retailers and their DSD vendors depend on iControls technology and expertise in order to improve Delivery transparency and collaboration. iControl empowers its partners to work in Harmony with their trading partners through catalog, pricebook, receiving, point-of-sale and invoice data synchronization and matching; invoice-to-POD matching automation and payment remittance consolidation; error prevention, reconciliation and settlement; and performance analytics and forecasting. We specialize in complex and regulated categories such as Alcohol, and are also experts in processing consignment transactions, more commonly known as "Scan Based Trading."​ Our client network includes over 50,000 retail outlets and over 4,000 distributors and manufacturers in all 50 states as well as select international markets.
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2025
Board Member
Jan 2025
Ensure every student, no matter their socioeconomic status, has direct access to a quality education through a positive learning environment and resources needed in order to thrive and be successful. The vision of the Armstead Academic Project is to positively impact the Sacramento Public School system by serving our students and providing equality. Arik believes in the adage: “Nurture over nature and that every student has the ability to succeed if provided opportunities and a quality education.”
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
Founded by Keith Davis, Nebula9 is an award-winning, smooth flavored vodka. A former star athlete, Keith set out to create an artisanal vodka that tastes great and includes benefits. Nebula9 is a unique, sugar-free vodka infused with organic apple cider drinking vinegar. The result is a smooth, tasty ultra-premium vodka which is easy on the body and minimizes hangovers. 4RTD Cocktails: Pommi Blue Cosmo Pineapple Passionfruit Paradise Grape Beyond Moscow Mule
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
VIPER uses proprietary, AI-generated data trending and simplified follow-up techniques to drive significant improvement to gross margin.  Highly efficient (online in 12 weeks); with no capital expenditure, and minimal labor requirements.  Results are fully measurable, isolatable, and GUARANTEED; making VIPER a low-risk, high reward solution.
early stageRetail
2017
Board Member
Oct 2017
Jacksonville University is the region's premier private institution with more than 100 majors and programs from undergraduate to doctorate.
Founding Board Member
Jul 2017
In a category of its own: TendedBar is an industry-first innovative self-pour automated bar designed to significantly prevent loss and improve service to customers, all while providing a drink-ordering experience that’s faster, cleaner and more controlled. The result provides fans with less time waiting in lines, quicker access to drinks, and an overall improved experience that serves drinks in seconds, so fans don’t miss a minute. ...Perfect for any of the following: 🏟Arenas & stadiums 🎟Music festivals ⛳️Golf courses ✈️Airport terminals & lounges 🏨Convention centers 🏖Resorts & hotels 🍾Weddings & celebrations 🎰Casinos & racetracks Drive revenue & improve your guests' experience with our safe, quick, and easy-to-use system! Interested? Please DM us here or email us at: info@tendedbar.com
early stageHospitality
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