Matt Burton (博明诚)

Working on newcos. Former VC (QED Investors) and operator with exits to Google (Admeld), Facebook (LiveRail) and Kabbage / Amex (Orchard Platform). I love working with early stage start ups

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
15
Total investments
9
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1
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2
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Feb 2023
A dedicated technology platform developed specifically for GovCons, GovForce centralizes critical records, facilitates collaboration across teams, and allows GovCons to securely manage deliverables with other GovCons. Govcons should never miss on a flowdown, can organize their teaming partners, and will win without email. Easy to subscribe to, learn, and operate, GovForce is state-of-the-art Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with only the highest levels of data privacy and security. Critical GovCon back office providers like accountants, attorneys, insurers, and others can save time and money to better serve their own GovCons. Built by a team of high tech and military veterans and headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Board Member
Aug 2022
Cedar is a financial solutions platform that provides businesses a seamless, speedy and secure transaction to their vendors/suppliers overseas. We are on a journey to transforming your business’s global transactions into seamless local experiences.
Board Member
Aug 2022
Currently working on something new and very exciting
Board Member
Nov 2021
Shakepay is the easiest way for Canadians to buy and earn bitcoin and pay their friends. Launched in 2015, Shakepay gives Canadians the power to achieve financial freedom with the soundest money to ever exist: bitcoin. By accelerating its widespread adoption, our mission is to help usher in the Bitcoin Golden Age.
Board Advisor and Investor
May 2021
Spaceback is the global leader and creator of the Social Display and Social CTV advertising format. Their creative technology platform bridges the gap between social and banner or TV advertising, allowing advertisers to combine the user experience of social media with the reach of traditional online display or CTV. By using the Spaceback creative format Brands can use content they know is effective from their social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Pinterest, Linkedin & TikTok), and share it with their target audiences across Programmatic and Direct display advertising channels. The firm maintains offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and previously received funding from MathCapital, FreakOut, Gambit Ventures. More information about Spaceback can be found by visiting https://www.spaceback.com.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Capchase is the modern vendor financing platform built for B2B software, cloud, and hardware companies. Our solution helps businesses offer flexible payment terms to their customers while getting paid upfront on every deal. By embedding financing into the sales process, Capchase helps vendors close more deals, increase contract value, and access their booked revenue immediately—without balance sheet risk or added debt. And doing so in an intuitive platform that matches the speed and needs of modern sales and finance teams. Since 2020, Capchase has powered over $2.5 billion in financing for thousands of high-growth companies worldwide, backed by leading fintech investors. We are redefining how B2B vendors accelerate revenue and manage working capital. Learn more: www.capchase.com Available in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Spain, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, and Sweden.
Board Member
Jan 2021
The modern consumer needs to assemble a patchwork of siloed solutions to navigate their financial life. Insurance is often the most disconnected. Trellis is a fully remote insurtech start-up that builds industry-leading solutions that make insurance easy for everyone, from consumers to partners to insurers. We help financial institutions, fintechs, and other innovative companies to engage users across a broader set of financial needs and goals while diversifying revenue through embedded insurance. Some of our partners include Rocket Money (formerly Truebill), Acorns, and Albert, among dozens of other innovative companies. We help insurers reach more of their target customers by utilizing cost-effective embedded insurance distribution channels in the leading apps and websites that consumers are already using. We meet the consumers where they are and help them find the right personal insurance that meets their needs. Our products simplify insurance by: - Enabling consumers to easily link their existing insurance account information using just their username and password - Providing more comprehensive and up-to-date consumer information than traditional prefill solutions while keeping consumer data safe and private - Equipping our partners with a best-in-class insurance marketplace, with 150+ insurers, “apples-to-apples” coverage comparison, and online binding available today - Complementing the digital experience with real human guidance from nationally-licensed insurance agents - Offering a flexible implementation approach from simple white-labeled landing pages to robust API integrations Trellis is backed by multiple top venture capital investors, including QED (Credit Karma, SoFi), General Catalyst (Airbnb, Stripe), Nyca (Acorns, Revolut), as well as Amex Ventures.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Bitso is Latin America’s leading Financial Services company powered by crypto. With millions of clients, we are leading the financial revolution with borderless, secure, transparent, and accessible financial products. With the mission to unlock the power of borderless, secure, and easy-to-use financial products by making crypto useful, we are committed to empowering the region with universal access to the digital economy of the future and enabling a fairer monetary system.
Board Member
Oct 2020
Unlocking the full potential of ambitious businesses worldwide with $5k-$20m of purpose-built working capital. Todays fast-growing businesses need a capital provider that keeps pace with their ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome, and often out of reach. Thats why we built Wayflyer. Our unique technology can assess your growth potential to deliver tailored financing options in minutes, not months. Since launching in April 2020, weve deployed over $6 billion to 6,000+ businesses globally, backed by leading investors like QED, Left Lane Capital and DST Global. Were a fast-growing, venture-backed startup with big ambitions. From our offices in Dublin, London, Berlin, New York, Charlotte and Sydney, were serving consumer brands, retail outlets, software companies, service providers and beyond.
Board Member
May 2020
Milo is a financial technology company that is reimagining the way global consumers access mortgage credit and financial solutions in a borderless world. We are passionate about driving transformation of financial services, solving real problems, and making a meaningful impact in people’s lives. At Milo, we are building amazing digital solutions and rethinking what’s possible. Milo has built the leading home credit solution for global consumers. By building our technology stack from the ground up and bringing on a world class team, we have already lent out millions of dollars to amazing consumers. Milo is able to close loans in days and not in months. We are looking for new team members that get excited about creating, designing and implementing new solutions for global consumers. Our team is looking for passionate individuals to join our product, design, operations and marketing teams.
Board Member
Apr 2020
Fairplay surge con el propósito de fomentar el desarrollo de las pequeñas y medianas empresas dentro del sector retail, ofreciendo financiamiento respaldado por tecnología. Estamos firmemente convencidos de que para impulsar el crecimiento en Latinoamérica, las empresas necesitan acceso a capital con condiciones financieras más favorables, las cuales no siempre son proporcionadas por las instituciones bancarias tradicionales. Nuestro objetivo es facilitar el aumento en las ventas de los negocios mediante una solución financiera que se fundamenta en la inteligencia de datos. Realizamos un análisis detallado de cada negocio para comprender su comportamiento de ventas y, gracias a nuestra experiencia en la industria, diseñamos una solución financiera que se adapta al ritmo del negocio, fomentando así su crecimiento. Esto les permite a nuestros clientes invertir en marketing, ampliar su inventario y mejorar su logística. Después de analizar a miles de empresas, hemos adquirido una amplia experiencia que nos permite comprender las necesidades, los desafíos y los logros en el sector minorista. Hoy en día, traducimos todo ese conocimiento en valor tangible para nuestros clientes.
Board Member
Oct 2019
Helping Americans 50+ take control of their data.
Board Member
Sep 2019
Rain is the leading financial health platform tackling the $1.9 trillion problem of employee disengagement caused by financial stress. We help employees move from paycheck-to-paycheck to financial resilience through responsible earned wage access, budgeting tools, spending analysis, and wealth-building features. We have already paid out $3 billion in earned wages to 3.5 million employees across 1,200 employers—including McDonalds, T-Mobile, Cava, and Marriott—cutting turnover, improving attendance, and strengthening workforce financial health.
Board Member
Apr 2019
minu, la plataforma líder en retención de talento. Pioneros en el Salario On-demand en México. Mejora hasta un 20% la retención de talento en tu empresa, con nuestra plataforma todo-en-uno que incluye nuestros +45 beneficios. Juntos mejoremos el bienestar financiero, físico y mental de los trabajadores de México.
Board Member
Oct 2018
FastPay reduces friction for buyers and sellers across the media landscape. We empower advertisers, agencies, suppliers, and technology companies with smarter payments covering the entire media ecosystem and intelligent back-office workflows that improve efficiency and reduce cost. We deliver proven results because of our media industry expertise, proprietary data & technology, and vast capital resources. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York and Boston, FastPay has originated over $6 billion in transaction volume since inception.
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2025
Partner
Jan 2025
We help build the next generation of companies.
2023
Board Member
Feb 2023
A dedicated technology platform developed specifically for GovCons, GovForce centralizes critical records, facilitates collaboration across teams, and allows GovCons to securely manage deliverables with other GovCons. Govcons should never miss on a flowdown, can organize their teaming partners, and will win without email. Easy to subscribe to, learn, and operate, GovForce is state-of-the-art Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with only the highest levels of data privacy and security. Critical GovCon back office providers like accountants, attorneys, insurers, and others can save time and money to better serve their own GovCons. Built by a team of high tech and military veterans and headquartered in Washington, D.C.
2022
Board Member
Aug 2022
Cedar is a financial solutions platform that provides businesses a seamless, speedy and secure transaction to their vendors/suppliers overseas. We are on a journey to transforming your business’s global transactions into seamless local experiences.
Board Member
Aug 2022
Currently working on something new and very exciting
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
Shakepay is the easiest way for Canadians to buy and earn bitcoin and pay their friends. Launched in 2015, Shakepay gives Canadians the power to achieve financial freedom with the soundest money to ever exist: bitcoin. By accelerating its widespread adoption, our mission is to help usher in the Bitcoin Golden Age.
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