Matt Smith

Principal at Kickstart | Seed Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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Sep 2025
The AI Spreadsheet. Built for modern data analysis in a familiar spreadsheet interface. Connect data, prompt, transform, analyze, visualize, and share results. Seamlessly pull data from various sources (Databases, CSVs, APIs, or wherever else your data lives) and analyze it with Python, SQL, JavaScript, and spreadsheet formulas.
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Jun 2025
Nitric is a cloud-aware framework that enhances productivity, uniting backend and infrastructure code to build and ship cloud applications fast. We’ve taken a unique approach to self-service infrastructure with self-provisioning, which significantly boosts developer productivity and elevates their overall experience. Nitric also takes a cloud-agnostic approach, maintaining consistency across various cloud platforms, which is crucial to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure redundancy. This platform abstraction can empower organizations to adapt your application architectures without disrupting developer focus on innovation and your competitive edge. We’re excited about the latest features we’ve added to our open source project (especially our local dev dashboard and custom provider support) and the teams we’re working with to help them deliver cloud application value to market faster. Reach out to the Nitric team to learn more! We’d love to connect and share experiences around any topic, including cloud development, platform abstraction, developer productivity, and multi-cloud development. Explore Nitric at https://nitric.io
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Apr 2025
Drug discovery just got a modern upgrade. Pluto is the collaborative, AI-powered solution empowering scientific teams to do target and biomarker discovery, faster than ever before. Build your biomarker and target lists, track status, priority, and evidence in powerful reports. Visualize and analyze multi-omics data sets with no coding required, and create compelling figures for high-impact presentations. Integrate the wealth of knowledge from published literature and data sets to gain a competitive advantage and derisk projects earlier for better results.
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Mar 2025
In today’s fast-moving space economy, access to orbit is limited by long wait times, complex systems, and unpredictable logistics. LEAP is changing that. We’re transforming space transportation with a new generation of rapid-response, mass-producible launch solutions built for speed, simplicity, and reliability. Using proprietary propulsion and modern manufacturing, LEAP delivers on-demand launch for national security, commercial payloads, and even point-to-point space logistics enabling global delivery in under 45 minutes. Our mission: eliminate bottlenecks and deliver scalable, cost-effective access to space when and where its needed. LEAP is built on three pillars: simplicity, responsiveness, and mass production. Our streamlined system reduces complexity and ensures reliability. We support time-sensitive missions, from defense to hypersonic testing and microgravity research, with repeatable, affordable launches. From national security to commercial innovation, LEAP is redefining how, and how fast, we reach space. The future of responsive space logistics is here, and it moves at the speed of LEAP.
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Nov 2024
Chargezoom is an AI-native AR platform embedded directly in your ERP that autonomously manages invoicing, payments, collections, and reconciliation. It gives you real-time cash flow clarity, eliminates manual accounting tasks, and accelerates liquidity—so your finance team operates with greater accuracy, speed, and scalability without adding headcount.
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Oct 2024
HappyDoc is an AI Assistant for Veterinarians. We help veterinarians write their medical records from natural conversation. Have HappyDoc listen to an exam, and it will filter out the conversation, retrieve only the relevant medical info, and output a structured SOAP note. Our fully customizable AI supports any text-based documents such as SOAP, Client Callback Summaries, Report Cards, Dental Charting, or anything you can imagine. Integrates with Cornerstone, Avimark, Impromed, Vetspire, Pulse, ezyVet, and others.
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Aug 2024
The all-in-one platform for building better bank payments - with open banking, identity verification, and account-to-account money movement in a single API
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Jan 2024
Built on the foundation of in-store spatial AI, Venvee provides Audience Enrichment and Audience Measurement for Retail Media Networks. Venvees technology produces an end-to-end understanding of in-store shopper journeys unlike anything the retail industry has seen before. Our CAPEX-free solution pioneers the latest advances in spatial deep learning to produce precise shopper pathing and action insights using only a retailer’s existing security cameras. The result is a continuous, uninterrupted story about a shopper’s complete in-store journey from entry to exit, inclusive of precise moment-to-moment location, impressions, interactions, and conversions for in-store products, features, and advertisements. This rich, biometrics-free dataset is used by retailers to produce new high-margin revenue streams from in-store traffic by precisely targeting shoppers using loyalty data + in-store intent resulting in more meaningful shopper engagement.
Board Observer
Dec 2023
Cinch is a marketing automation platform—built on an enterprise-level customer data platform. Why does that matter? Because the success of your marketing communication rests on the power of your customer database. If you have outdated or duplicated contacts slowing down your system, it shows in your marketing performance. Built from the ground up to support multi-location businesses, Cinch specializes in local business marketing and data science. With a strong focus on customer retention, Cinch keeps your customers engaged throughout the buying process with robust automated journeys. Choose from a library of industry-specific templates or create a custom masterpiece. Headquartered in Draper, Utah, Cinch also offers lighter versions of its software for small-business leaders ready to boost revenue growth via customer retention strategies.
Board Member
Nov 2023
CareCar is health services and technology platform offering payers a path to offering better supplemental benefits to their members. The company currently focuses on in-home care & non-emergent medical transport benefits, and related services.
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Jul 2022
OpenGTM synthesizes GTM data to produce a more comprehensive view of your customers, predict revenue and customer fit with greater accuracy, and empower GTM teams to win smarter—together.
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May 2022
Hallo offers AI agents for global hiring that evaluate candidates’ soft skills, hard skills, and language proficiency in over 60 languages through 200+ AI-powered interviews, along with additional assessments such as simulations, role-plays, and cognitive tests. Choose an avatar and let Hallo handle interviews on your behalf. Our fully customizable AI interviews and assessments adapt seamlessly to your company’s culture and core values, making it simple to design tailored experiences for any role from customer service to sales to engineering. Automate your hiring process and deliver a seamless, consistent candidate experience that feels like a real conversation with your team.
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2025
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Sep 2025
The AI Spreadsheet. Built for modern data analysis in a familiar spreadsheet interface. Connect data, prompt, transform, analyze, visualize, and share results. Seamlessly pull data from various sources (Databases, CSVs, APIs, or wherever else your data lives) and analyze it with Python, SQL, JavaScript, and spreadsheet formulas.
Investor
Jun 2025
Nitric is a cloud-aware framework that enhances productivity, uniting backend and infrastructure code to build and ship cloud applications fast. We’ve taken a unique approach to self-service infrastructure with self-provisioning, which significantly boosts developer productivity and elevates their overall experience. Nitric also takes a cloud-agnostic approach, maintaining consistency across various cloud platforms, which is crucial to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure redundancy. This platform abstraction can empower organizations to adapt your application architectures without disrupting developer focus on innovation and your competitive edge. We’re excited about the latest features we’ve added to our open source project (especially our local dev dashboard and custom provider support) and the teams we’re working with to help them deliver cloud application value to market faster. Reach out to the Nitric team to learn more! We’d love to connect and share experiences around any topic, including cloud development, platform abstraction, developer productivity, and multi-cloud development. Explore Nitric at https://nitric.io
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Apr 2025
Drug discovery just got a modern upgrade. Pluto is the collaborative, AI-powered solution empowering scientific teams to do target and biomarker discovery, faster than ever before. Build your biomarker and target lists, track status, priority, and evidence in powerful reports. Visualize and analyze multi-omics data sets with no coding required, and create compelling figures for high-impact presentations. Integrate the wealth of knowledge from published literature and data sets to gain a competitive advantage and derisk projects earlier for better results.
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Mar 2025
In today’s fast-moving space economy, access to orbit is limited by long wait times, complex systems, and unpredictable logistics. LEAP is changing that. We’re transforming space transportation with a new generation of rapid-response, mass-producible launch solutions built for speed, simplicity, and reliability. Using proprietary propulsion and modern manufacturing, LEAP delivers on-demand launch for national security, commercial payloads, and even point-to-point space logistics enabling global delivery in under 45 minutes. Our mission: eliminate bottlenecks and deliver scalable, cost-effective access to space when and where its needed. LEAP is built on three pillars: simplicity, responsiveness, and mass production. Our streamlined system reduces complexity and ensures reliability. We support time-sensitive missions, from defense to hypersonic testing and microgravity research, with repeatable, affordable launches. From national security to commercial innovation, LEAP is redefining how, and how fast, we reach space. The future of responsive space logistics is here, and it moves at the speed of LEAP.
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Nov 2024
Chargezoom is an AI-native AR platform embedded directly in your ERP that autonomously manages invoicing, payments, collections, and reconciliation. It gives you real-time cash flow clarity, eliminates manual accounting tasks, and accelerates liquidity—so your finance team operates with greater accuracy, speed, and scalability without adding headcount.
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