Stella Garber

Angel Investor

Hoop aggregates everything you have to do across all your tools- automatically. Now, you can focus on doing the most important work vs busywork. We imagine a world where technology helps humans aspire and achieve greatness instead of shackling us with distractions, context switching, and notification overload. Sounds good, right?

OpenView is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the way the world works. OpenView invests globally in business software companies at the expansion stage – where companies have found early product-market fit and are ready to scale. Pre- and post-investment, OpenView’s Expansion team has the operational expertise to work with companies on sales, marketing, product-led growth, pricing, talent, corporate development and other initiatives. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Boston with a presence in New York City and Los Angeles, OpenView has $2.4B in total assets under management and is actively investing out of its seventh fund, a $570M vehicle raised in 2023.

Angel Investor

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

Matchist is a team of operators, entrepreneurs, analysts, designers, developers, strategists, sales executives and doers that know how to launch and build companies. Most importantly, we know how to get your idea from something in your head to something real. We care passionately about helping people get their ideas off the ground.