Matt has been working with growth-stage software and technology businesses his whole career and has had the privilege of working with over 30 growth-stage business software companies over the last 15+ years. Prior to co-founding PeakSpan, Matt worked at Greycroft Partners on the growth-stage investment team. Prior to Greycroft, he worked at Investor Growth Capital on the B2B software investment team, where he met Phil, and they began refining the investment strategy, approach, and philosophy that underpin PeakSpan today. He started his career in investment banking as a member of the Technology, Media, and Telecom group at Piper Jaffray. Matt was named to Crain’s New York Business’ 40 Under 40 List in 2022 and GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors List in 2024 and 2025. Matt graduated cum laude from Georgetown University, where he majored in Finance.

He has been snowboarding all his life and is an avid traveler, journeying to over 30 countries with his wife, Ratavy. But these days, you're more likely to find them on the Upper West Side than on a plane, where they live with their two daughters, Luna and Leyla, and their furry son, Enzo the mini golden retriever, who doubles as the girls’ bodyguard and best friend. Matt grew up just south of Boston and remains a die-hard Boston sports fan despite facing the constant, character-building struggle of living behind enemy lines as a New York City resident.

Working with people who are truly passionate about what they do is infectious—getting the chance to work with passionate, ambitious, committed entrepreneurs, advisors, and team members gives me immense energy and enthusiasm each and every day.

I was on the phone with Ford Blakely, CEO/Founder of Zingle, and we were talking through a marketing-related model which sensitized spend, channels, and associated return, and it was a difficult conversation to have in an impactful way virtually. As such, I told Ford I would hop on a red-eye and fly to San Diego that night, and we would work through everything in person tomorrow. I did just that, and it was an incredibly productive session. Ford was appreciative, but it was an easy thing to do—because I fed off Ford's passion and energy for building a great business and wanting to make the right strategic decision, so I reciprocated that energy, and the result was powerful.

I firmly believe that the hardest thing to get right in growth company development is transitioning from founder-led sales or one to two rockstar sellers to a consistent, predictable, productive GTM machine buoyed by distributed performance across the team of sellers. Hiring a renaissance man or woman early on who can think on their feet and navigate a complex engagement on the fly without any enablement materials or process infrastructure can get you to $5M of ARR, but you will not scale to $50M+ without a repeatable, high-performing GTM engine. It is incredibly hard to build and optimize, but arguably the most important thing in growth company development.

PeakSpan's culture is the amalgamation of the experience of every single member of the team and our extended community. We have deliberately architected the firm—how we work internally and how we engage externally—to be juxtaposed to the status quo. The learnings from every positive and negative experience I have had in my career working at other organizations and engaging with entrepreneurs have been woven into the cultural fabric of PeakSpan, and every single member of the team's collective learnings forms the PeakSpan ethos. Integrity, humility, respect, and impact—these are core values that underpin everything we do and how we carry ourselves, no matter the situation or setting.

Coming from an investment banking background, you realize quickly that there is a ton of low-yield work that gets done in that environment: research that is never used, pitch decks that are never opened, analyses that are not leveraged to make a decision. One of the core principles we have been focused on at PeakSpan since day one is that every single thing anyone works on at the firm has to drive impact and value. We don't do anything that is low-yield—this makes the work more self-actualizing and ensures that everything we engage in will deliver value. We are maniacally focused on technology enabling our approach and wrapping process and workflows around everything we do to further drive efficiency without sacrificing quality. These things ensure that we are working as intelligently as we can to drive the highest possible impact in the most efficient way possible.

I want every founder I work with to say that Matt and PeakSpan were the hardest-working folks around the table and drove the most significant impact for our business. I firmly believe that we need to earn our seat at the table every single day, and I am laser-focused on doing just that in every interaction I have with an entrepreneur or company I work with.