Matt Walters
Partner at Mission Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Walters is a venture investor and operator with 13 years of experience building and scaling startups from product-market fit to corporate carve-outs and M&A. As Partner at Mission Ventures and former Head of Corporate Development at Eve Air Mobility, he blends early-stage deal instinct with hands-on corporate strategy in aerospace and mobility. His background leading Silicon Valley innovation for Embraer and co-founding an NLP startup (acquired) gives him a rare mix of product, technical appreciation, and commercial rigor. Early roles in international social enterprise and nonprofit finance show a long-standing appetite for mission-driven, scalable models. Based in San Francisco and Wharton-trained, he mentors accelerators and founders across industries, often helping teams translate technical roadmaps into investor-ready businesses. He’s known for the pragmatic mantra “build products people love,” which informs both his investing and operator approach.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Philosophy, A.B. Philosophy at Princeton UniversityMBA Candidate Strategic Management, MBA Candidate Strategic Management at The Wharton School
English, Thai, Spanish, French
Github Skills (43)
editors10
rich-text10
browser10
stacktrace10
error-handler9
editor9
text-editor9
javascript9
bounce9
rte9
contenteditable9
draft-js9
sdk9
slate9
wysiwyg9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mattwalters/nantucket
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:27 commits in 24 days
perfect-venue/task-and-purpose
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:15 reviews, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
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