Nathan Maton is a Managing Director in the Bay Area raising Basal Capital’s debut fund to back repeat founders at pre-seed, combining 12 years of product, data, and community experience. He co-founded a high-growth NFT company with over $300M in secondary sales, bringing operator insight into marketplace dynamics and token-driven communities. Previously a data scientist at Omada Health, Nathan built experiment evaluation pipelines and predictive models for patient outcomes, blending rigorous analytics with product intuition. His early roles at Google, Khan Academy, and IDEO sharpened his community-building and product leadership across mission-driven organizations. An active contributor to open-source front-end work (notably Habitica’s UI), he retains hands-on development chops alongside strategic investing. He also studies organizational development and climate action, reflecting a long-term focus on systems-level impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Climate Change Learning For Action, Climate Change Learning For Action at Terra.do
Master of Science - Organizational Development, Master of Science - Organizational Development at Pepperdine University
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at NYU Gallatin
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Habitica application. Their work included updates to CSS for UI elements, resolving merge conflicts in CSS files, and modifications to Jade templates to update front-end display elements. Furthermore, they made changes to JavaScript files, particularly focusing on content translation and data display logic. The user demonstrated involvement in both UI and potentially some basic back-end content adjustments.
Contributions:24 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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