Recent news from our
‍portfolio and fund

Green Project Technologies announced the acquisition of Optera a Matchstick Fund II company. Together they form the industry's leading AI climate management platform, uniting Optera's decade of enterprise carbon management with Green Project's category-leading supply chain engagement and renewable energy procurement infrastructure. The unified solution is a true end-to-end platform for companies of any size, geography, or climate maturity, with AI at the core.

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We are hiring for a Investment Analyst who will be responsible for sourcing, researching, and building relationships with the ambitious founders we back across our core markets between the coasts. This relationship-driven role will strengthen and expand the top of Matchstick's funnel, helping us find and connect with exceptional founders earlier and more often than anyone else. This role requires forming genuine relationships across our ecosystem, sharpening investment judgment through hands-on analysis, and experimenting with new AI tooling to make how we source and work smarter.

Sound like something you or someone you know would like to tackle? If so, check out our Investment Analyst Job Posting.

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Inspectorio, a production-chain management platform from Matchstick Fund I,  announced a growth investment from the Apax Digital Funds, the growth equity arm of Apax. Congrats to the entire team!

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The Matchstick team can't wait to be the first customers at Maggie's! Congrats on the first location!

Warmly has been acquired by HubSpot! We are proud to have been a part of the Warmly company journey.

Dalton Mills has raised $9.2M to help the trades build software that works the way they do.

For too long, contractors and skilled trades have had to adapt their businesses to rigid, one-size-fits-all software. Dalton Mills is turning that model on its head—enabling companies to create bespoke, AI-powered workflows without writing code.

As software evolves from systems of record to systems that do the work, Dalton Mills is helping bring the next era to one of the most important sectors of our economy.

Congratulations to the Dalton Mills team on the raise and on the mission to let the builders build.

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We are thrilled to announce our participation in Dalton Mill's launch! 

Catch Natty Zola on the VC Sheet podcast where he breaks down his thoughts on Founder and VC dynamics, fundraising, early stage hiring and more! 

A huge congrats to the Two Boxes team who raised a $3.2M round, bringing their total funding to $13M as capital-efficient platform scales to $1B in inventory value processed across three continents.

Congrats to the CometChat team on this next raise.

We are excited to announce our investment in Great Sky! The team spent a decade developing a superconducting optoelectronic network, or SOEN, which uses light to communicate data, while GPUs use electrons. This chip can process videos more than 1 million times faster than conventional models running on standard GPUs, with less energy.

We are thrilled with the opportunites that are made possible with Orijin's acquisition of Honest Jobs.

The acquisition unites Orijin’s education, rehabilitation, and workforce preparation platform with Honest Jobs’ national employer network and reentry technology, creating the only comprehensive end-to-end pathway connecting incarceration to meaningful employment.

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We are thrilled to announce our investment in Automate.clinic who builds clinical teams from their physician network, steeped in AI training, who handle post-training refinement and evals—using their medical expertise to systematically improve model accuracy.

We are excited to announce our investment in Saile, who raised $2.2M in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Matchstick Ventures to address structural
gaps in healthcare staffing and credentialing. The company is simultaneously coming out of stealth with more than 5,000 physicians on the
platform and a growing roster of healthcare facility partners across telemedicine, per diem, locums,
consulting, and ambulatory centers.

We are excited to share that Branch, the workforce payments platform, and Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), the operator behind Union Square Cafe and The Modern, are both redesigning the financial touchpoints that shape everyday life.