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Top highlight Media is the bedrock of democracy. It’s the way we learn about the world. It connects us. It empowers us to make stronger decisions by arming us with information. The stories we hear through the media define how we relate to the people we share our society

Applying to Matter? Here’s how we think about our accelerator investments.

Applying to Matter? Here’s how we think about our accelerator investments.

Applications are open for Matter Eight [https://news.matter.vc/join-matter-eight]. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements when making the decision about whether to invest in a startup: media, stage, mission alignment,

The Drunken Walk, S2-E8: Paul Quigley— NewsWhip

The Drunken Walk, S2-E8: Paul Quigley— NewsWhip

Paul Quigley [https://medium.com/@paulyq] is the co-founder and CEO of NewsWhip, a platform that is using science to transform the media industry. NewsWhip is bridging the gap between the ever-increasing number of internet users and seemingly infinite content to give publishers the tools to engage their audiences with

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E7: Jane Metcalfe — Co-Founder, WIRED

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E7: Jane Metcalfe — Co-Founder, WIRED

Jane Metcalfe [https://medium.com/u/5dd36bcc5d0c?source=post_page-----95f528f5628e--------------------------------] is the founder of NEO.LIFE [http://www.neo.life/], an online publication that makes sense of the neobiological revolution. Previously, she co-founded WIRED [https://www.wired.com/]. As well as WIRED Magazine, the group owned HotBot, the internet’s

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E6: Max Ventilla — CEO, AltSchool

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E6: Max Ventilla — CEO, AltSchool

Max Ventilla is the founder of AltSchool [https://www.altschool.com/], a collaboration between engineers and educators to help build the future of education. He’s also an accomplished serial entrepreneur whose journey has taken him through Aardvark, Google and beyond. In this talk recorded at Matter in San Francisco,

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E5: Lindsay Stewart & Brian McNeill — Stringr

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E5: Lindsay Stewart & Brian McNeill — Stringr

Lindsay Stewart and Brian McNeill are the co-founders of Stringr, a startup that took part in Matter’s third class. Stringr allows media organizations to connect with professional and amateur videographers in order to source great footage. In this fireside chat with Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program in New

Matter: Redefining Media Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Matter: Redefining Media Entrepreneurship

I’m grateful for having the opportunity to do my MBA summer internship at Matter, a media accelerator and investment firm that supports media entrepreneurs who are building a more empathetic, inclusive and informed society. I’ve enjoyed having the chance to work with the team and Matter’s entrepreneurs

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E3: Camille Hearst — CEO, Kit

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E3: Camille Hearst — CEO, Kit

Camille Hearst is Co-founder and CEO at Kit [https://kit.com/], a community for helping to find the best products for any new activity or experience you want to have in your life. Before founding Kit, she cut her teeth at Apple on iTunes, and then YouTube and Google. In

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E2: Raju Narisetti — CEO, Gizmodo Media Group

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E2: Raju Narisetti — CEO, Gizmodo Media Group

Our guest in this episode is Raju Narisetti, CEO of Gizmodo Media Group. Raju’s journey is inspiring: from a dairy salesman to the head of a digital media group at the heart of Univision. He speaks with Roxann Stafford [https://medium.com/u/287e0168d545?source=post_page-----e67824358a35--------------------------------] , Matter’s

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E1: Morgan DeBaun — CEO, Blavity

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E1: Morgan DeBaun — CEO, Blavity

Our guest on this episode is a remarkable entrepreneur: Morgan DeBaun [https://medium.com/u/4996c04e1559?source=post_page-----d9710ddde487--------------------------------] , CEO and co-founder of Blavity [https://blavity.com/]. Together with her co-founders, Morgan figured out how to build a media business that isn’t dependent on a conventional advertising model while

Thank you, Matter.

Entrepreneurship

Thank you, Matter.

Friday, 9.59 am. The workshop starts at 10. The office is empty but for four Matter team members nervously pacing the program area wondering where all our entrepreneurs went. A smattering of sighs, head-shakes and “ughhhh, entrepreneurs” occupy the room, while M83’s Midnight City (probably) plays in the

Breaking Beyond the World of Ideas

Breaking Beyond the World of Ideas

When charged with the task of writing my final column for The Daily Tar Heel in April, I thought about what I could say that my fellow Tar Heels would actually want to read. I thought about abstracting from the world we live in to talk about the big ideas

Meet Matter Seven

Meet Matter Seven

Top highlight This year is different. When Matter. [https://medium.com/u/5d32fb15ef39?source=post_page-----d07f02683108--------------------------------] launched in 2012, we were inspired by Clay Shirky [https://medium.com/u/dd09b2ab4ae2?source=post_page-----d07f02683108--------------------------------] ’s words on the rapidly-changing newspaper market [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/]: “now is

Establishing Diverse Media For Our Diverse World

Establishing Diverse Media For Our Diverse World

Depending on one’s personal experiences, level of exposure to new ideas, and willingness to engage with challenging information, The Establishment’s mission may appear superfluous — or it may instantly register as burningly critical and centuries overdue. We, of course, fall into the latter camp. Unlike Google or Facebook, we

Rewire: software against fascism

Rewire: software against fascism

“That one. Austin. Get him!” It was the Spring of 2012. Occupy Wall Street had captured the world’s attention, and months after our eviction from Zuccotti Park, daily marches were still shaking the streets of New York City’s Financial District. I’d left my job to get involved

The Path to Purple

The Path to Purple

Top highlight One summer afternoon in the mailroom of a U.S. Senator I started a Tumblr blog called Purple Politics. I was still in college and had achieved full political-nerd status with my friends, who would use me as their news source in lieu of reading the news themselves.

CivNet — Community in Action

CivNet — Community in Action

They say politics is personal. As a junior in high school, I was asked to debate the Iraq War. Specifically, I was tasked with arguing that the Iraq War was justified. At that point, public opinion was overwhelmingly against the war. WMD’s had not been found, and we were

Multimer: Better Decisions Based on Human Signals

Multimer: Better Decisions Based on Human Signals

Think of where you were fourteen years ago. A lot has changed, right? Technology has changed. Information flow has changed. The way we relate to and understand each other has, in many significant ways, changed. Fourteen years ago, people used Discmans. Much has changed!Fourteen years ago, my co-founder Ilias

How Do You Inspire Generations — Kids — To Build Their Best Future?

How Do You Inspire Generations — Kids — To Build Their Best Future?

We started SmartFeed [http://www.thesmartfeeed.com]to flip the device dialogue with our kids from mostly “No’s” to lots of “Yes’s”!If we want better stories — better media — to inspire, teach and shape our kids, we need to funnel our spending on “better stories” — so more of

The Information You Need, When You Need It.

The Information You Need, When You Need It.

In 2009, the U.S. federal government’s open data portal, Data.gov, launched with 47 open data sets. Today, there are over 194,000 [https://www.data.gov/]. And it’s increasingly the anomaly for a city or state not to have its own similar open data portal. Meanwhile,

Join Matter. as a Program Coordinator — Help change media for good!

Join Matter. as a Program Coordinator — Help change media for good!

Matter Ventures is about to open our garage door to our seventh accelerator class. You have an opportunity to join them on this journey.