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Sharing Our Demo Day

Demo Day is the culmination of every Matter program. Matter Seven was no different. On two coasts, all 12 of the teams making up our current cohort pitched their hearts out, told their stories, and shared a collective vision of a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society. Fortunately, for anyone

Matter 2017: The Year of the Rebelpreneur, Realized.

Matter 2017: The Year of the Rebelpreneur, Realized.

From the very start, Matter has been guided by a mission bigger than any one of us as individuals: Change Media for Good, supporting early stage media entrepreneurs and established media institutions who are helping to create a more informed, empathetic, and inclusive society. This year, we learned what it

New realities are new opportunities

Augmented Reality

New realities are new opportunities

At Matter. [https://medium.com/u/5d32fb15ef39?source=post_page-----97e2ed4ee223--------------------------------] , our mission [http://matter.vc] is to help create a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society by investing in the next generation of media institutions. That means investing in products that establish new kinds of media habits [https://news.matter.

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E11: Christie George—New Media Ventures

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E11: Christie George—New Media Ventures

Christie George [https://medium.com/@christiegeorge] is the Executive Director at New Media Ventures [http://www.newmediaventures.org/], a seed fund and network of angel investors that supports media entrepreneurs who are working to create a more progressive society. Christie sat down with our San Francisco Director of Investments, Ben

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E9: Jeanne Brooks — Virago Futures

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E9: Jeanne Brooks — Virago Futures

Jeanne Brooks [https://medium.com/@jmfbrooks] is the founder and CEO of Virago Futures [https://www.viragofutures.com/welcome], a venture that uses community design to rethink and rebuild media systems. In a world that is more connected than ever, Virago Futures brings people of all genders, races, and abilities

Join Matter Eight

Join Matter Eight

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

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-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

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

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.

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 Drunken Walk, S1-E5: Jessica Lessin— Founder, The Information

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E5: Jessica Lessin— Founder, The Information

Our guest on this episode is an incredible example of a journalist turned media entrepreneur: Jessica Lessin [https://medium.com/u/e8174f04826d?source=post_page-----1fdf39c4fe9b--------------------------------] , former Wall Street Journal reporter, now at the helm of the in-depth business/technology subscription publication, The Information. [https://www.theinformation.com/] Before she founded

Rules for Rebelpreneurs

Venture Capital

Rules for Rebelpreneurs

Top highlight Journalists are under threat in our country — people don’t trust the news, fake publications and “alternative facts” make it an increasingly burdensome task to identify the truth, and multiple figures in the White House, including the president, have declared the media to be the “Enemy of the

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E4: Melissa Bell — Publisher, Vox Media

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E4: Melissa Bell — Publisher, Vox Media

We’re back with another incredible media entrepreneur whose story of scrappiness and tenacity shows that, with the right mindset, anything is possible. Melissa Bell [https://medium.com/u/d1c979c350ff?source=post_page-----181069750139--------------------------------] is one of the co-founders of Vox.com [http://vox.com], Vox Media’s news and opinion

Beyond targeted advertising

Beyond targeted advertising

Advertising is in crisis. More than one third of online ad traffic is fraudulent [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304026304579453253860786362], and the ads are so annoying that more than a quarter of users block them [https://www.iab.com/insights/ad-blocking-blocks-ads-win-back/]. Half of ads are never seen [https://www.comscore.

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E3: Chloe Sladden— Founding Partner, #Angels

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E3: Chloe Sladden— Founding Partner, #Angels

Welcome to the next installment of our 6-part podcast series sharing the personal stories that illustrate the tumultuous journey of the media entrepreneur. Our guest this week, Chloe Sladden [https://medium.com/u/1a5c33c573a0?source=post_page-----8740853d3ea7--------------------------------] , has worked as an assistant to a literary agent, a management consultant in

Why Misinfocon gives me hope

Why Misinfocon gives me hope

Let’s start with this: if you don’t know what Misinfocon is or what it’s all about, you should [https://news.matter.vc/misinfocon/misinfocon-a-summit-on-misinformation-feb-24-26-at-mit-media-lab-the-nieman-foundation-for] . The summit, which took place the last weekend of February at the MIT Media Lab, brought together 200 thought leaders tackling misinformation who

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E2: Peter Koechley— Co-founder, Upworthy

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E2: Peter Koechley— Co-founder, Upworthy

We’re excited to have you along for the next episode in our The Drunken Walk [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-walk/id1213605129] podcast series. This time our guest is Peter Koechley, the co-founder and co-CEO of Upworthy. You know how that hockey stick curve, up and to the

Securing free speech

Securing free speech

This year, Matter. [https://medium.com/u/5d32fb15ef39?source=post_page-----c117eebf0b48--------------------------------] is hoping to invest in teams working on easy-to-use secure communications. It’s a new area for us, but online security and freedom from surveillance have never been more important, both for media and society. Freedom from surveillance means

In search of human entrepreneurs

In search of human entrepreneurs

Top highlight The myth of the Great Jerk rules over Silicon Valley. Since Steve Jobs ran roughshod over friends, colleagues, and enemies alike, and he was an incredible success, many in the tech world feel it is acceptable and even expected for startup founders to behave in similarly tyrannical fashion.

Matter invests in NewsWhip’s $6.4M Series A

Matter invests in NewsWhip’s $6.4M Series A

Andrew Mullaney (CTO) and Paul Quigley (CEO) co-founded NewsWhip six years ago. Mullaney spent six months as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Matter’s San Francisco office.We’re pleased to announce that Matter is making a follow-on investment in the trending stories platform, NewsWhip [http://newswhip.com]. The Dublin, Ireland-based company