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Matter startup Huzza is acquired by Kickstarter

Matter startup Huzza is acquired by Kickstarter

Justin Womersley and Nick Smit of Huzza built and launched Kickstarter Live, a livestreaming feature based on HuzzaHuzza, the livestreaming platform for musicians and artists that was accelerated as part of our Matter Five cohort, has been acquired by the global crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter. Last year co-founders Justin Womersley and

“You’re borrowing time now to get more time later.”

“You’re borrowing time now to get more time later.”

Top highlight Danielle Morrill practices radical candor. “I got into Y-Combinator as a solo female founder, probably with the only launched product that had revenue. So I was like feeling like a bada** motherf*****. But then it turned out that [referrals] is a terrible business.” She closed down her YC-backed

Where Will Matter 6 Be in 2020?

Artificial Intelligence

Where Will Matter 6 Be in 2020?

Scout’s Head of Product, Brett [https://medium.com/u/bdedace6a5a3?source=post_page-----beede64f4a3d--------------------------------] Horvath, and I have had the great pleasure of spending the last four months working side-by-side with eleven other incredible companies as a part of Matter. [https://medium.com/u/5d32fb15ef39?source=post_page-----beede64f4a3d--------------------------------] We’ve

2016: the year of “we did it”.

2016: the year of “we did it”.

Our plucky entrepreneurs go through “the garage door” on their first day of Bootcamp, and of the Matter Six program, in San Francisco (June 13th, 2016)Every year of Matter’s history has ushered in landmark achievements, but 2016 has had more firsts than most. As the entrepreneurs of our

On being bicoastal.

Entrepreneurship

On being bicoastal.

Expanding from San Francisco to New York City has always been on Matter’s roadmap. Ever since our first class in 2012, Matter One, we’ve held Demo Days on both coasts, seeking to unite the capital of innovation with the capital of media. In February of this year we

“We ended up launching Vox in 9 weeks.”

“We ended up launching Vox in 9 weeks.”

“I’m so proud of Vox.com [http://vox.com],” says Melissa Bell, welling up slightly. “They’re just so talented and they’re doing such incredible work and it’s so different from what we pictured it to be in so many different ways.” Bell helped co-found the news

Build Matter NYC + SF with us.

Build Matter NYC + SF with us.

Update: Thanks for your interest! These roles have now been filled. In the last six months we have expanded Matter [http://matter.vc/] from SF to NYC and we are on the verge of completing our first ever bicoastal accelerator program. Now, we are growing our Program and Investments team

Listen up! Hearken’s got something to say

Listen up! Hearken’s got something to say

SO MUCH GOOD STUFF that I almost don’t know where to start. Good thing, then, that we’re going to hear all about it from chief awesome lady boss herself, Jennifer Brandel. Jenn and co-founder Corey Haines went through our program more than a year ago, as part of

Taking stock, and a look ahead.

Taking stock, and a look ahead.

It’s the end of a jam-packed year at Matter, a year that will see twelve companies complete two twenty-week accelerator programs back-to-back. That pace is pretty mind-boggling to me, Matter’s greenhorn storyteller, newly onboarded. Since I joined ten days ago, I’ve learned a stack about what this

Change is getting Louder

Change is getting Louder

Top highlight Louder launched nearly five years ago, as LoudSauce, with an audacious vision: to build a world in which regular citizens have the power to choose which voices and stories are promoted. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Louder has been acquired by Change.org. We’re excited