Matt Cohen

Co-Founder

Toronto, Ontario, Canada20 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of Ripple Ventures, supporting early-stage startups.
  • First investment in Turnstyle Solutions led to significant growth.
  • Expert in enterprise SaaS sales to top financial institutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with a strong focus on early-stage technology investments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalEntrepreneurshipSales ManagementCapital MarketsMarketingAnalytics

Other Skills

Investment StrategyHedge FundsEvent DrivenEquity TradingEquity ResearchAlternative InvestmentsBloombergFidessaThompson OneAngel InvestingFixed IncomeOptionsTradingInvestment BankingEquities

About

I am an entrepreneur and venture capitalist focused on early-stage technology. I've been involved with some great companies but my first investment in Turnstyle Solutions as the founding investor influenced me the most. From the early days at Turnstyle, I helped bring an idea to life and watched my initial investment turn into a 50 person company that was eventually acquired by a US public company in 2017. I know the risk entrepreneurs take when starting a company, and I understand what helps them succeed at the earliest stage. I have hands-on experience in selling enterprise SaaS solutions to the top financial institutions globally. I see the importance of working with trusted advisors and partners early to help scale a business faster. Finally, I know what helps add value to a company in the beginning and what is just for show. I founded Ripple Ventures in 2018 to help entrepreneurs and start-ups learn from my experiences while giving them more than just capital to succeed. With our 'Operators-First' approach, we work with companies every day not just every quarter. That is why we opened 'The Tank', our incubator space to offer start-ups a turnkey office space to scale their businesses with advisors and mentors surrounding them every day to help them succeed.

Experience

North vector dynamics

Investor

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • North Vector Dynamics (https://www.northvectordynamics.com/) is building Canada’s first full-spectrum air defence company, developing precision interceptor systems designed to defeat threats ranging from small commercial drones to hypersonic glide vehicles.

Canada rocket company

Investor

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos

  • Canada Rocket Company (https://www.canadarocketcompany.com/) is building Canada's only methalox engine. The E-1 is our 700kN GG engine - powered by Liquid Oxygen (LOX) / Liquid Methane (CH4) - designed and built in Canada.
  • We invested in their $6.2M inception round: https://betakit.com/canada-rocket-company-wants-canada-to-stop-hitching-rides-to-space/

Clover labs

Investor

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Clover (cloverlabs.ai) is building an interconnected portfolio of autonomous Al agents that act as growth engines to drive revenue on autopilot.
  • We met Matt through RippleX years ago and excited to finally become an investor in him and Ryan.

Pica

Investor & Board Director

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Pica simplifies building AI agents by giving them the knowledge they need to act correctly the first time. Instead of trial-and-error, agents retrieve the required context before acting.

Mycroft

Investor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Mycroft (www.mycroft.io) is the operating system that consolidates and automates your entire security stack — powered by AI Agents and supported by experts.
  • Ripple led the pre-seed to partner with Mike, Jon and Jan.
  • Current: $4M raised from Luge and Brightspark.

Katalyze ai

Investor & Board Member

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Katalyze is an AI-based optimization platform designed to increase the efficiency of biomanufacturing. By providing an integrated and comprehensive platform, Katalyze offers an end-to-end solution from raw material optimization to traceability. Our software is highly flexible and can be tailored to your needs - develop your AI use cases with us or use our a là carte modules.

Theo ai

Investor

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Theo AI (theoai.ai) helps legal teams predict case outcomes.
  • Ripple invested at the pre-seed to support Patrick, Tiago, and Jay.
  • Current: Raised $10M from Run VC, NextView, nvp, and Collide.

Netnow inc.

Investor & Board Observer

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • NetNow offers a comprehensive technology solution for your credit team.
  • With its trade credit platform, you can quickly onboard customers, make precise credit approvals, and proactively manage risks.
  • Their technology empowers you to develop a top-tier credit department, transforming your finance team into a significant competitive asset.

Rose rocket

Investor & Board Member

Apr 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • RoseRocket is order management software for transportation companies. They help trucking and freight providers manage critical steps in their order process.

Wisedocs

Investor & Board Member

Sep 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Wisedocs is an AI powered automation platform that processes and understands medical documents in real time, making it easier for organizations in the insurance industry to evaluate medical claims faster and more accurately.

Voiceflow.com

Investor & Board Observer

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Tread inc.

Investor

Mar 2018Present · 8 yrs · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Tread is a job marketplace and real-time logistics platform for contractors to hire heavy equipment-operating subcontractors.
  • Tread easily manages the entirety of the relationship between the parties throughout a transaction, from initial connection, identity verification and contract formation, to performance and live vehicle tracking during a job, as well as payment processing upon completion.
  • Tread lowers the cost by 25% to hire subcontractors, reduces liability and uncertainty for all parties involved and makes sure that the highest quality connections will drive business forward.

Oncall health (acquired by qualifacts)

Investor & Board Member

Mar 2018Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • OnCall Health is a North American market leader in simple, secure virtual care software, powering over one million virtual healthcare appointments each year. Hundreds of leading healthcare brands and enterprises trust OnCall Health to expand and improve access to their services. OnCall Health’s virtual care platform enables healthcare organizations to launch, monetize, and scale their own branded virtual care programs, as well as to track utilization and outcomes in a live dashboard.

Ripple ventures

Founder & Managing Partner

Jan 2017Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Ripple Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Toronto, Canada seeking new investments in various industries ripe for disruption. As serial entrepreneurs, we are actively involved with all our investments and aren't scared to roll up our sleeves and get dirty. We provide ongoing advice and support to all our portfolio companies, in addition to helping them leverage our broad business networks. We support entrepreneurs who seek to revolutionize the most competitive global industries by solving difficult problems with the most unique solutions.
Venture CapitalEntrepreneurshipInvestment Strategy

Tokyo smoke

Private Investor

Dec 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Tokyo Smoke is the first modern lifestyle brand that brings sophistication and design to Coffee, Clothing and Cannabis. It was founded by a father and son team, based on a strong passion for the Cannabis space, and strong desire to support the Cannabis movement.
  • Tokyo Smoke is a leading example of the evolution and maturation of the Cannabis market. As Cannabis is becoming a more mainstream product, with demands from a more mainstream audience, we've developed the Tokyo Smoke brand to elevate the Cannabis experience, and recognize it as a legitimate part of our lives and culture. It should be as beautiful and covetable as designer clothing and coffee

Street contxt

Director - Sales

Sep 2015Aug 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Street Contxt is a global Capital Markets communication platform that helps solve the growing disconnect between an increasingly fragmented content marketplace for buy and sell side professionals in the institutional finance industry. We use algorithmically driven models that provide smart, actionable insights, that are contextual to each user. The platform revolves around a common goal of building a content marketplace through helping content producers distribute ideas and commentary effectively.

National bank of canada

Director - Institutional Equities Sales & Trading

Jan 2013Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

MarketingAnalytics

Turnstyle solutions (acquired yelp!)

Founding Investor & Board Member

Sep 2012Apr 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Toronto

  • Turnstyle Solutions is a marketing and analytics platform that utilizes public Wi-Fi to attract, retain and reward customers. Turnstyle enables clients to learn actionable insights about on-premise customer behaviour and send real-time messages, coupons and rewards directly to customers’ phones without the use of a mobile application. Turnstyle helps the world’s largest brands monetize their Wi-Fi by enabling location-based marketing and analytics, providing the same tools online retailers have enjoyed for over a decade
Sales ManagementCapital Markets

Rbc capital markets

3 roles

Vice President Institutional Sales

May 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Vice President

Feb 2009May 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • US Event-Driven Trading

Vice President

Jun 2005Jan 2009 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • North American Hedge Fund Equity Trader

Education

Harvard Business School Executive Education

Private Equity and Venture Capital

Jan 2018Jan 2018

Dalhousie University

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) — Accounting and Finance

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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