Matt Turck

CEO

New York, New York, United States26 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Leading VC investor with extensive startup experience.
Founder of largest data/AI community in the US.
Host of a popular podcast on ML and AI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with a strong focus on AI and data-driven startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalInvestmentsCommunity EngagementContent CreationProduct Development

Other Skills

Start-upsMarket ResearchBusiness DevelopmentEvent ManagementCommunity BuildingPodcast ProductionAIEntrepreneurshipMergers & AcquisitionsPrivate EquitySaaSManagementEnterprise SoftwareFinancial ServicesStrategy

About

VC investor at FirstMark in New York. Also: I blog at mattturck.com, organize Data Driven NYC (largest data/AI meetup in the US), host the MAD podcast and produce the annual MAD (ML, AI, Data) report. All links here: https://linktr.ee/mattturck

Experience

26 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Firstmark capital

Managing Director

Mar 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 2 mos · New York, NY

Investor in early-stage startups, mostly seed and Series A, anywhere in the US and Europe.
Some companies I work with, in one capacity or another (board member, board observer, investor): Ada Support, Astronomer, ClickHouse, Cockroach Labs, Crossbeam, Dataiku, Daytona, DCG, Espresso AI, Estuary, Gradium, Harmattan AI, Helium (Nova Labs), Hyperscience, Lago, Ledger, Nextmv, Pigment, Softr, Sparta, SurrealDB, Synthesia, Upgrade.
Some companies I worked with previously: ActionIQ (acquired by Uniphore), Frame AI (acquired by Hubspot), Quickwit (acquired by Datadog), Recombine (acquired by Cooper), Sense360 (acquired by Medallia), Sketchfab (acquired by Epic Games), Sproutling (acquired by Mattel), TextIQ (acquired by Relativity), Timber (acquired by Datadog).

Venture CapitalInvestmentsStart-upsMarket ResearchBusiness Development

The mad podcast / data driven nyc

Host / Organizer

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Podcast, communites and events focused on AI, data & frontier tech:
The MAD (ML, AI & Data) Podcast (since 2024): a weekly podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DataDrivenNYC
Data Driven NYC: in person monthly events in New York (since 2012). With 120+ events organized since 2012 and 20,000+ members, Data Driven NYC has become the largest community of its kind in the United States. To attend, follow FirstMark on Luma: https://luma.com/user/firstmark
Hardwired NYC (2013-2020): a 7,000+ person community focused on frontier tech and emerging computing platforms: IoT drones, robotics, AR/VR, 3D printing, space, etc. [on hiatus since the pandemic]

Bloomberg ventures

Managing Director

Nov 2008 – Mar 2013 · 4 yrs 4 mos · New York

Helped start the incubation and venture arm of Bloomberg L.P.

Oracle corporation

Senior Director

Jun 2005 – Nov 2008 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Joined Oracle as Senior Director following the acquisition of TripleHop Technologies. Focused on launching new products globally (product, GTM, partnerships), in several categories, including enterprise search (Oracle SES) and collaboration (Oracle Collabsuite).

Triplehop technologies

Co-Founder, President & COO

Jan 2000 – Jun 2005 · 5 yrs 5 mos · New York

Co-founded enterprise search software startup, led product and GTM efforts. Our software MatchPoint used AI Bayesian techniques to search, classify and manage unstructured data. Company was venture-backed and headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Paris.
Acquired by Oracle to accelerate Oracle's efforts in enterprise search (MatchPoint became Oracle Secure Enterprise Search).