Matt Espinoza

Co-Founder

Greater Toronto Area, Canada5 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Built software companies used by millions.
Achieved $500K market cap in 72 hours.
On track for $50M ARR in 2026.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with a strong focus on AI-driven growth and community engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

AI growth agentsprofitabilityproduct scalingMarket StrategyPrice experimentationPartnership with StripeInvestmentBusiness incubationOnchain reputation buildingUser engagementToken developmentSoftware engineeringUser growthViral marketingCommunity building

About

I'm 23 y/o, I've built software companies used by millions. Here's how it happened: 19 yrs old: Launched Agora Labs, a software company that helped creators raise capital using social tokens. Scaled to $500K USD market cap in 72 hours. 20 yrs old: Sold Agora Labs to Talent Protocol ($50M company). Made it on Forbes. 21 yrs old: Started HalationStudio.co — a holding company that invests, incubates, and scales internet businesses. 22 yrs old: We sold majority shares of our first portfolio company to private equity 3 months after incubation. 23 yrs old: Started making free content sharing how I’m building a tech empire. Been a crazy ride. But I'm only just starting. Today: I'm building a portfolio of AI growth agents — sharing everything I learn along the way. 💌 // Do you want to stay in touch? Sign up for my email list at https://email.matthewespinoza.com/ 🔗 matthewespinoza.com | 📬 matt[@]matthewespinoza.com Always looking to meet great companies and founders, so feel free to shoot me a message! 👇

Experience

5 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Clover labs

Co-Founder & Partner

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

A portfolio of four verticalized ('leafs') AI growth agents
First product: $0 → $500K/mo in 5 months
Second product: $0 → $200K/mo in 21 days
Now on track: to hit $50M ARR in 2026
We're profitability obsessed, and proudly Canadian 🍁

AI growth agentsprofitabilityproduct scalingEntrepreneurshipProduct Development

1price

Co-Owner

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Partnered with Stripe to build the world's most powerful price experimentation platform

Price experimentationPartnership with StripeSoftware Development

Inner circle hq

2 roles

Core Team

Dec 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Founder

Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos

A 500+ invite-only community for elite developers, founders, and investors.

Halation

Co-Founder & Partner

Dec 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

A bootstrapped holdCo that invests, incubates, & scales internet businesses.
We hit $2M ARR in 10 months, by engineering unfair distribution
All other companies are found here: halationstudio.co

InvestmentBusiness incubationEntrepreneurship

Reveel (r3vl.xyz)

Software Engineer

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · New York, New York, United States

Spent the summer in NYC and engineered growth in a fast-paced company. Added +300,000 users by building viral loops and sequences in 8 weeks.

User growthViral marketingSoftware Development

Talent protocol

2 roles

Advisor

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Close supporter of the team as they build professional reputation onchain to 1M+ users.
They've since partnered with WorldCoin, Coinbase, ENS, Celo, Optimism amongst others.

Onchain reputation buildingUser engagementSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 · 5 mos

Joined the team after they acquired my last startup. Helped build the first iteration of what will eventually become the infamous $TALENT token.

Token developmentSoftware engineeringSoftware Development

Various companies

Fellowships

Jan 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

ZFellows, Neo Scholar, RippleX Fellow, Sigma Squared Society Fellow, hackNY Fellow, Republic Ventures

Agora labs (acquired by talent protocol)

CEO / Co-Founder

Apr 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Built the infrastructure for creators to reward and engage their communities. Reached $500K market cap in 72 hours at launch.
Led multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, designers, and growth hackers from day 0 to exit.
After 1 year, it was acquired by Talent Protocol ($50M Company)

Community buildingEngagement strategiesEntrepreneurship