Matt Weigand
Matt Weigand is a partner at Accel, a global venture capital firm, where he has worked since 2013. He focuses on enterprise software, financial technology, and security investments, with notable portfolio companies including Snyk, Cognite, Veriff, DriveWealth, Axonius, and Nebius. He represents Accel on the boards of Snyk, Cognite, Veriff, and DriveWealth. Prior to joining Accel, he worked in the technology investment banking group at William Blair.
“Matt Weigand's $150M PIPE into Nebius — made before it was a consensus name — is now up 10–13X.”
“Would remind us every day to be humble and to hustle. — Matt Weigand”
“Matt Weigand led a $150 million PIPE investment 16 months before the interview; the position is up approximately 13x.”
Source→“"The returns in the private market at the late stage are actually going to start matching the returns at the early stage. If you look at top quartile performance of early stage funds versus late stage funds, I think they're going to be pretty close to each other throughout this cycle."”
Source→“Matt Weigand noted he tried to buy Arkady's 30% stake in ClickHouse, which Arkady "rightfully refused to do," leading to the relationship that eventually produced the Nebius investment.”
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