Matt Eggers
Managing Director at Prelude Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2023 - Current
Early-stage investors (inception through Series A) in climatetech
We invest in climate.
Investor and Board Director
2024
Vaulted Deep provides proven technology solutions for permanent carbon removal to promote local environmental and community health.
Raised $40,300,000.00 from Prelude Ventures, Fall Line Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, WovenEarth Ventures, Earthshot Ventures and Rethink Impact.
Investor and Board Director
2024
Graphyte offers carbon removal services by utilizing a carbon casting technology.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Carbon Direct Capital, Overture VC, Prelude Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Investor and Board Director
2021
LuxWall is a building materials manufacturer that innovates the design and production of vacuum-insulated glass.
Raised $121,719,999.00 from The Nature Conservancy, Baruch Future Ventures, Climate Investment, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Carbon Equity, Prelude Ventures, 2150, Khosla Ventures and Barclays Sustainable and Impact Banking.
Co-Founder
2020
Angel Investor & Advisor
2014
Pre-seed or seed investor in: Zymergen, Inc (synthetic biology - IPO followed by acquisition), Super Home (consumer home services), Bright Inc. (residential solar), Omnidian Inc. (solar fleet management), Energetic Insurance (credit insurance for commercial solar), MIXT (healthy+sustainable fast casual dining concept), Faraday Bicycles (acquired by Dutch conglomerate PON Holdings), and a founding investor in The Builder's Fund (impact private equity fund with investments in Urban Remedy, MPOWERD, Traditional Medicinals, etc). I was a key advisor to CelLink in their seed funding and they've gone on to raise $315M in follow-on funding from T. Rowe, Fidelity, Whale Rock, BMW, 3M, Lear, and Ford.
Partner
2018 - 2023
BEV is a multi-billion dollar early stage venture capital firm dedicated to building profitable companies that will have a massive positive impact on climate change.
Investor and BoD
2022 - 2023
Guidewheel's AI-powered FactoryOps platform empowers manufacturers to drive productivity and net zero at scale.
Raised $51,980,000.00 from Greycroft, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, GSBackers, Ecolab, Decarbonization Partners and Rethink Impact.
Investor and Board Director
2022 - 2023
Conduit Tech is a home design firm that provides custom 2D floorplans, as well as HVAC system design, sales, and installation services.
Investor and Board Director
2022 - 2023
Building satellites to capture the ultra-high resolution 10 cm visible imagery, co-collected with 2 m thermal imagery.
Raised $93,000,000.00 from Shield Capital, Initialized Capital, Booz Allen Ventures, Republic capital, Giant Step Capital, Y Combinator, Bill Perkins, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Cubit Capital and Jetstream.