Matt Eggers
Managing Director at Prelude Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2023 - Current
We invest in climate.
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.
Angel Investor, Seed
2017
Angel Investor, Pre-seed
2015
Angel Investor, Pre-Seed
2017
Unlocking financing for clean energy solutions by underwriting credit risk for unrated or below investment grade organizations.
Raised $11,440,000.00 from Greensoil PropTech Ventures, SE Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Congruent Ventures and MUUS Climate Partners.
Angel Investor, Seed
2015
Super is an insurtech company that offers a subscription service for home care and repair.
Raised $79,600,000.00 from Munich Re Ventures, American Automobile Association, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, National Association of REALTORS, Aquiline Technology Growth, Moderne Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, REACH, Gaingels and Asahi Kasei.
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.
Investor and Board Director
2020 - 2023
ZeroAvia develops hydrogen-electric powertrains for zero-emission aviation solutions.
Raised $293,950,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund, Summa Equity, NEOM Investment Fund, Horizons Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Scottish National Investment Bank, Airbus, National Wealth Fund and AP Ventures.