Matt Robinson
Founder of GoCardless
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Angel Investor
2019
Angel investor in great founders @ Acin, Causaly, Cleo, Codat, Duffel, Fonoa, Griffin, Heroes, Hopin, Human Loop, Incident, Infogrid, Jumbo, Lightdash, Lokalise, Net Purpose, Otta, Pento, Permutive, Pomelo, Resolve, Rossum, SoRare, Sylvera, Unitary, V7 Labs, Wagestream, Wayve.ai, Yapily and Zoe, and many more.
Founder & Board member
2016
Co-founder of Nested and Even. Backed by some of the world's leading investors including Balderton Capital, Northzone and Passion Capital.
Founder & Board member
2010
Founded GoCardless and built it into a world leading recurring payment company. Built a product and team from scratch which now collects >$10b per yr on behalf of >50k business worldwide. Backed by some of the world's leading investors including Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, GV, Notion Capital, Passion Capital and YCombinator.
Business Analyst
2008 - 2010
Given consistently outstanding reviews throughout my tenure and rated as one of the top performers in my intake, receiving an open offer to return. Developed strong client, analytical, problem-solving and management skills.
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
CEO
2003 - 2005
Whilst at school I built a company which created jobs for local students by training and supplying waiters and bar staff to corporate and private events. Despite it being a side-project we quickly grew to an annual turnover of c.£30,000 at a 33% profit margin.
Education
BA
2005 - 2008