Matt Shobe
Co-Founder of Tuze
Mercer Island, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Human Centered Designer
2024 - Current
Joined the AI Corps to advance the DHS product roadmap, work to solve government-scale problems, and serve the American people while upholding my oath to the Constitution, pledging loyalty to no other entity.
U.S. National Infrastructure Advisory Council is a security enforcement organization that safeguards the American land from threats.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
2011
- Teaching "Video Prototyping", HCDE 526, currently - Member of Human Centered Design & Engineering Department's External Advisory Board - Sponsored the Shobe Prize for UW student entrepreneurs, 2010-2015 - Many other direct engagement activities on campus
Board Member
2024
Foundations is an in-person, invite-only community of tech founders & entrepreneurs in Seattle. I am helping define its community program structure to encourage pre-seed founders to home their companies here and for experienced operators, investors, and other sharp people from all walks to become members.
Co-Founder
2023
Tuze combines live sports data and large language models to deliver game predictions, recaps, and more, covering over 20 collegiate and pro sports. Expanding to additional domains soon.
Advisor
2013
In 2013 I designed and built initial social media engagement dashboards for sports teams, players, and leagues. Worked with CEO to build initial bidev relationships in the US and UK with organizations like Seattle Seahawks/Sounders and Manchester United. I still consult with the company on-demand.
Blinkfire Analytics uses AI and computer vision to optimize the sponsorship marketplace between creators, and their sponsors.
Raised $2,500,000.00 from Jim Adamczyk, Ethos Family Office, Dick Costolo, Michael Marasco, Jon Hallett, Harrison Metal and Andreas Mihalovits.
Simulation & AI Product Leader
2019 - 2022
As an early stage employee at Rebellion: - Established a new Seattle office as a U.S. product engineering hub - Wrote, designed and launched second major company website revision (early 2020) - Developed synthetic data product roadmap to accelerate computer vision efforts - Prototyped mission replay and visualization tools for autonomy applications - Helped architect Rebellion's company values - Lead brand storytelling exercises to prepare anyone in the company to talk to customers
Rebellion Defense's mission is to help the US and its partners outpace tomorrow's adversary.
Raised $150,000,000.00 from Shield Capital, Insight Partners, Lupa Systems, Innovation Endeavors, Venrock and Declaration Partners.
Co-Founder & Chief Experience Officer
2014 - 2019
As one of four co-founders, I focused on product strategy and all aspects of user experience. Additionally, as a generalist: - Hired and led the UX design & research team - Set up customer support and workforce community management - Evangelized Mighty product vision at industry events and webinars - Conducted investor relations/development to support the CEO - Developed (and occasionally coded!) internal ops tools and reporting Acquired by Uber June 2019.
Product & User Experience
2014 - 2014
As a product designer, I focused on investors who used AngelList's startup investment platform. - Designed angel investment performance reporting - Applied the 5-Day Design Sprint method to prototype and test a hiring mobile app design - Created the service design and built initial application review tools for a new investor vetting/education process - Helped run syndicate investment operations, assisting in closure of over dozen+ successful seed round raises totaling over $2M
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Chief Design Officer
2011 - 2012
As CDO, I helped design the next gen of BigDoor's gamified loyalty platform for partners like MLB, NFL, Dell, and the City of Austin, Texas.
BigDoor is a white label software platform that helps brands increase customer engagement, reward users, and build loyalty.
Raised $12,815,000.00 from Foundry Group.
Staff User Experience Designer
2007 - 2011
As a user experience designer: - Spearheaded various efforts to incorporate the key parts of FeedBurner into the overall Google publisher product mix - Designed and launched the initial version of Google Apps Enterprise Marketplace - Proposed a strategy to better map the complexity of advertising tools to match publisher scale - Designed early enterprise versions of Google Hangouts/Meet - Won two Founders Awards for work on ads products
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.