Matthew Stotts

General Partner

2021 - Current

A changing climate changes everything. Climate Change is such an inadequate term. It changes where rain falls, where plants can grow, where life lives, where human habitation is viable. It changes the color of planet, the chemistry of oceans, the shape and safety of coastlines, reroutes ocean currents, alters plant physiology. Climate changes everything. In response, Cerulean Ventures seeks climate solutions and innovations with the potential to reach Earth-scale. Our investments focus on mitigating the inputs that cause problems, creating carbon-neutral or net-negative alternatives to GHG pollution and innovating products and economic systems that restore balance and equity to society and our planet. We take an active role at incubators and accelerators, as well as through our growing network. We work at the earliest stages with innovators, inventors, scientists and engineers to help them form and fund the future. We believe the future is bright if we build it. More at www.cerulean.vc

Co-Founder

2018

Our multi-family office invents and invests in technology to democratize and open the world.

Investment Committee

2016

Lecturer, Technology Management Program

2015 - 2024

Matthew Stotts is a lecturer on technology-based business models, startup methodologies and the practice of entrepreneurship in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Run from the College of Engineering, UCSB’s Technology Management Program provides driven, innovative, and entrepreneurial students with a solid foundation in business principles and professional skills vital to their success after graduation. Matthew is the founder of Tenor, a strategic consulting firm for private growth companies and investors in the private capital markets.

Founder

2003 - 2023

Tenor is a strategic advisory firm in the private capital markets working with venture-backed technology businesses and their investors.

Co-Founder (COO)

2021 - 2022

Holaplex built a first of its kind open-source commerce platform on the Solana blockchain. As co-founder, I oversaw fundraising, hiring, finance and business development. (Exit 2023)

Lecturer

1998 - 2000

The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University is a continuing project dedicated to developing and offering multimedia computer-based distance-learning courses. Combining technical and instructional expertise, EPGY provides high-ability students of all ages with an individualized educational experience, optimized in both pace and content. Through EPGY, students have access to courses in a variety of subjects at levels ranging from kindergarten through advanced-undergraduate. Since its inception over 50,000 students from 35 countries have taken courses from EPGY.