Matt Risley

Matt Risley serves as a Partner Emeritus at QED Investors, transitioning into venture capital after a career as a financial technology and payments executive. Prior to his current investment role, he operated as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Credit Officer at Klarna, overseeing the firm's machine learning strategy and managing its equity offerings. His earlier operational career features strategic leadership positions at Capital One and advisory responsibilities at Treliant Risk Advisors, alongside executive tenures at a peer-to-peer lender and a digital student lending platform in the financial services sector. Educated at Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, he subsequently left business school to pursue his professional career across the United States, Spain, and Sweden. Today, his primary investment focus targets the global payments sector, consumer fintech applications, business-to-business software-as-a-service, and healthcare technology.