Matt Sechrest

Matt Sechrest is an Investor at Sky9 Capital based in San Francisco, California, where he focuses on seed and Series A investments across the United States and Asia. Since joining the firm in early 2023, he has backed more than 20 companies, recently leading a Series A investment in the artificial intelligence startup Verdant Robotics in March 2025. Previously, Sechrest served as an Associate at Founders Fund from 2018 to 2022, sourcing and managing investments in high-growth technology enterprises including the financial unicorn startup Brex. Before entering the venture capital industry, he gained foundational finance and operational experience working in investment banking at Evercore and earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Stanford University. His current global investment strategy primarily targets early-stage founders building enterprise software, financial technology, consumer internet applications, and frontier technologies.