Matchstick Ventures
VC Fund
Boulder, United States
Matchstick Ventures is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Software and SaaS. Matchstick Ventures supports the creation and growth of early-stage technology companies in rapidly growing yet underserved startup ecosystems. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in the business products, business services, information technology, and TMT sectors.
- Total investments:
- 181
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
- Fund size:
- $55M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Matchstick Ventures invests in
Stages Matchstick Ventures invests in
Countries Matchstick Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $319k–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $120k–$2.2M
- Series A
- $5.3M–$19M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 35 (19%)
- SaaS 23 (13%)
- E-Commerce 22 (12%)
- Information Technology 12 (7%)
- FinTech 11 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 85 (47%)
- Pre-Seed 35 (19%)
- Series A 21 (12%)
- Series B 5 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (2%)
Country
- United States 105 (58%)
- Canada 6 (3%)
- India 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David M Nichols
LP / Striker
|
LP / Striker | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Secunda
StrikerStriker
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StrikerStriker | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Natty Zola
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 37 | Find email | |
Nicki Miller
Operations Lead
|
Operations Lead | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryan Broshar
Founder & Partner
|
Founder & Partner | Total investments: 32 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Tab Commerce
|
Tab Commerce specializes in financial technology solutions for the restaurant industry. Their Spend Control Platform is designed to help restaurants manage their expenses more effectively and optimize their profitability. Tab Commerce helps streamline processes, improve efficiency, and provide valuable insights into spending patterns. Theirofferings aim to empower restaurant owners with tools that facilitate better financial decision-making and management. | $4M / Seed / Jul 01, 2026 | |
Saile
|
Saile is an AI-enabled healthcare workforce platform that automates credentialing, staffing, and scheduling for healthcare providers and facilities. Built by physicians, Saile addresses inefficiencies in healthcare staffing by replacing fragmented, manual processes with a unified, intelligent marketplace.At the core of the platform is Saile’sCredentialing Passport, which allows providers to complete credentialing once and reuse it across multiple facilities, reducing onboarding time from months to days. Saile integrates credentialing, compliance, scheduling, and shift matching into a single system, enabling facilities to fill shifts faster while giving providers access to flexible, high-value work opportunities.Using AI-driven matching and workflow automation, Saile improves workforce utilization, reduces administrative burden, and helps healthcare organizations manage staffing shortages more efficiently. The platform is designed to scale across hospitals, outpatient centers, and other healthcare facilities, with a focus on compliance, speed, and operational reliability.Saile operates as a marketplace and infrastructure layer for healthcare labor, positioning itself as a next-generation alternative to traditional staffing agencies and disconnected credentialing vendors. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / May 13, 2026 | |
Two Boxes
|
The future of sustainable e-commerce returns. | $3.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 07, 2026 | |
Great Sky
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Great Sky combines photonics, superconductors, and semiconductors. to develop AI hardware. | $14M / Seed / Mar 14, 2026 | |
Automate.clinic
|
Automate.clinic functions as a medical practice that connects AI developers with physicians to train and refine healthcare AI models through a Doctor-in-the-Loop™ infrastructure. This setup emphasizes domain-specific expertise for handling complex clinical reasoning, diagnostic uncertainty, and edge cases that generalist training cannot addresseffectively. Physicians engage in intellectually challenging work like evaluating AI outputs, correcting errors, and collaborating via peer reviews and case conferences, all within a community resembling an academic institution rather than a gig platform. | Pre-Seed / Dec 11, 2025 | |
Silkline
|
Modern operating system for direct materials procurement. | $4M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | |
Mentium.io
|
Mentium provides an AI-powered digital workforce tailored for logistics and freight operations. Its platform enables companies—such as shippers, brokers, and factoring firms—to deploy AI agents that automate manual tasks like document processing, invoice matching, order entry, quoting, payment tracking, and reporting using natural-language SOPs andintegrations with existing systems. It supports multiple formats (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, images, handwritten notes) and offers unified insights for auditing, trend detection, and discrepancy identification. | $3.2M / Seed / Oct 09, 2025 | |
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Great Sky
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Great Sky combines photonics, superconductors, and semiconductors. to develop AI hardware. | $3M / Seed / Sep 12, 2025 | |
Pageport
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Pageport helps businesses of all kinds build personalized videos and websites for each prospect. | $3.3M / Seed / Aug 26, 2025 | |
Zed Industries
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The goal of Zed Industries, a small but dedicated team, is to create the finest text editor possible.Not our first director, Zed. It represents the result of more than ten years of expertise in creating tools for developers. We developed the hackable text editor Atom and the ground-breaking software framework Electron, which gave rise to acompletely new class of desktop applications. The most well-known editors in the world use Tree-sitter, a sophisticated syntax parsing system that we also created. It is ingrained in our DNA to create useful instruments. | $32.4M / Series B / Aug 20, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Matchstick Ventures invest in?
Matchstick Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 181 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Matchstick Ventures's check size?
Matchstick Ventures typically joins rounds of $319k–$5M at Seed, $120k–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $5.3M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Matchstick Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Matchstick Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Matchstick Ventures?
The team at Matchstick Ventures includes David M Nichols (LP / Striker), David Secunda (StrikerStriker) and Natty Zola (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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