# Matt Billmann Christensen

> Matt Billmann Christensen is a seed investor at Netlify backing Software and Developer Tools. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Netlify](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/netlify)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-biilmann-christensen-a5a3805
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/biilmann
- Website: http://mathias-biilmann.net

Matt Billmann Christensen is a seed investor at Netlify in San Francisco focused on Software and Developer Tools. Matt Biilmann is the CEO and Co-founder of Netlify.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$8.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $950k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 43% |
| Developer Tools | 5 | 36% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 29% |
| Open Source | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 43% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Poland | 1 | 7% |
| Sweden | 1 | 7% |
| Denmark | 1 | 7% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PartyKit | PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Edgeless Systems | Edgeless Systems builds the secure platform to store, analyze, and share data, using confidential computing. | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Nx | Nx assist system development by supporting monorepos and offering robust integrations. | $8.6M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Grafbase | Grafbase provides secure self-hosted deployment options, unmatched query speed, advanced governance, and unified data access for reliable, enterprise-grade API management. Grafbase was founded in 2021 and is located at San Francisco, California. | $5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2022 |  |
| Strapi | Strapi is an open-source software helping developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs. Its open-source headless CMS provides backend functionality for applications and gives developers the freedom to use the tools of their choice for front-end frameworks. It’s called headless because the frontend is not part of the CMS, but there’s an APIfor content to show up on different devices.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $31M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Alokai | Vue Storefront, an API-focused and Front-End for eCommerce, can be connected with any 3rd party services while taking care that everything runs at peak performance. Vue Storefront is developed in two lines: as the open-source standalone code library based on Vue.js and as the cloud-native frontend as a service (FEaaS) dedicated to enterprises. | $17.4M | Series A | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Xata.io | Xata is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database platform. Designed for businesses to build faster, ship reliably and scale infinitely. | $5M | Seed | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| Grafbase | Grafbase provides secure self-hosted deployment options, unmatched query speed, advanced governance, and unified data access for reliable, enterprise-grade API management. Grafbase was founded in 2021 and is located at San Francisco, California. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Medusa | For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed. | $950K | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2021 |  |
| Nhost | Nhost is a full-fledged serverless backend for web and mobile applications. It enables developers to build dynamic mobile and websites without having to worry about infrastructure, data storage, data access, and user management. | $3M | Seed | Apr 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nauta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nauta-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Octave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octave-183e) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SquareOne Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/squarone-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tapestry VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tapestryvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Netlify

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Netlify is a Platform as a Service that builds, deploys, and hosts static websites and apps. Netlify is a unified platform that automates code to create high-performant, easily-maintainable sites and web-apps. By unifying the elements of the modern decoupled web, from local development to advanced edge logic.Netlify was founded in 2014 and isbased in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Netlify.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Bach | CSCO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-bach |
| Daniel Woelfel | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-woelfel |
| Mathias Biilmann Christensen | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-billmann-christensen |
| Matt Billmann Christensen | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mathias-biilmann-christensen |
| Stephanie Schatz | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephanie-schatz |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Billmann Christensen invest in?

Matt Billmann Christensen invests primarily in Software, Developer Tools and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Matt Billmann Christensen's check size?

Matt Billmann Christensen typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$8.6M at Seed and $950k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Matt Billmann Christensen participates in.

### When did Matt Billmann Christensen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Billmann Christensen closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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