Matias de Tezanos
Founder & CEO @ PeopleFund
Matias de Tezanos is a seed investor at PeopleFund focused on Software and Advertising. Matias de Tezanos is the Founder and CEO of PeopleFund Inc. He previously worked at Orionis Biosciences as an Investor and Board Director.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Matias de Tezanos invests in
Stages Matias de Tezanos invests in
Countries Matias de Tezanos invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$1.5M
- Series A
- $4.4M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (10%)
- Advertising 2 (10%)
- Semiconductor 2 (10%)
- Solar 1 (5%)
- Energy 1 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (35%)
- Series A 5 (25%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series E 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 10 (50%)
- Guatemala 2 (10%)
- Japan 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Getaround empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with a $1M insurance policy and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using its app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car.Powered by Getaround ConnectTM, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe carsharing experience is without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment. | $140M / Series E / Oct 14, 2020 | ||
| Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase. | $933K / Seed / Apr 29, 2020 | ||
| Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density. By conquering the challenges of silicon, Advano integrates or completely replaces graphite in today’s lithium-ion batteries with its advanced silicon anode material - improving the longevity of lithium-ion batteries for batterymanufacturers and Tier one consumer electronics and automotive companies. | $18.5M / Series A / Jan 28, 2020 | ||
| Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density. By conquering the challenges of silicon, Advano integrates or completely replaces graphite in today’s lithium-ion batteries with its advanced silicon anode material - improving the longevity of lithium-ion batteries for batterymanufacturers and Tier one consumer electronics and automotive companies. | Series A / Sep 26, 2019 | ||
| AutoWeb operates as an automotive marketing services company that helps automotive retail dealers and manufacturers that sell new and used vehicles through its Internet lead referral and online advertising programs. The company's lead programs include new vehicle lead program that allows consumers to submit requests for pricing andavailability of specific makes and models, used vehicle lead program, which allows consumers to search for used vehicles according to specific search parameters, such as the price, make, model, mileage, year, and location of the vehicle; and finance lead program designed to provide consumers opportunity to obtain vehicle financing and other services. Its consumer-facing automotive Web sites, which include Autobytel.com, Autoweb.com, AutoSite.com, Car.com, CarSmart.com, CarTV.com, and MyRide.com, provide consumers the information and tools to aid them in their automotive purchase decisions, and the opportunity to submit lead requests. The company was formerly known as autobytel.com Inc.AutoWeb was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. | $5M / Post-IPO Equity / Sep 18, 2019 | ||
| Orionis Biosciences operates in the healthcare industry focusing on the biotechnology business and innovation.The company is an early-stage drug discovery and development biotechnology company fueled by a suite of disruptive technologies to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs – with an initialinternal focus in oncology and immunotherapies.Orionis Biosciences has research facilities in the Boston area (Headquarters in Waltham, MA, USA) and Ghent (Belgium), and is operated by a world class team of entrepreneurs, scientists and transatlantic network of investors, in concert with strategic research and development collaborations. The latter includes collaborations with VIB (Belgium), Orionis Biosciences co-founding institution. | $19.7M / Series B / Apr 30, 2018 | ||
| Orionis Biosciences operates in the healthcare industry focusing on the biotechnology business and innovation.The company is an early-stage drug discovery and development biotechnology company fueled by a suite of disruptive technologies to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs – with an initialinternal focus in oncology and immunotherapies.Orionis Biosciences has research facilities in the Boston area (Headquarters in Waltham, MA, USA) and Ghent (Belgium), and is operated by a world class team of entrepreneurs, scientists and transatlantic network of investors, in concert with strategic research and development collaborations. The latter includes collaborations with VIB (Belgium), Orionis Biosciences co-founding institution. | $19.7M / Apr 03, 2018 | ||
| Overclock Labs develops tools for automating how companies manage cloud infrastructure so they can save time, costs, and focus on what they’re good at. Using Overclock's DISCO (Distributed Infrastructure for Serverless Computing Operations), a company can integrate multiple cloud service providers together to reduce costs and increaseperformance. Disco allows customers to seamlessly deploy applications between various Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, IBM SoftLayer, or private clouds at any time, to enjoy the best offerings from all providers. | $1.3M / Seed / Nov 21, 2017 | ||
| SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $16M / Series A / Apr 19, 2017 | ||
| Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density. By conquering the challenges of silicon, Advano integrates or completely replaces graphite in today’s lithium-ion batteries with its advanced silicon anode material - improving the longevity of lithium-ion batteries for batterymanufacturers and Tier one consumer electronics and automotive companies. | $500K / Seed / Mar 16, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About PeopleFund
PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companies with the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com
PeopleFund Contacts
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Julio Gonzalez Arrivillaga
Founding Partner & Managing Director
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Diego Fernández
CoFounder and Director
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Jose Vargas
Co-Founder
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Matias de Tezanos
Founder & CEO
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Morten Sondergaard Pedersen
Manager
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FAQ
What does Matias de Tezanos invest in?
Matias de Tezanos invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Semiconductor startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Matias de Tezanos invest in?
Matias de Tezanos typically joins rounds of $300k–$1.5M at Seed and $4.4M–$34M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Matias de Tezanos's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Matias de Tezanos took part in.
How do I contact Matias de Tezanos?
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When did Matias de Tezanos last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Matias de Tezanos closed in Oct 2020. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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