# Matt Johnson

> Matt Johnson is a seed investor at Sand Hill Angels backing Machine Learning. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sand Hill Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sand-hill-angels)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-johnson-994267/

Matt Johnson is a world-renowned expert in price strategy and sales/marketing excellence. He has worked with over 200 firms in over 30 countries across the world. He has worked in a variety of industries, including banking, insurance, and financial services, as well as travel/hospitality, transportation/logistics, rail, energy,industrial manufacturing, distribution, cpg/retail, high-tech, semiconductor/electronics, software, and the internet. His past industry expertise includes three software and technology start-ups (one IPO and one bought for $200M), and he is still active as an entrepreneur mentor and angel investor. He has also been a frequent keynote speaker at industry events such as the Professional Pricing Society, FORTUNE Sales and Marketing Summit, OPI, and the American Marketing Association. He acquired his bachelor's degree in computer science and history from Duke University, and he also earned his MBA in pricing, marketing, finance, and operations from Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$6.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $6.1M | Seed | May 22, 2019 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $6.1M | Series A | May 22, 2019 |  |
| Atom Computing | Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California. | $5M | Seed | Sep 25, 2018 |  |
| Datmo | Datmo enables continuous delivery of data science. Deploy, Experiment and optimize without leaving your familiar workflows and deliver results in a fraction of the time. We are a team with DNA from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, UC Berkeley, IIT, Mozilla, Box, Wolfram, and Cisco, backed by top-tier VCs. We are passionate aboutcollaboration among the machine intelligence community (experts, enthusiasts, and otherwise). | $1.2M |  | Jul 31, 2017 |  |
| One Concern | One Concern is a Resilience-as-a-Service solution that brings disaster science together with machine learning for better decision making. With operations in the US and Japan, the company quantifies resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and monetize risk so disasters aren't so disastrous. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2015 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $588K | Angel | Jan 01, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Barclays Corporate Banking](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-plc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Augment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augment-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Deep Fork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deep-fork-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [American Family Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-family-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sand Hill Angels

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level. What makes the group unique is the collective experience of its members building and scaling deep technology companies. The group has been around for more than two decades.Sand Hill Angels works openly and collaborativelywith venture capital funds, other angel organizations, and the Bay Area ecosystem that fosters the growth of technology startups. For additional information, visit www.sandhillangels.com or follow @SandHillAngels.com on Twitter.

5 contacts available at Sand Hill Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Harper Cheng | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harper-cheng |
| Matt Johnson | Member, Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-johnson-16 |
| Ralph Eschenbach | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ralph-eschenbach |
| Scott Thacker | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-thacker |
| Todd Johnson | Investor & Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/todd-johnson-382a |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Johnson invest in?

Matt Johnson invests primarily in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 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 Johnson's check size?

Matt Johnson typically joins rounds of $5M–$6.1M at 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 Johnson participates in.

### When did Matt Johnson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Johnson closed in May 2019. Shizune tracks 6 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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