# Matt Ober

> Matt Ober is a seed investor at Social Leverage (New York) backing B2B and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Social Leverage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-leverage)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-ober-caia-b2469214

Matt Ober is a General Partner at Social Leverage. Prior to that, he was the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point and a Co-Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant LLC. Matt holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and sits on the board of governors for his alma mater, California State University-Chico.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 2 | 50% |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Sales | 1 | 25% |
| Advice | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LEA | AI platform for financial advisors | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| SlashExperts | SlashExperts is a cutting-edge platform designed for business-to-business marketing and sales teams. | $2M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| 11th.com | AI-driven platform for investors to claim compesation in securities fraud cases. | $2M | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Seeds | Seeds empowers financial advisors to more deeply understand investors and to automatically deliver custom portfolios that align. Founded in 2019, Seeds is enabling the evolution toward truly intentional, purposeful, and personalized investing. | $2.7M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blank Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blank-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DuContra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ducontra-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/er-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Outside VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outside-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ritholtz Wealth Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ritholtz-wealth-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Touring Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/touring-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Social Leverage

VC Fund · Phoenix, United States

Social Leverage is a Venture Capital firm which specializes in early-stage and seed-stage investments in the Software, Consumer, and Fintech industries. Their investment selection process combines fundamental business evaluation, supported by two decades of domain experience building, valuing, and selling companies, with a strong deal flowpipeline consisting of top-ranked VC / PE funds, exceptional entrepreneurs and innovative management teams. Social Leverage uses these value drivers to invest in the best capital light companies with a viable product, serving a large addressable market, and solving a known pain point. Notable investments include Robinhood, Kustomer, Angellist, Wag, EToro, and Ticketfly.

4 contacts available at Social Leverage.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tom Peterson | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-peterson-5 |
| Gary Benitt | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-benitt |
| Howard Lindzon | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-lindzon |
| Matt Ober | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-ober |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Ober invest in?

Matt Ober invests primarily in B2B, FinTech and Sales startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matt Ober last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Ober closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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