# Matthew Luckett

> Matthew Luckett is a seed investor at ALBA Holdings (New York) backing Fashion and Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ALBA Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alba-holdings)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2020
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Matthew Luckett is a seed investor at ALBA Holdings in New York focused on Fashion and Software. Matthew Luckett - Managing Partner @ ALBA Holdings

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $940k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $2M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 3 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Analytics | 3 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 16% |
| Internet | 2 | 11% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 47% |
| Series A | 3 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 16% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Podchaser | Podchaser is the world’s most comprehensive podcast database — collecting, enriching, and distributing podcast insights to power discovery for listeners, podcasters, and brands. | $1.7M | Seed | Jan 29, 2020 |  |
| Podchaser | Podchaser is the world’s most comprehensive podcast database — collecting, enriching, and distributing podcast insights to power discovery for listeners, podcasters, and brands. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Misen | Misen manufactures and sells quality tools that are essential for great cooking. The company combines thoughtful design, premium materials, and honest pricing to bring customers knives and cookware that have won over professional and amateur cooks alike.The company's kitchen knife is a Japanese-style blade crafted with premium materials andits skillets are made from stainless steel to even heat distribution and retention, allowing chefs and cooking enthusiasts to be creative and versatile in the kitchen and produce better quality food. | $940K | Seed | Sep 21, 2017 |  |
| Show-Score | Show-Score a community of people who enjoy theater and want it to flourish. For that to happen, shows need to easily and quickly find audiences who will enjoy them -- if there are too many empty seats, the show literally can’t go on. | $2M | Series A | Mar 08, 2017 |  |
| Felix Gray | Felix Gray eyewear is an intelligent and fashionable solution for technology users who stare at computer screens day. Felix Gray designer glasses are handcrafted from beautiful Italian acetate and utilize lenses engineered to filter the most harmful wavelengths of high energy light emitted from digital screens. Felix Gray eyewear is an intelligentand fashionable solution for technology users who stare at computer screens day.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States. |  | Seed | Feb 28, 2017 |  |
| Fresh Nation | Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of smallvendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management. | $2.5M | Convertible Note | Jan 20, 2017 |  |
| Velocidi | Velocidi is a customer data platform (CDP) company headquartered in New York, with offices in Porto, Portugal. We deliver a private CDP deployed in each client’s own infrastructure as if it were built in-house. Velocidi is used by direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands to collect and unify 1st-party customer data, leverage machine learning to predictcustomer behavior, directly activate audience segments on advertising platforms, and maintain complete ownership and control of their data. | $12M | Series A | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| AYR | AYR is an e-commerce driven womenswear line headquartered in New York City. Launched in February 2014, it was co-founded by Maggie Winter and Jac Cameron. The name AYR is an acronym for "All Year Round." The line offers a range of womenswear clothing, with a focus on denim. AYR launched exclusively online but has expanded with a guideshopand through wholesale partnerships. | $5.5M |  | Jun 24, 2016 |  |
| Show-Score | Show-Score a community of people who enjoy theater and want it to flourish. For that to happen, shows need to easily and quickly find audiences who will enjoy them -- if there are too many empty seats, the show literally can’t go on. | $1.5M | Seed | May 10, 2016 |  |
| Hammerhead | Hammerhead believes in a world where cyclists can use sophisticated, integrated software to achieve their athletic potential and enhance their rides. | $3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2015 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SilverHaze Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silverhaze-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ALBA Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alba-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ALBA Holdings

VC Fund · Lefkosa, Cyprus

Family Office

1 contacts available at ALBA Holdings.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matthew Luckett | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-luckett |

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## FAQ

### What does Matthew Luckett invest in?

Matthew Luckett invests primarily in Fashion, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Matthew Luckett's check size?

Matthew Luckett typically joins rounds of $940k–$6.5M at Seed and $2M–$12M 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 Matthew Luckett participates in.

### When did Matthew Luckett last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matthew Luckett closed in Jan 2020. Shizune tracks 19 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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