# Matthew Murphy

> Matthew Murphy is a Series A investor at Chime backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chime-6)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjmurphy1
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mjmreport
- Website: http://www.montageventures.com

Matthew Murphy is a General Partner at Montage Ventures. Matthew previously worked at Plug and Play Tech Center as a FinTech Mentor. He attended Santa Clara University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 33% |
| FinTech | 7 | 26% |
| Real Estate | 6 | 22% |
| Finance | 3 | 11% |
| Software | 3 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 33% |
| Seed | 8 | 30% |
| Series B | 3 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 74% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AnthologyAI | AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale. | $15M | Series A | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| AnthologyAI | AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale. | $6M | Seed | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Unlock Real Estate | Keyway is the real estate solution designed for small and medium businesses to easily achieve their goals. | $25M | Series A | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Unlock Real Estate | Keyway is the real estate solution designed for small and medium businesses to easily achieve their goals. | $15M | Seed | Nov 12, 2021 |  |
| Unlock Real Estate | Keyway is the real estate solution designed for small and medium businesses to easily achieve their goals. | $15M | Seed | Nov 12, 2021 |  |
| Yuca | Yuca is a Brazilian rental services startup. | $4.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 31, 2020 |  |
| EasyKnock | EasyKnock is a real estate technology company on a mission to change homeownership to change lives. Its sale-leaseback programs, Sell & Stay and MoveAbility provide homeowners with money, time, and flexibility. The company is helping homeowners across the country to convert their home equity to cash without banks, loans, or moving. | $12M | Series A | May 09, 2019 |  |
| Upswing Health | Upswing Health provides a new way to conveniently deliver orthopedic care. Leveraging artificial intelligence, medical expertise, and an innovative care delivery model, Upswing's digital orthopedic clinic reduces costs and produces better outcomes across the entire MSK care continuum. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| EasyKnock | EasyKnock is a real estate technology company on a mission to change homeownership to change lives. Its sale-leaseback programs, Sell & Stay and MoveAbility provide homeowners with money, time, and flexibility. The company is helping homeowners across the country to convert their home equity to cash without banks, loans, or moving. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 19, 2018 |  |
| BacklotCars | BacklotCars allows auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies to transact without having to go to physical auctions. Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions. The company’s end to end solution is truly seamless for dealers as BacklotCars providesvehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services.The online marketplace offers a 24-7 “bid-ask” marketplace along with vehicle inspections and is used by dealers in 46 states. It’s designed to make the process of selling cars easier for both buyers and sellers by addressing longstanding pain points of online transactions like certified inspections.BacklotCars was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. | $4.8M | Seed | May 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canvas Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canvas-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crosscut Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosscut-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wicklow Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wicklow-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [B3 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b3-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Chime

VC Fund · Salt Lake City, United States

Chime started as a project to solve the issues these agents were facing - to create a solution that consolidated every digital tool for real estate into one easy-to-use platform. They achieved this with our premiere, mobile-first solution for the full spectrum of real estate professionals. Now, everything you could ever need is all in one place.

1 contacts available at Chime.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matthew Murphy | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-murphy |

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## FAQ

### What does Matthew Murphy invest in?

Matthew Murphy invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Real Estate startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 27 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 Matthew Murphy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matthew Murphy closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 27 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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