# Nate Matherson

> Nate Matherson is a seed investor at Positional backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Positional](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/positional)
- Location: Hoboken, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natematherson/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/natematherson
- Website: https://www.natematherson.com/

Nate Matherson is a seed investor at Positional in Hoboken focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$5.9M |
| Series A | $15M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 31% |
| FinTech | 7 | 27% |
| SaaS | 5 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 12% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 77% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 35% |
| India | 3 | 12% |
| Mexico | 3 | 12% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pickle | Pickle is an AI startup comprised of AI engineers with medical and computer engineering backgrounds. It provides a personalized real-time lip-syncing clone service that can be used on video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet based on the vision of 'Make Chats Easy' with AI. | $4.4M | Seed | Jun 05, 2025 |  |
| Assembly HOA | Modernizing HOA management through advanced automation and transparency for streamlined community governance. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Assembly HOA | Modernizing HOA management through advanced automation and transparency for streamlined community governance. |  |  | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| DryMerge | DryMerge is a chatbot that facilitates the development of custom processes and API integrations for teams and SaaS customers. The Drymerge chatbot communicates with clients or colleagues directly, takes note of their needs, and promptly builds workflows and API connections on top of your product to satisfy them. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| Unify | Combine All Models for Faster, Cheaper, and Better Responses Than Any Single Model | $8M | Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Outset | AI-powered user research | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| ParadeDB | ParadeDB is a Postgres-based ElasticSearch alternative, engineered for lightning-fast full text, similarity, and hybrid search. | $2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| Unify AI | Unify lets you route any prompt to the best LLM endpoint, optimizing output quality, speed and cost for any use-case. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 02, 2023 |  |
| Numeral | Numeral creates to make it as simple as possible for e-commerce entrepreneurs to handle sales tax. | $4M | Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Dropezy | A daily needs platform that uses a network of dark stores to guarantee deliveries in under 20 minutes. | $3.4M | Seed | Feb 20, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Rebel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebel-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Positional

VC Fund

Over the last decade, our team has built and scaled content channels in some of the most competitive verticals (ex. insurance, personal loans, b2b SaaS). Today, we are building a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.

2 contacts available at Positional.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Lenhard | Co-founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-lenhard |
| Nate Matherson | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nate-matherson |

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## FAQ

### What does Nate Matherson invest in?

Nate Matherson invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 Nate Matherson's check size?

Nate Matherson typically joins rounds of $300k–$5.9M at Seed and $15M–$20M 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 Nate Matherson participates in.

### When did Nate Matherson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nate Matherson closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 26 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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