Matt Rhodes-Kropf

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ABOUT MATT RHODES-KROPF

In 2016, Matt and his partner Morris Miller formed Tectonic Ventures I, their first pooled fund. Juan Luis Leungli joined Tectonic, from General Catalyst, as a Partner in 2017.Matt was formerly the CFO of Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, where he worked with the founder to launch the firm and the world’s first Alzheimer’s imaging agent. Matt was also the COO of a quantitative hedge fund he helped form. Matt also advised on the creation and growth of Correlation Ventures, which leverages predictive analytics in making venture investments, where he continues to serve as an Advisor. Matt is presently a Board participant at Appex, Auterion, Avant-garde Health, Butlr, Movley, Olis Robotics, Rendered.ai, TIFIN Studios, Vecna Robotics, Wyebot, and Xenex. Additionally, Matt is on the board of Neighborhood Trust, and the advisory board for Duke University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship program (I&E Board).Matt teaches entrepreneurship and fin-tech in the Finance department at MIT. Matt’s research on venture capital and exits has been published in many leading finance and economic journals. Previously a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management department at Harvard Business School, Matt taught VCPE and published many HBS cases. Prior to HBS, Matt taught Entrepreneurial Finance as a finance professor at Columbia University.His work has been profiled in the Financial Times, The Economist, the MIT Sloan Management Review, Kauffman publications, Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine, PeHub, etc, and many popular blogs. He is regularly quoted in major print media such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Financial Times, etc, and has discussed his work on television, with appearances on CNBC, BBC and CNN. Matt gives talks throughout the world on the financing of innovation.