Matt Gorin

Matt Gorin is a co-founder of Contour Venture Partners and has twenty six years of experience as an operator, entrepreneur and seed stage venture capitalist. He is passionate about helping to build early stage companies, with a focus on the Financial Services, Enterprise SaaS and B2B Vertical SaaS sectors. His investments include Compyl, Cutover, Datadog, Felix Pago, LeagueApps, Movable Ink, OnRamp, Octane, OnDeck, Pendo, Routehappy, ShopKeep, SmartAsset, SwapDrive, Ticketfly, Wunderkind, YellowJacket and Yhat.

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Matt was previously with Promontory Financial Group, a merchant banking firm focused on the financial services sector. He was part of the launch team at Promontory Interfinancial Network, a financial services technology platform startup which has subsequently grown to include more than half the banks in the country. The Company was sold to Blackstone for ~$2.5 billion in 2019. Prior to this, Matt worked for Red Hat in its Strategic Planning & Corporate Development group where he was responsible for starting Red Hat's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partnership Program, ultimately establishing extensive business and technology partnerships with many of the top global independent software vendors including IBM. Matt also worked at Morgan Stanley in its strategic venture capital fund, concentrating on making investments in early-stage financial services companies. Earlier in his career, Matt was a turnaround consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he helped devise and implement operating strategies for troubled companies in various industries.

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Matt is the Founder of StreetWise Partners, a nonprofit focused on providing low-income individuals with a path to a successful career through mentoring, job skills and professional experience. He co-authored a Harvard Business School case study analyzing the origins of free trade and a paper in the World Economic Outlook on the economic and political risks in the Middle East.

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Matt received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. in Economics and American Studies from Brandeis University, where he was co-captain of the tennis team.