Matt Harris
Partner, Bain Capital Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Matt Harris is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, specializing in financial technology and services. He has led investments in companies such as Acorns, OpenFin, SigFig, Ribbon, and Billtrust.
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27said about them ↓ Everything Matt Harris said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Matt Harris: Refusing rule-breaking founders sacrifices venture upside
“If we only back founders who are unwilling to break rules, then I think we're giving away a lot of the upside of our industry.”
Harris: Entry valuation matters little if Series A ownership hits 18%-25%
“If you own 20%, 25%, 18%, something meaningful of a company that ends up being important, then it doesn't really matter whether your entry price was 20 posts or 40 posts.”
Bain Capital Ventures pauses deals receiving unanimous partner votes
“We have a rule internally that if everybody votes for a deal, we need to pause and rethink it.”
Matt Harris: Fear of macro cycles has cost me a lot of money
“My deep and abiding fear and recognition of the cyclicality of finance and the cyclicality of technology has actually cost me a lot of money.”
Harris: Bain Capital Ventures no longer co-leads Series A rounds
“Where we end up having to somewhat frustratingly draw a hard line is we generally don't co-lead Series A's anymore.”
Bain Capital: Market size is not the top Series A criteria
“We do talk about market size, but we surely don't think it's the most important thing at a Series A.”
Harris: VC Diversity Requires 50/50 Junior Hiring Plus Senior Lateral Hires
“At the lower ranks of our firms, we need to bring in the correct balance, correct being fifty-fifty at a minimum of men and women, and minorities should be added to this question as well, and we also need to lateral in senior investing talent at the same time.…”
Harris: Software platforms' share of total payment spend will reach 80%
“To our earlier conversation, it's about eight percent of all payment spend goes through software companies. But our view is that that eight is going to 80.”
Matt Harris: Bain Capital Ventures targets $300M–$400M annual deployment
“Our goal has been to invest three or four hundred million dollars a year. Again, we do both venture and growth equity, so that seems like a lot of money, but many of those are large checks and later stage companies. Fully half of it is your classic five to twe…”
Harris: Early-Career VCs Should Reject Generic Networking For Deep Differentiation
“I wish back then I'd said, More no to social obligations and these sort of vast generic horizontal obligations that we all take on, thinking that's what a venture capitalist should do, and instead focused on one or two things that really differentiate me.”
Matt Harris: Fintech grew to 10%–20% of all venture capital
“Fintech became 10 or 15% of the venture business, 20% some years.”
The other half of the tape: Matt Harris's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 26 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 10Misha Esipov 7Josh Kopelman 4Jerry Neumann 3Nigel Morris 2
Statements about Matt Harris, by other people (1)
Goldberg: Matt Harris is the best fintech investor in venture capital
“Matt Harris is, is probably the smartest and best fintech investor out there. I mean, you know, Ribbit's obviously incredible as well, but Matt Harris, I think, you know, has kind of set the direction of fintech for a very long time.”
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20VC 26
2024 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Bundling Does Not Work, How The Best Founders Analyse Unit Economics, Why The Way We Approach Mental Health in Venture and Startups is Wrong with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ QED Investors
- 20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 7 mentions in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | Partner, Bain Capital Ventures | 1 | 12 | 100% 2/2 | full record on 20VC → |