Accelerator - Matter

Entrepreneurs: Stop coding for a minute. Design folks: Stop running down intuition.

For early-stage startups, technical feats are the least important evidence of their potential.

It’s time to flare.

I’m proud of the impact we’ve made at Matter, the team we’ve built, and the people that we have transformed. But now it’s time for me to explore.

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Matter 08 Demo Day (San Francisco)

Videos from Matter 08 Demo Day in San Francisco.

Entrepreneurship

Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments.

Applications are open for Matter Nine. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements when making the decision about whether to invest in a startup: team, media, stage, mission alignment, and venture basics. All

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Meet Matter Eight

When Matter was founded in 2012, the media industry was struggling in the face of huge changes in revenue models, technology, and audiences. The internet created a completely new playing field — one that allowed more voices to be heard, but also for a select few to make the rules. While

Entrepreneurship

Maximizing the Matter Experience

Top highlightTwenty weeks go by in a blink. At Matter, our program can seem impossibly long when we begin with our bootcamp, and just as it gets hard to imagine what the end will be like, you lift your head and realize Demo Day is in just two weeks. As

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Join Matter Eight

Top highlightMedia is the bedrock of democracy.It’s the way we learn about the world. It connects us. It empowers us to make stronger decisions by arming us with information. The stories we hear through the media define how we relate to the people we share our society with

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Applying to Matter? Here’s how we think about our accelerator investments.

Applications are open for Matter Eight. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements when making the decision about whether to invest in a startup: media, stage, mission alignment, team, and venture basics. All

Education

Breaking Beyond the World of Ideas

When charged with the task of writing my final column for The Daily Tar Heel in April, I thought about what I could say that my fellow Tar Heels would actually want to read. I thought about abstracting from the world we live in to talk about the big ideas

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Meet Matter Seven

Top highlightThis year is different.When Matter. launched in 2012, we were inspired by Clay Shirky’s words on the rapidly-changing newspaper market: “now is the time for lots and lots of experiments”. Matter was created as a place to do those experiments. This year, in an increasingly divided world

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Join Matter. as a Program Coordinator — Help change media for good!

Matter Ventures is about to open our garage door to our seventh accelerator class. You have an opportunity to join them on this journey.

Design Thinking

Why entrepreneurs love our program.

Shared by Nadya Lev, CEO of Aconite, part of Matter Six. Going through Matter was one of the most intense, rewarding experiences of my life. With Matter’s guidance, my co-founder and I were able to take a deeper dive than ever before, both into our own personal aspirations, and

Venture Capital

Rules for Rebelpreneurs

Top highlightJournalists are under threat in our country — people don’t trust the news, fake publications and “alternative facts” make it an increasingly burdensome task to identify the truth, and multiple figures in the White House, including the president, have declared the media to be the “Enemy of the People.

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We are ready.

With four new hires, the Matter team is ready to deepen our impact right when it is needed most.

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Matter has launched in NYC!

The New York Times joins Matter, Google News Lab supports our space, and we welcome 12 new media startups into our community.

Accelerator

Don’t set goals — prototype them

During the Matter accelerator program, the goal all our entrepreneurs work toward is the same: Demo Day. The path to get there varies team to team, but the core is common: at the end of the 20 week sprint, they will present the culmination of their efforts on stage in

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Build Matter NYC with us.

We pulled it off in record time. In just 13 weeks, Matter expanded to New York City, built out a new space on Union Square, and launched our first bi-coastal accelerator class on June 13. We selected 6 NYC-based startups and 6 SF-based startups for our intense 20-week accelerator program

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Matter SF ∞ NYC

We’re expanding Matter to NYC…and bringing SF with us.

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Here’s what we look for.

The four key criteria any Matter applicants must meet.

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Get ready for Matter’s 100 Days of Summer.

With a bigger Matter team and simpler application process, the dates are now set for the next Matter class. Are you in?

Media

When 2 become 6.

Top highlightIt’s a well-kept secret that, until very recently, Matter has been the work of just two full-time individuals, punching well above their weight. For most of last year, Corey and Lara were running so fast and relentlessly that they didn’t even have time to interview candidates for

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Meet Matter’s First Associate

Today I am proud to announce that Lara Ortiz-Luis has been promoted to Associate at Matter.

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Join our team. Tell our story.

One definition of an entrepreneur is that an entrepreneur acts on opportunity without regard to resources they currently control. Well, I have an opportunity for you to act on — We are hiring at Matter. We are looking for a Storyteller to join our team to capture our stories, synthesize our

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Join our team. Invest in innovators.

We are looking for an Associate to join our team and help us expand our efforts to source, select, and support entrepreneurs building the future of media through our start-up accelerator and seed fund.

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Join our team. Create creative space.

One definition of an entrepreneur is that an entrepreneur acts on opportunity without regard to resources they currently control. Well, I have an opportunity for you to act on — We are hiring at Matter. We are looking for an Office Manager to join our team and help us continue to