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🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E6: Deepa Subramanian— Co-founder, Wherewithall

The Drunken Walk - Deepa Subramanian - 1:10:11Deepa Subramanian started out as a physics major and switched to computer science when she realized how much she loved…radiopublic.comDeepa Subramanian started out as a physics major and switched to computer science when she realized how much she loved

Guns

Introducing GunFacts: A Tool for Fact-Driven Gun Debates

GunFacts (a project by grafiti, a Matter Seven company) is a site where you can find and share charts, graphs and other data visualizations that reflect how guns impact America — including mass shootings, gun access, violence against women, families and minorities, Congressional voting, public opinion, the NRA, and more. We’

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

Media

Build the media platform of tomorrow.

The way we learn about the world is transforming.The next wave of internet platforms is coming into view. Four years from now, over half of us will have an intelligent assistant in our home, and over half of all internet searches will be voice-activated. Blockchain technology has brought decentralization

Journalism

Compass News: How we built an AI editor that makes millennials smarter, quicker.

Ciao!Mayank and I met at a pub in Covent Garden, the day after the Brexit vote. We chatted about how our friends had started blocking each other on Facebook because of comments on the 2015 election and Brexit. Initially, we thought this behaviour was hilarious — but the more we

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Purple

We’ve been bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. You’ve heard from eleven teams so far—The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, CivNet, DADA, Nametag, and SmartFeed. To close the show is Purple. Purple allows independent writers to build

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: SmartFeed

We’ve been sharing pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day for the past two weeks. So far you’ll have heard from The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, CivNet, DADA, and Nametag. There’s two more to go, and next on stage is

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Nametag

We’re sharing pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day — including Thanksgiving! So far you’ll have heard from The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, CivNet, and DADA. Today, tune in to hear about Nametag, a platform for deeper, more intimate online conversations that

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: DADA

We’re bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. So far we’ve shared The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, Rewire, and CivNet. Now on stage: DADA. DADA is a social network where people speak to each other through drawings, channeling collaborative

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: CivNet

So far in the Demo Day special you’ve heard The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, In the Room, and Rewire. We’re bringing you all twelve live pitches from Matter Seven every day until Saturday. Tune in today to discover CivNet, a tool that enables small, informal groups to

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Rewire

We’re halfway through this Drunken Walk special, bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. So far you’ve heard The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, Multimer, and In the Room. Now meet Rewire. Rewire makes secure, end-to-end encrypted email usable by all. If you missed

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: In the Room

We’re bringing you live pitches from Demo Day every single day for the next week. So far you’ve met Matter Seven entrepreneurs from The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, Vigilant, and Multimer. In this episode you’ll hear from In the Room, a mobile app that allows you to connect

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Multimer

We’re bringing you live pitches from Matter Seven entrepreneurs every single day. So far you’ve heard The Establishment, Grafiti, Gretta, and Vigilant. Now on stage, Multimer. Multimer helps quantify population sentiment in any given space by measuring and analyzing biosensor data for better decisions based on human signals.

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Vigilant

We’re continuing to bring you live pitches from Matter Seven Demo Day every single day. So far we’ve heard from The Establishment, Grafiti, and Gretta. Tune in today to find out more about Vigilant, a search platform and data aggregation API that connects users with information from thousands

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Gretta

We’re continuing our Demo Day Special series, bringing you live pitches from our Matter Seven entrepreneurs every single day. So far we’ve heard from The Establishment and Grafiti. Now, meet Gretta, the social platform for podcasts. If you’re just joining us, start with the Demo Day intro

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Grafiti

Over the next two weeks we’re bringing you Demo Day Specials — live pitches from each of the twelve Matter Seven teams. First up was The Establishment. In this episode Farhan Mustafa presents Grafiti, an app that allows you to easily share visualized, trusted data across current events, business, culture

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: The Establishment

Over the next two weeks we’re bringing you Demo Day Specials—live pitches from each of the twelve Matter Seven teams. First up is The Establishment, a women-run multimedia content platform committed to amplifying voices marginalized by the mainstream. Catch up on the full show here. The Drunken Walk

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, Matter Seven Demo Day Special: Intro

In our second season, so far, you’ve heard from the speakers who have accompanied Matter Seven throughout their 20-week journey. Now, it’s time for you to hear from the entrepreneurs themselves. We’re bringing you a thirteen-part series of Matter Seven’s Demo Day, starting with an intro

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E15: Jennifer Tacheff—Women Who Code

Jennifer Tacheff, VP of Partnerships and Growth at Women Who Code, is building a community that promotes diversity in tech—and the response has been incredible. Over 100,000 members have joined them in just a couple years. Jennifer joined Matter Seven entrepreneurs in San Francisco to talk about how

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🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E14: Hannah Donovan—CEO, Trash TV

Hannah Donovan has been a designer in digital media for over ten years—mostly working for startups. She’s led teams at Drip, The Echo Nest, and Vine, and co-founded This Is My Jam and Trash TV. In addition to startups, she’s also worked for big media names like

Startup

Sharing Our Demo Day

Demo Day is the culmination of every Matter program. Matter Seven was no different. On two coasts, all 12 of the teams making up our current cohort pitched their hearts out, told their stories, and shared a collective vision of a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society. Fortunately, for anyone

Startup

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E13: Chris Wilkes—HearstLab

Chris Wilkes, VP at HearstLab, joined Matter Seven in New York City to talk about his experiences in media innovation and investing. Chris’s career in digital media has spanned over twenty years, and his latest venture, HearstLab, is a community of women-led startups working inside Hearst Tower. Tune in

Entrepreneurship

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E12: Beth Viner—Kickstarter

Beth Viner is the GM at Kickstarter, where she supports the communities that use their crowdfunding platform. She makes sure that creators and backers have the best possible experience, facilitating the relationships that make crowdfunding work. Beth joined a room full of Matter Seven entrepreneurs in New York City to

Augmented Reality

New realities are new opportunities

At Matter., our mission is to help create a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society by investing in the next generation of media institutions. That means investing in products that establish new kinds of media habits. We invest in teams that harness emerging technology to build these new media experiences.

Media

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