#82 - Matt Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures. Equity Trading on Wall Street to Tech Operator turned Venture Investor.

Join in for a conversation with Matt Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures. Ripple Ventures is a Toronto-based early-stage venture fund that works alongside startups through the good and the bad every day. Fitting with their motto of “Operators First” per Matt’s background as an operator turned investor. Though before Matt became an operator, his career started in finance as an equity trader for RBC, completing tours on Wall Street and Bay Street. While working in capital markets, he made a seed investment in Turnstyle Solutions, cutting his operator’s teeth on the company’s journey to getting acquired by Yelp. We go through the various pivots in Matt’s journey from capital markets, tech operations, angel investing and to his current role of running a venture capital fund. As always, it was never a pre-planned linear journey and we dig through every part of it.

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