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Thanks for subscribing! My name is Matt Brown. I’m a partner at Matrix, where I invest in and help early-stage fintech and vertical software startups. Matrix is an early-stage VC that leads pre-seed to Series As from an $800M fund across AI, developer tools and infra, fintech, B2B software, healthcare, and more. If you're building something interesting in fintech or vertical software, I'd love to chat: [email protected]

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