Matt Schaar is operating partner at Accion Ventures, where he leads the Portfolio Engagement and Platform function, giving fintech startups across Accion's global portfolio hands-on strategic and operational support and sharing what the team learns with the wider fintech community. Before Accion he held product, marketing and customer success leadership roles at Salesforce and GitHub, helping steer GitHub toward its $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft, and advised companies as an independent consultant and with Boston Consulting Group. He writes about venture and fintech at Skeptocapital and holds a bachelor's in aerospace engineering, an MBA and a master's in public policy from the University of Michigan.
Matt Schaar is operating partner at Accion Ventures, where he leads the Portfolio Engagement and Platform function, giving fintech startups across Accion's global portfolio hands-on strategic and operational support and sharing what the team learns with the wider fintech community. Before Accion he held product, marketing and customer success leadership roles at Salesforce and GitHub, helping steer GitHub toward its $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft, and advised companies as an independent consultant and with Boston Consulting Group. He writes about venture and fintech at Skeptocapital and holds a bachelor's in aerospace engineering, an MBA and a master's in public policy from the University of Michigan.
Career
Matt Schaar studied at University of Michigan (BSE Aerospace Engineering, MBA, MPP).
