Speakers

Matt joined Accel this year and is particularly interested in Cloud/SaaS, fintech and payments businesses. Prior to this, Matt and Accel started working together in 2011 as he co-founded GoCardless - an Accel portfolio company - alongside Hiroki Takeuchi and Tom Blomfield. With his co-founders, Matt built GoCardless into a world leading recurring payment company. He was pivotal in building the team, product and GTM from scratch. He remained an active board member until 2023, with the company processing $35B+ in payments annually across 30 countries on behalf of 85,000+ businesses.

Having built a B2B business, Matt wanted to learn about building for consumers and, having experienced the problem firsthand, set his sights on redefining home selling in the UK, founding Nested in 2016. The company offers a platform used by estate agents throughout the UK with market leading tech and a loved consumer brand.
 

Matt is also one of the UK’s most active and respected angel investors investing in companies including Cleo, Incident.io and Wayve.ai.