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Mat Munro

Two times founder, three times exec, now in VC - Investing in AI and Climate Tech at Octopus Ventures

London, England

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2022

    Investing in Deep Tech startups at Octopus Ventures. Helping founders create the future of AI and Climate Tech.

  • Newton Venture Fellow

    2023

2021 - 2022

  • Director Of Product

    2021 - 2022

2019 - 2022

  • Founder

    2019 - 2022

    Angel investor collective - small cap Angels get to spread their bets and partner startups gain access to a range of domain experts, whilst keeping their cap tables clean.

2015 - 2020

  • Chief Product Officer

    2018 - 2020

    Conversational AI - Exited to Verint. Responsible for a global team of 65 across Product, Design, Data Science, Engineering, and InfoSec. We followed industry best practices as we executed against the company's vision of a more connected future for brands and their customers.

  • VP of Product

    2016 - 2018

    Recruited and built out the Product and Design function. Responsible for setting and communicating product strategy and direction and the day-to-day running of the Design and Product functions.

  • Product Director

    2015 - 2016

    Intrepreneur based role - overseeing the creation and ongoing development of this internal startup project in partnership with Google.

2013 - 2015

  • Product Director (R&D)

    2013 - 2015

    Exited to Neilsen. We built tools to evaluate personality traits based on image selection and conversational interactions and combined this with secondary data sets to build fintech and martech products. I ran a specialist cross-functional R&D team in the rapid exploration and development of technical prototypes aligned with the company's overarching mission to marry personality psychology with technology.

2012 - 2013

  • Co-founder and CEO

    2012 - 2013

    Pitched an idea at a hackthon. Won the hackathon. Raised some funding and launched some apps. Grew to 10,000 DAUs within 4 months. Failed to secure further funding so started an agency to bring in revenue and allow us to keep working on the platform. Wound up the business when everyone had finished maxing out their credit cards.

2011 - 2012

  • Product Manager

    2011 - 2012

2011 - 2011

  • Product Manager

    2011 - 2011

2010 - 2011

  • Founder

    2010 - 2011

    Tried to make Pokemon Go. Without the Pokemon IP. Before phones had 4G. Failed.