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Michael Matias

CEO @ Clarity ∙ Stanford AI and Unit 8200 ∙ Cybersecurity, AI and Human Psychology

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2023

    Clarity is a global leader in cybersecurity for deepfakes and social engineering. We protect organizations from AI-based media manipulations. Proudly backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Walden Catalyst, and other top VCs and angel investors. Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2024

  • Curious Scientist

    2020

    Platform bringing together the most innovative leaders to talk and inspire. We hosted conversations with more than 1000 innovators, and contributed more than 150 pieces to leading journals.

2022

  • Co-Founder | Creating trust with brilliant innovators

    2022

    Not-for-profit for co-creating solutions to the most pressing challenges and opportunities of our time. We bring together thought leaders to create strong alliances through deep connection and trust.

  • Angel Investor

    2020

    Early-stage investments in deep-tech startups making a positive impact on the world. Concentrating on AI and cybersecurity. Investments include: OxEye (acquired), Flow Security (acquired), Entitle (acquired) Walnut, Flytrex, Deepdub, Darrow, Haat, Frontegg, Neuralight, BeeHero, Indoor Robotics, Daily.dev, Anyword, Epic Cleantec, Speedata, Circles, Eleos Health, Tastewise, XTend, Tamnoon, Anecdotes, YO-FOOD, Gensyn, Liblab, Masterschool, Classiq.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Working with the leadership team to continue supporting the mission of leveraging technology and dialogue to promote peace between Jews and Palestinians.

  • Contributing Editor

    2020

    Writing news articles as part of the 20MinuteLeaders partnership with CTech by Calcalist, Israel's leading tech publications. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/home/0,7340,L-27991,00.html

2022 - 2023

  • Venture Fellow (NLP Research)

    2022 - 2023

    Working with the smartest people in the world on strategy surrounding Natural Language Processing. Spoiler: large language models are going to disrupt everything. Performed extensive ideation and founded my startup, Clarity.

2022 - 2023

  • Advisory Board

    2022 - 2023

    In fulfilling the child’s one true wish, Make-A-Wish strives to provide a powerful and life-changing experience, an experience that gives hope, strength and joy during the most difficult period of their young lives. In many places around the world, doctors treat wish fulfillment as an integral part of the child’s care.

2021 - 2022

  • Venture Partner

    2022 - 2022

    Dealflow, due diligence and fund strategy. Secret Chord became the lead investor for my own startup, Clarity.

  • Founding Principal Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Led the dealflow and due diligence process with my amazing partner Omri Krigel. Was a meaningful part in formulating the vision and mission of the organization. Very lucky to have had this experience.

2020 - 2022

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2022

    Meaningfully integrated with the amazing group of 350+ members, working closely with the management team (particularly Oded Hermoni and Nilesh Trivedi). A wonderful and fulfilling experience.

  • Senior Associate on the Investment Team

    2020 - 2021

    J-Ventures is a “Wo/Mensch empowered VC” bringing together 300 leading Investors ( 100 Serial founders, 100+ VCs, 100+ Fortune 500 Executives) as LPs. We call it a “Capitalist Kibbutz” with active involvement of our LPs who source, screen and help with our portfolio via connected capital. Based in Silicon Valley with investors from 15 communities - Tel Aviv, NYC, LA, London, Miami, Boston and more.