Matt Eggers ^{Ultimate Decision-Maker}

Managing Director at Prelude Ventures

Current Job Duration: 2 yrs 7 mos (until March 2026)

HEADLINE:
Climatetech VC at Prelude Ventures

PERSONAL SUMMARY:
"If you do not work on important problems, you will not do important work.” I invest in outstanding climatetech companies.

I enjoyed every minute of 15 years in leadership roles in climatetech (and biotech) businesses spanning VP Sales at Tesla, VP Operations at Sunrun, GM Energy at Yardi Systems, and launch PM for a new product at Genentech. But it's not my personality to do one thing. As a partner to founders, I get to be involved in many exciting moments of a company's journey. I love working with founders to help them build enduring, iconic, and profitable companies that will drive massive improvement in human civilization and for all life on earth.

I invest in climatetech because I'm passionate about not just disrupting the world, but improving it. I believe climate change is the greatest challenge human civilization has faced, that the struggle to control fossil fuels is a major obstacle to worldwide peace and prosperity, and that environmental degradation is a massive drag on human health and well-being. I think harnessing the power of capitalism will lead to the most effective solutions so I approach these problems through business and technology. I also know that solving climate will have innumerable "side effects" which will improve life in vast and powerful ways...while nurturing the planet we all love and need.

Trivia: When I was kid, my phone number was just 4 digits.

*The quote above is from Richard Hamming. My background profile image is Professor Ed Hawkins' warming stripes covering 1850 (left side of graphic) to 2023 (right side). Progression from blue (cooler than normal) to red (warmer than normal) annual temperature averages indicates long-term increase of average global temperature caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Follow me on twitter at @eggersmatt

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EDUCATION:
School: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Degree: MBA
Activities: None

School: Duke University
Degree: B.S., Molecular Biology
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School: Nevada High School
Degree: None
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