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    Matchstick Ventures

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, United StatesFounded 2015

    Matchstick Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage software companies in emerging and underserved startup ecosystems across the North and Rockies regions of the United States.

    Their most common stage is seed (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $19.8M (across 58 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    52

    Fund Size

    $55M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    Natty Zola

    Natty Zola

    General Partner

    Nicole Glaros

    Nicole Glaros

    General Partner

    Ryan Broshar

    Ryan Broshar

    General Partner

    Shannon Shroyer

    Shannon Shroyer

    Head of Network and Operations

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    65 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Two Boxes logoTwo BoxesSeed$3.2MApr 2026
    Saile logoSailePre-Seed$2.2MJan 2026
    Mentium logoMentiumSeed$3.2MOct 2025
    Pageport logoPageportSeed$3.3MAug 2025
    Two Boxes logoTwo BoxesSeries A$5.3MSep 2024
    Liminal.ai logoLiminal.aiSeed$5MJun 2024
    Freeplay logoFreeplaySeed$3.3MNov 2023
    ZED logoZEDSeries A$10MMar 2023
    Zed logoZedSeries A$10MJan 2023
    Zed Industries logoZed IndustriesSeries A$10MJan 2023
    ZED logoZEDSeries A$10MJan 2023
    Milk Moovement logoMilk MoovementSeries A$20MJul 2022
    Benny logoBennyPre-Seed$1MJun 2022
    StackHawk logoStackHawkSeries A—May 2022
    StackHawk logoStackHawkSeries B$20.7MMay 2022
    Soona logoSoonaSeries B$35MJan 2022
    Spekit logoSpekitSeries B—Jan 2022
    Branch logoBranchSeries C$75MJan 2022
    Cometchat logoCometchatSeries A$10MDec 2021
    Onward Delivery logoOnward DeliverySeed$4.7MDec 2021
    Branch logoBranchSeries B$48MAug 2021
    Airspace Link logoAirspace LinkSeries A$10MMay 2021
    Treet logoTreetSeed$2.8MMay 2021
    Upsie logoUpsieSeries A$18.2MMay 2021
    Spekit logoSpekitSeries A$12.2MJan 2021
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    Last updated: 7 October 2026