Matthew Eisner
Operator first. Allocator second.
Senior growth/product/GTM operator with 12+ years scaling startups, accelerators, and venture-stage investments. Currently Chief of Staff / Head of GTM at Zerg AI — building the AI-native Zstack of microproducts.
Parallel investor + accelerator-program track via Vang Capital (30+ investments) and Vang Advisory (60+ clients across 6 continents).
Currently
Zerg AI — Chief of Staff / Head of GTM. Building the AI-native Zstack: project boards, calendars, payments, mail, and more, all designed for AI agents and the humans who direct them. zergai.com
Vang Advisory + Vang Capital — founder. Growth/innovation consultancy and pre-seed/seed venture fund. 60+ clients (Algorand, Codility, Coinfirm, Siemens, citizenM, RELAYTO/), 30+ investments (Cledara, Knack, Brydg, RELAYTO/, Yummy), ~50% est. annual return on Fund I.
Selected operating roles
Dinari — Head of Product & Growth. First product/commercial hire at SEC-licensed RWA tokenization protocol. Built 4-FTE team, acquired first 30 paid B2B API clients (0 → 7-figure ARR), scaled protocol TVL/AUM from $0 to $60m+ at 100%+ MoM. Grew social/community from <500 to >300k in <1 year with $0 paid marketing. Partners: Arbitrum, Chainlink, CoinGecko, Metamask, Moonpay.
Samba TV — Senior Product Manager, Consumer. Strategy, development, and GTM for consumer + blockchain products. Partnerships with AWS, Disney, Coinbase, Sony, Consensys.
NTT DATA UK — Analytics Lead, R+D / New Ventures. Due diligence, modeling, and operations for 7-figure strategic investments in 8 startups. Subject-matter expert on metaverse, blockchain, web3, data, and AdTech.
Algorand Europe Accelerator — Program Director. Designed and ran Algorand’s first European accelerator. Cohort included Securitize and Folks Finance; raised $50m+ in follow-on funding.
Startupbootcamp Global — Global Head of Marketing & Data. Managed 20+ marketing staff across 8→20+ programs in 80+ countries. Tripled program applications. Built recruitment data infrastructure for 2,000+ startup investments. MarCom 2017 Gold Award.
Touch Surgery — Growth Lead. First marketing hire. Grew monthly downloads 15× (8k→130k). #1 in Medical Apps in 40+ country App Stores. Press across BBC, Bloomberg. Acquired by Medtronic for 9 figures (2020).
Hackster.io — Community Manager. First hire. Built marketing, growth, and analytics from zero; 0→50k developer community. Acquired by Avnet (2016).
Investment & program operations
- Vang Capital — founder. 30+ pre-seed/seed and crypto/DeFi investments. Notable: Cledara, Knack, Brydg, RELAYTO/, Yummy.
- Algorand Europe Accelerator — Program Director.
- NTT DATA New Ventures — 8 strategic investments led.
- Bridge Angel Investors — Head of Due Diligence.
- Qatar SportsTech — consultant for fund + program setup.
- TitanBlock — consultant for crypto fund operations.
- Oasis / ROSE Metamind Labs — program setup + advisor.
Research & selected work
- Many Labs Replication Project — co-author. Published in Journal of Open Psychology Data. 1,400+ citations. Google Scholar
- Startupbootcamp × RELAYTO/ Startup Ecosystem Report — MarCom 2017 Gold Award for marketing communication excellence.
- Mentorship + speaking — Google Launchpad, Base RWA Summit, Growthmentor, Seedstars, Start-Up Chile, CyLon, Tech Nation, Allia.
What people say
“Matthew’s analytics and product modelling expertise, coupled with his broad communication skills, are extremely effective. He is an essential contributor for our leadership team’s decision making through the robust, data-driven models he builds.”
Mark Masterson — CEO, ITO World
“Matthew rapidly built sustainable userbase growth and dramatically improved our core business KPIs. He was able to rapidly learn and improve upon digital marketing practices used in healthcare to drive collaborative marketing and tap into our university and medical-device partners’ budgets.”
Kim Parkins — VP Marketing & Partnerships, Touch Surgery
“Matthew managed multiple projects from concept to launch, and through a number of improvement cycles. His initiatives automated a huge amount of what had previously been manual labor, and enabled us to better understand how both marketing and investment initiatives were performing.”
Andy Shannon — Partner & Head of Global, Startupbootcamp
Get in touch
Email me at matteisn@gmail.com. I’m on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Based between San Francisco, Detroit, and London. USA / Swiss citizen with UK / EU / EEA / CH work permits.