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Matthew Bellows Email & Phone Number
Partner
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Grit Capital Partners
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@grit.vc
1 phone found area 855
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Partner
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Matthew Bellows is listed as Partner at Grit Capital Partners, a company with 13 employees, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at grit.vc, phone signal with area code 855, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Matthew Bellows.
Matthew Bellows previously worked as General Partner at Grit Capital Partners and Vice President Of Business Development at American Express. Matthew Bellows holds Mba, Entrepreneurial & High Tech Marketing from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School Of Business.
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About Matthew Bellows
Matthew is a General Partner at Grit Capital (www.grit.vc), investing in early stage fintech, martech and media companies. Previously he was a VP of Business Development at American Express, which acquired his third startup, BodesWell, in June of 2022. Before that, he founded Yesware (acquired by Vendasta) and worked in executive roles in software startups, including Vivox (acquired by Unity) and Floodgate (acquired by Zynga). His first startup, WGR Media, was acquired by CNET Networks in 2004. He earned his B.A from Naropa University and his M.B.A. magna cum laude from The Olin School for Business at Babson College.Matthew has practiced meditation for more than 25 years. He currently teaches mindfulness, compassion and wisdom practices at mindfulaware.com and Natural Dharma Fellowship.
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Grit Capital Partners
15 roles
Matthew Bellows work experience
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General Partner
CurrentInvesting in early stage fintech, martech, and media companies. Helping them grow.
Feb 2024 - Present
Vice President Of Business Development
Integrated the BodesWell team and product into American Express. Learned a bit about running a bank. Was constantly impressed with how customer-centric this company is.
Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
Co-Founder & Ceo
BodesWell.io created self-service financial planning software so financial institutions can extend the benefits of planning to the 86 million US households who don’t already have a financial advisor. Here's an eight minute demo - https://vimeo.com/626626273/add5b44077 American Express purchased BodesWell in June of 2022. Read more on that here.
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
Member Of The Board Of Advisors
The Mindfulness and Leadership organization at MIT's Sloan School of Business was creating a space for the next generation of principled business leaders to explore the intersection between mindfulness and leadership.https://sloangroups.mit.edu/mindfulnessleadership/home/
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Founder & Chairman Of The Board
After eight years serving as CEO, I supported the growth of Yesware as Chairman of the Board through our acquisition by Vendasta.
Jul 2018 - May 2022
Founder & Ceo
Yesware helps sales people and sales managers make more money. Our service provides email analytics, Salesforce sync, reminders, smart templates, and more. Over 60,000 salespeople at companies like Yelp, eBay, Acquia, Groupon, Salesforce.com and Zendesk use Yesware every day. Our company has raised a total of $50m from Battery Ventures, Google Ventures.
Jul 2010 - Jun 2018
Vice President Of Sales
* Served on executive team as we grew from 7 million to 27 million users.* Helped close third round of financing from IDG, Benchmark, Canaan Partners* Sold to Unity in Jan 2019
Apr 2008 - Jul 2010
General Manager
- Responsible for sales, marketing and operations of leading videogame developer
- Signed deals with Yahoo!, Disney, Electronic Arts, Nokia, Sony BMG, and Microsoft
- Spoke at GDC, SXSW, E3, CTIA, Harvard and MIT
- Helped sell Floodgate to Zynga - March 2011
Apr 2005 - Mar 2008
Vp Mobile Entertainment
- Integrated my team into CNET after sale of WGR Media
- Launched GameSpot Mobile, the most popular mobile games resource on the web
- Signed content distribution deals with Verizon Wireless, Cingular, AOL and MSN
- Served as co-chairman for the Game Developer Conference Mobile program (recording of one talk here: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1013277/World-Tour-of-Mobile-Innovations)
Apr 2004 - Apr 2005
Co-Founder, Ceo
Wgr Media, Inc.
- Co-founded first media company covering mobile entertainment
- Closed deals with Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, Qualcomm, Nokia, Yahoo! and many others.
- Sold WGR Media to CNET Networks in 2004.
Aug 2001 - Apr 2004
Director Of Business Development
Engage Inc.
- Managed partnerships with over 4,000 websites worth $68 million in annualized revenue
- Led seven person team that built company’s fastest growing media network
- Developed business specifications for email advertising network
Sep 1999 - Aug 2001
Vice President Of Sales And Marketing
- Sold email services to local companies
- Co-authored business plan, presented to numerous venture capitalists
- Helped sell InterStep to Flycast in June. Flycast sold to CMGI/Engage in September.
May 1999 - Sep 1999
Sole Proprietor
Matt Bellows Consulting
- Teloquent Communications: Developed PBX market entry strategy
- PictureTel: Created opportunity analysis, product definition and pricing for new product
- Genesys Telecommmunications: Designed and conducted technical training
Mar 1997 - May 1999
Manager, Educational Services
Voice Control Systems
- Started and ran developer training for speech recognition company
Feb 1995 - Mar 1997
5 education records
Matthew Bellows education
Mba, Entrepreneurial & High Tech Marketing
Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School Of Business
Tibetan, Sanskrit
Harvard University
Ba, Buddhist And Western Psychology, Buddhist Studies
Naropa University
Writing, Environmental Studies
Brown University
Education record
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Matthew Bellows works for Grit Capital Partners.
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Matthew Bellows is listed as Partner at Grit Capital Partners.
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Matthew Bellows is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States while working with Grit Capital Partners.
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Matthew Bellows has worked for Grit Capital Partners, American Express, Bodeswell, Mit Sloan School Of Management Mindfulness & Leadership Group, and Yesware.
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Matthew Bellows holds Mba, Entrepreneurial & High Tech Marketing from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School Of Business.
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