Founders meet investors who write checks.
A curated founder-investor night, matched by stage and thesis. 2027 dates go to the list first.
Text from MATCH HOUSE · 2:00 PM
MATCH HOUR starts now. Round 1 of 6: Table 14, Dana Ruiz, Partner at Northfield Ventures. Seed, B2B fintech.
On my way to 14
Illustration. Names and funds are invented.
Who's taken the stage
Who's in the room
Official Event
4,900+
Applications
~1,400
Attendees checked in
690+
Founders in the room
250+
Investors in the room
$6B+
Capital in the room
Austin, during SXSW
2,300+
Matches made
5
Cities
30+
Countries represented
Investors & funds
Checks $10K–$5M+
Pre-seed through growth
a16z · FirstMark · Antler · Hustle Fund · NextView Ventures · Red Bull Ventures · Capital Factory · Glasswing Ventures · Bosch Ventures · Mucker Capital · Gaingels · Manhattan Venture Partners · Conductive Ventures · Kauffman Fellows · MicroVentures · Flint Capital · Mercury Fund · DataTribe · Alpha Partners · Hanwha Asset Management · Dimensional Fund Advisors · 43North · CincyTech and more
Operators & companies
HubSpot · Circle · Justworks · Navan · Rho · beehiiv · nTop · Boardy · TelevisaUnivision · EisnerAmper · Holland & Knight · OpenAI · NVIDIA · USAA · H-E-B and more
Stories from the room
Watch full screenInvestor bet big on a stranger
The $100k angel surprise
Investor event feedback
Finding real capital
Founder spotlight · AviLabs
A wearable ultrasound for blood-flow monitoring
Curated, dense, and fast
Decision-maker density
Founders and the investors who write checks. No filler, no tourists.
Matched by stage & thesis
We hand-pick who's in the room and who you meet.
MATCH HOUR
Your 1:1s arrive by text, table number included. Six rounds back to back in San Francisco: 383 1:1s.
Matching and texts run on Boop
Which side of the table are you on?
Founders
Tell us your stage, raise and sector. Say yes to the investors picked for you; mutual yeses get a table at MATCH HOUR.
Investors
Tell us your stage, check size and thesis. We screen the founders; you say yes to the ones you want to meet.
Partners
Put your team in a room picked by stage and thesis. HubSpot for Startups, Deel and MongoDB partnered on San Francisco.
Get on the list for the next room
2027 dates go to this list first. Tell us who you are and where you'd come, and you hear first when applications open.