Tips on building your company, pivoting, and raising capital

03/16/22 • 34 min

Learn more about entrepreneurship and how to know you've hit traction with your startup from Active Capital Founder and CEO, Pat Matthews.
Pat is the founder and general partner of Active Capital, a venture firm focused on leading seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies outside of Silicon Valley. Prior to Active Capital, Pat was an entrepreneur, operator, and angel investor. Pat’s career started in 1999 when he dropped out of Virginia Tech to start a dot-com with some of his best friends and college roommates. After the dot-com bubble burst, Pat and his team persevered through years of economic downturn before creating Webmail.us, a $10 million dollar software company that was recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine. In 2007, Webmail.us was acquired by Rackspace where Pat worked as an executive on the senior leadership team until 2013. Pat has personally invested in nearly 100 startups and is an active board member of the Virginia Tech Apex Center for Entrepreneurship, Venture for America in San Antonio, and several Active Capital portfolio companies.
Host: Brett Malone
Editor and Producer: Becca Halm

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Walt Disney Imagineering: https://sites.disney.com/waltdisneyimagineering/
Disney: https://www.disney.com/
Disney Accelerator: https://disneyaccelerator.com/
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