Matt Harris
Matt Harris has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2015. For more than 30 years, Matt has been investing in visionary fintech founders and their businesses in the areas of payments, lending, capital markets, insurance and real estate. He is particularly interested in backing companies building next-generation embedded fintech tools that will challenge and compete with traditional banking, lending and B2B payments through increased transparency and security.
Matt started his investing career at Bain Capital private equity in 1995, having worked previously at Bain & Company. In 2000, Matt founded Village Ventures, which he ran for 12 years and where he focused on early stage fintech investing. In 2012, he rejoined Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). He has served as a member of the board of directors of AvidXchange Holdings, Inc., (NASDAQ: AVDX) a provider of accounts payable automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers, since July 2015. He also served as a member of the board of directors of Billtrust, a provider of cloud-based software and integrated payment processing solutions, until December 2022. He currently serves on the board of directors for Finix, Justworks, Moov, Onbe, Orum and others.
Matt attended Williams College and serves as a Trustee of Williams College as well as a member of the College’s Investment Committee and co-head of the Non-Marketable Assets Committee, and is the former Chair of the Board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is also a board member at Endeavor, an organization leading the global movement to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, as well as the boards of the Partnership Fund for New York City and the Innovation Advisory Council for the New York Federal Reserve.