Matt Harris
Managing General Partner and Co-founder, Village Ventures
mharris@villageventures.com
As co-founder and Managing General Partner of Village Ventures, Matt provides Borealis access to a nationwide network of early-stage venture capital funds focused on emerging technology centers. His deep understanding of financial services broadens our scope significantly. He has worked extensively with Borealis since our inception.
Harris began his career as a consultant at Bain & Company, Boston. In 1995, he signed on as an associate with Bain Capital. At Bain Capital, Harris’ most notable transactions included the $1.1 billion purchase and subsequent sale of a credit-reporting agency, and the $90 million purchase of a medical products distributor.
Harris left Bain Capital in 1997 to become the founding Managing Director of The Berkshires Capital Investors, a venture capital fund associated with Williams College. Under Harris’ leadership, BCI’s first fund of $5 million invested in 12 companies, with eight successful exits to date. The BCI organization, now a Village Ventures affiliate, has gone on to raise an additional $60 million.
Harris graduated from Williams College in 1994, and now lives in New York, NY and Williamstown, MA. He is active in the business community of Williamstown and Berkshire County, and is involved in many civic organizations. He has served as Chair of Mass Competitive Council for Berkshire County, an economic development initiative sponsored by the governor of Massachusetts, and serves as a Board Member of the John Adams Innovation Institute and a member of the Renewable Energy Industry Support Advisory Board.
Harris is a member of the NYC Seed Advisory Board, a Trustee for the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, President of the Board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and a founding Board Member and Treasurer of Camp Starfish, a camp for troubled and disadvantaged youth outside Boston, MA. He also sits on numerous corporate boards, including Bluetarp Financial, Swift Financial, Vico Software, OnDeck Capital and TxVia, Inc.
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