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What does Justin Mateen invest in?
Justin Mateen invests most often at Seed and Series A (79% of the rounds on record).
Justin Mateen highlights
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2 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 79% of its rounds
What they do
Justin Mateen: investor and a founder of Tinder backing ambitious, non-consensus founders. #1 US seed investor (Business Insider, 2021 and 2022).From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Seed
- Based in
- United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first19 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- May
- 2025
2 rounds
- Dec
- Mar
- 2019
5 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Feb
- 2018
1 round
- Nov
- 2017
1 round
- Feb
- 2016
1 round
- Jan
- 2015
1 round
- May
- 2014
6 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Jan
- 2012
1 round
- Apr
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 1 person at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
21 of 28 we have independently watched raise
Alto PharmacyBlank StreetCurative HealthDeelGeniusHadrianHome ChefKalshiKoviLast EnergyOwnerRadiant NuclearRegentSlashSpeakStoke SpaceSubQuadraticThe Boring CompanyVardaVerse MedicalWhopEmerald CloudHUT 8Justin Mateen acquiresLong WallRelaytoSubcriticalTinder
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.