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Matt Roberts | Analyst, IT Venture Fund at BDC
He made his first angel investment at 17.
Words to live byYou're never the smartest person in the room and if you think you are, you're in the wrong room.
More information about Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts is an Analyst in the IT Fund at BDC Venture Capital. He has worked as an investment and business development advisor for several start-ups, Private Equity and Angel Investment Groups in Canada. Before that he was an Analyst at Venture Capital firm Wesley Clover, best known as billionaire entrepreneur Terry Matthews investment group. He also co- founded and was CEO at his own startup, JohnnyVoIP, a company that developed a web based VoIP application platform. Previous to this he was the Business Development lead at an Ottawa based startup investor (SeedCapital.ca) and at eighteen was the youngest Project Coordinator (Manager) at Newbridge Networks working in the LMDS wireless group (now part of Alcatel Canada).
In addition to his Master of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at UWO, Matt holds a Bachelors of Arts (Honours) in Economics and History from Carleton University.