Who We Are
Matt Straz
Three-time Founder & CEO, Matt leads Bennie, the fastest growing employee benefits platform for small and mid-sized companies. Previously, Matt founded Namely, the HR/Payroll platform that revolutionized HR for mid-sized companies.
Michael Manne
As a NYC-based growth executive, Michael has spent most of his career building and leading revenue teams in technology companies of all sizes. Michael has led go-to-market functions at notable cloud companies across HR, Finance, and Real Estate.
An operational advantage.
As founders ourselves, we have have faced and overcome challenges while building our own companies. Let us share our experience and network with you and help build your own great startup.
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With decades of seed and growth experience across HR, Finance, Real Estate, and Advertising, we have raised over $200M in funding from top VC firms for our own startups and invested in more than 25 companies.
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We are experienced executives with strong leadership, growth, fundraising and operational expertise. We work exceptionally well with next-generation founders and their teams who proactively seek us out for strategy and advice.
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Our experience building high-performing companies and teams has helped us develop a broad talent network across every major discipline: Sales, Marketing, Engineering, IT, Finance, Operations, Product, and more.
