Matt Harris

Matt is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures in New York City and focuses on investments in financial technology. He sees a huge amount of revenue, profit and market cap shifting from regulated financial institutions to entrepreneur-led insurgents, across payments, lending, capital markets, real estate and insurance. More ramblings on these topics can be found at baincapitalventures.com/insights/?author=matt-harris. Matt started his investing career at Bain Capital private equity in 1995, having worked previously at Bain & Company, and attended Williams College, where he majored in political economy. 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. Outside of work, Matt enjoys spending any free moments with his wife, Jessica, and their six children. Matt 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 Innovation Advisory Council for the New York Federal Reserve. He is obsessed with military history, and some day will write a book connecting the strategy and tactics of insurgency with what he has learned about entrepreneurship.