Nathan Maton
Managing Director at Basal Capital, a pre-seed/seed VC fund backing repeat founders in FinTech and AI; exited blockchain founder and former roles at Google, Khan Academy, Omada Health, and IDEO.
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Jun 12, 2026
Nathan MatonGUEST
Yeah, I'll tell you about one of them, Hyperspell, this AI company you helped assess, so you know a little bit about it already.
Nathan MatonGUEST
So you already have to like it because it's the same name as you for the founder.
Nathan MatonGUEST
But the other fun thing for me is I would only do Pre-Seed if I could easily get conviction on founders like that.
Nathan MatonGUEST
But the challenge is in 30 minutes, we haven't even gotten into the whole team side and the people side of what I care about, which goes extremely deep.
Nathan MatonGUEST
Um, but on the, on the sort of founder side, it's hard to get conviction in a short meeting.