Matthew Prince

Investments 8

Companies backed, as recorded by Dealroom. Highest company valuations first.

Timescale

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2018

$1B valuation (2022)Unicorn

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Merge

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2021

$330M valuation (2022)

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Wafer

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2026

$200M valuation (2026)

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Brale

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2023

$180M valuation (2025)

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Vantage

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2023

$126M valuation (2023)

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Nostra

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2024

$53.4M valuation (2024)

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Jam

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2020

$53.4M valuation (2024)

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Scorbit

1 recorded funding round · Latest in 2025

$30M valuation (2025)

Companies founded

Cloudflare

CEO · Founder · 2009 – present

$96.3B valuation (2026)Decacorn

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Unity WebGL Player

CEO · Founder · 2009 – present

Unspam Technologies

Founder · 2001 – 2019

Work history

Past roles by Dealroom records.

Highland Capital Partners

2009

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Leap Fund

Entrepreneur-in-Residence · 2009

University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

Adjunct Professor of Law · 2003 – 2012

Park City Mountain Resort

Ski Instructor · 1996 – 1997

$182.5M valuation (2014)

Project Honey Pot

Co-Creator

Education

Harvard Business School

MBA · Business · 2007 – 2009

University of Chicago Law School

Law · 1997 – 2000

Trinity College-Hartford

Bachelor · Computer Science · until 1996

The University of Chicago

Law · until 2000

Talks 2

Interviews and talks Dealroom has written up, with the key moments.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: the PHP remote-code-execution attack wave, now millions of attacks per minute

TBPN on YouTube · Oct 2026

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Cloudflare CEO: agent traffic will hit 1,000× human traffic — and the web needs a new runtime for it

TBPN interview · Oct 2026

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