Investment Team at ex/ante
Check size: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Matt Hawes invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identity, civil society and resilient infrastructure.
Explain the threat to human agency, the technical architecture, why policy and market timing align, trust and safety considerations, and the path to a large durable business.
Technical founders building privacy-preserving, secure and agency-enhancing products at the intersection of technology, policy and civil society.
No formal pass list is public. Products that weaken user agency, privacy or resilience appear contrary to the firm's stated mission.