David Matthews has a background as an entrepreneur, a lead investor in emerging investment funds, and as a venture capitalist. As an entrepreneur, he launched several successful start-ups including Intelecon and Green Mountain Dallas. He brought the initial capital together to launch emerging private equity and venture funds such as Red River Ventures, Elm Creek Partners, Trailblazer Capital, and RevTech Ventures.  As a venture capitalist, Matthews has led investments in dozens of early-stage entrepreneurial ventures.  With RevTech, he created a mentor-led, seed fund that has funded over 50 emerging retail technology innovators to date and led to over $500 million of capital formation for retail concepts like Neighborhood Goods and retail technologies like Pensa Systems and Accel Robotics.  His successful exits include Green Mountain Energy (sold to NRG), PeopleAnswers (sold to Infor), Spawn Labs (sold to GameStop), and OrderMyGear (recapitalized by SGE).