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 led the formation of several 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 invested in dozens of early-stage companies.  With RevTech, he created a mentor-led seed fund that has invested in over 60 emerging retail technology innovators to date that has led to over $1 billion of capital formation for retail concepts like Pressed Roots and retail technologies like Pensa Systems and Crave Retail.  His successful exits include Green Mountain Energy (sold to NRG), PeopleAnswers (sold to Infor), Spawn Labs (sold to GameStop), and OrderMyGear (recapitalized by Susquehanna Growth). Investments leveraging AI include themes such as personalization, serendipity on demand, retail shelf intelligence, and meal planning.