Matthew Cowan

Matthew Cowan is a co-founder of Bridgescale Partners and brings more than 15 years of investing experience.

Prior to forming Bridgescale, Matthew founded Pilot Holdings, which focused on investing and advising early-stage technology companies. Before Pilot Holdings, Matthew was the founding general partner of Bowman Capital's venture capital group, where he was responsible for leading investments in Arrowpoint Communications (sold to CISCO), Atheros, Broadbase (sold to Kana), epinions (sold to eBay), FastForward Networks (sold to Inktomi), Onebox (sold to Phone.com), ONI Systems (sold to Ciena), RemarQ (sold to Critical Path), SupportSoft, Sycamore Networks, and The Street.com.

Immediately prior to joining Bowman Capital, Matthew held several positions at Intel Corporation including Director of Corporate Business Development, where he managed Intel's Internet, media and international investment activity. Matthew worked on several acquisitions and divestitures, including Intel's sale of its PLD business to Altera. Matthew also participated in forming a joint venture with Creative Artists Agency to pursue investments in the emerging Internet category. During Matthew's tenure at Intel, he was responsible for investments in CMGI, CNET (sold to CBS), Geocities (sold to Yahoo!), Illustra (sold to Informix), iVillage (sold to NBC), Launch Media (sold to Yahoo!), Liquid Audio and Sportsline among others.

Matthew holds a BA in Political Science from Tufts University.