Matt Ober brings an unusual background to venture capital, having progressed from Bloomberg to Head of Data Strategy at quantitative hedge fund WorldQuant to Chief Data Scientist at Third Point, giving him a full-stack view of market data across sell-side, buy-side, and venture investing. He applies a data value chain lens to assess startups, focusing on companies that create or monetize proprietary data sets and encouraging founders to instrument their businesses like trading strategies with clear hypotheses and feedback loops. Matt Ober brings an unusual background to venture capital, having progressed from Bloomberg to Head of Data Strategy at quantitative hedge fund WorldQuant to Chief Data Scientist at Third Point, giving him a full-stack view of market data across sell-side, buy-side, and venture investing. He applies a data value chain lens to assess startups, focusing on companies that create or monetize proprietary data sets and encouraging founders to instrument their businesses like trading strategies with clear hypotheses and feedback loops.