Nodestacker

Life is about meeting all the nodes and getting them to help you. Can you catch them all?

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

wtf is this a replacement for YC?

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

100 unique firms and 15 angels have taken intros to MatCap portfolio companies so far in 2026. Thankful to my own investors for the chance to pioneer a new category in the funding stack. Here's to the next 100!

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

TechCrunch Disrupt of the Southwest.....

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

Startup conference in AZ, loading up....

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

There are lots of fundraising advisors out there. There is only one who works for equity, only. Only one who never charges fees. Only one who will never lower your runway to fund their existence. Only one who will will grind for years for no "ask". There is only one MatCap.

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

95 VC firms and 15 angels took intros to MatCap founders in 2026 so far. Let's double that over the next 4 months :)

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

However good you think I am, you're wrong.

[Danny @itsdannyyt]

Truly wild, after I clocked off last night with 25k downloads - literally not even 12 hours later and already hit 30k downloads. 🚀

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

@itsdannyyt

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

I run a social capital (SC) bank. When I make an intro request that gets denied, I lose a little SC. Every time I make an intro that goes well, I get a deposit of SC. Every time someone I make intros for does good things in the world, I get a bigger deposit. Goal = don't default.

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

Shoot your shoot, kids.

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

If you're an interesting outsider, shoot me a DM. Would love to meet you.

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

Looking to add a few more to this list of firms who take intros from MatCap. Any VC looking to get some alpha? I live in Arizona, so you can be sure you are gunna get some things you aren't already seeing. If it's good enough for these firms, it's probably good enough for you :)

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

Name the more iconic quartet

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

Damn

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

First three AMAs announced for the Fall Fundraising Season for MatCap. Who will be #4?

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

We need open weight models yes, but also private ways to use them

Without private inference and private agentic operating systems

Open weight inference has the exact same spyware potential for the infra provider as closed weight models

Open source and ai privacy must be tightly coupled

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

TL;DR - looks like lots of claude artificts containing sensitive data are now easily discoverable

Yet another reason to move your AI work to a private system

ESPECIALLY for companies

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

Written December 2025. Go @Covenantlabsai. #PortCo

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

brb, coming for YC's ass.

[Mat Sherman @Mat_Sherman]

It takes 15 steps to take a founder from accepted into MatCap to legally onboarding them. Before today, that onboarding took 1-2 months and involved a third party. Thanks to Claude, @goodwinlaw, and a lot of coffee, it takes less than 30 minutes now. God bless.

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

This guy gets it.

[Garrett Menichini @gmenichini]

When grown-ups buy a house, there’s SO much homework. Like a whole mountain of papers, and everybody has to sign stuff and call people a hundred times and it takes forever and ever.

But Uncle Garrett built a robot friend who does ALL the homework! The robot never gets sleepy and never forgets anything, not even once.

So now the people just get their keys and go live in their house. The end.

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

@Mat_Sherman wtf?

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

Tell us how your 3 year old cousin would explain what your startup does.

[Nodestacker @nodestacker_]

@alexabelonix