# Matthew Eisner

> Operator-investor based in San Francisco. Head of Growth at Zerg AI. Founder of Vang Advisory (consultancy, since 2017) and Vang Capital (pre-seed fund, since 2019). 12+ years of growth, product, and program design across SaaS, fintech, and crypto/web3.

## Key facts

- Current role: Head of Growth at Zerg AI (since 2026), building an AI-native productivity stack
- Career path: Incident Technologies → Hackster.io (acquired by Avnet) → Touch Surgery (acquired by Medtronic, nine figures) → Startupbootcamp → Vang Advisory + Vang Capital → NTT DATA UK → Algorand Europe Accelerator → Samba TV → Dinari → Zerg AI
- Notable outcomes at Dinari (2023–2025, Head of Product & Growth): scaled protocol TVL/AUM from $0 to $60m+ at 100%+ MoM; acquired 30 paid B2B API clients; grew community from <500 to 300k+ in <1 year on $0 paid
- Co-author of the *Many Labs* replication study in *Journal of Open Psychology Data* (1,400+ citations)
- Crypto-native operationally since 2018; first crypto exposure 2013

## Personal advisory offering

Outside Zerg, takes 1–2 selective engagements per quarter. Day rates: $2,000 startups, $2,500 blockchains and funds, $3,000 corporates. Discount on scopes >10 days. Open to performance alignment, advisory equity, or partial cash + equity for early-stage. Service buckets: Growth foundation, Conversion & UX, Data & analytics, BD & fundraising.

## Sister properties

- [Vang Advisory](https://vangadvisory.com): consultancy founded 2017, 85+ engagements across 6 continents
- [Vang Capital](https://vang.capital): pre-seed fund founded 2019, 32 portfolio companies, ~50% est. annual return on Fund I, $100m+ portfolio follow-on raised

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## Contact

- Email: matteisn@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matteisn
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