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Matt Rothman

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Managing Partner, hemispherecapital.com

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hemispherecapital.com
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Managing Partner
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Managing partner
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Record updated 1 October 2026

About

He is on the board of directors of Total Performance Data in London and an advisor to Satisfi Labs in New York. He was CEO of Softbank Emerging Markets, a $200 million venture fund, part of the Softbank Capital International family of funds, from 2000 to 2002. From a San Francisco headquarters, he launched and operated four regional offices in Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul, Warsaw and Johannesburg focused on growth opportunity investments. Prior to Softbank, Matt was a strategic advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-ups aimed at capital formation, business development and alliances. Until 1999, Matt was General Manager of Sony Online Ventures, and Senior Vice President of Sony New Technologies, the strategic development arm of Sony Corporation of America.

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