Matt Cohler (born March 27, 1977) is an Americanventure capitalist. He worked as Vice President of Product Management forFacebook until June 2008[1] and was formerly a general partner atBenchmark.[2][3][4] Cohler has been named to theForbesMidas List of top technology investors[5] and in 2019 was named to theNew York Times andCB Insights list of top 10 venture capital investors.[6] Cohler made the Forbes 'America's 40 Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40' list in 2015.[7]
Early in his career, Cohler worked inChina and was a management consultant atMcKinsey & Company.[9] He befriendedReid Hoffman and went on to become a founding member of Hoffman's startupLinkedIn.[10] Cohler was vice president and general manager at LinkedIn and was consideredCEO Hoffman's right-hand man.[11]
Cohler was one of the first five employees hired at Facebook.[1] He was Facebook's vice president of product management and worked with the team during many of its critical growth phases. He continued to act as a"special advisor" to Facebook CEOMark Zuckerberg.[12] In 2008, he left Facebook and became the youngest general partner atBenchmark.[9]
Cohler sits on the boards of Asana, Quora,[21] ResearchGate,[22] and 1stdibs.
In 2018, it was announced that Cohler would "step back" from Benchmark and not be a part of their next fund. Although he departed the Benchmark fund, he was expected to continue to hold his board seats, including at Uber.[23][2] Cohler later left the Uber board in July 2019, at the same time as Arianna Huffington.[24]
In April 2013, a lobbying group calledFWD.us (aimed at lobbying forimmigration reform and improvements to education) was launched, with Cohler listed as one of the founders.[30]
