MFP at a Glance

MFP Ventures (formerly Mobile Financial Partners) catalyzes great outcomes for its high-growth portfolio companies. Focusing on companies leveraging AI-driven software and cloud resources, MFP seeks opportunities where converging technology developments enable disruption of business norms. With enduring relationships and broad experience across communications, finance and software, MFP engages “hands-on” to harness these opportunities for its companies and partners.

Founder at a Glance

Harry Hopper

30+ years as venture investor and entrepreneur in Communications/Media/Technology
Forbes Midas List (Forbes top 100 venture capitalist)
15 years (5 Funds) as a Managing Partner at Columbia Capital ($2 Billion+ CMT Venture/PE Fund)
Founder | Co-Founder of 5 companies
Past and Current Boards:
- Public - Metro PCS (PCS - now TMUS); Equinix (EQIX), Pegasus (PGTV), DSL Broadband (DSLN);
- Private - 11 Media and IT Service and Software companies, 10 mobile operators,
President of boutique investment bank
Corporate finance and M&A lawyer

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MFP Endorsements

Carlos Anchia

CEO, PLainsight

“Not only has Harry’s experience and advice been incredibly valuable during Plainsight’s intense period of execution-driven growth, he has leaned in on business development and been a real partner driving the business forward. MFP shares our passion to build Plainsight by over-delivering for our enterprise customers. Yes, the expected support on all financial matters is there, but this is partnering at another level.”

Bio: Carlos Anchia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Plainsight, where he leads the team bringing transformative computer vision into the enterprise, cultivating partnerships across industries, and executing on the most complex and innovative vision AI applications in production. Prior to joining Plainsight, Carlos was a team leader for the global IoT platform at Insteon where he also launched industry first Smart Home experiences. Carlos also drove technical excellence across a large multi-discipline software team at Distillery, and was the CTO for CURAGO,

Matt Theurer

CEO, Co-founder, Hyperspectral.Ai

“Having worked closely with two MFP portfolio companies, I’m delighted to now be CEO and a Co-Founder of HyperSpectral.ai. MFP has front-line experience with networks, the hyperscale ecosystem, edge devices and the huge potential for applying AI to under-exploited data types and streams. The collaboration and direct contribution to our roadmap and execution has been fantastic and top tier.”

Bio: Matt Theurer is a co-founder of HyperSpectral.ai where he initially served as CTO (partnering closely with Harry Hopper, who served as acting-CEO) and then became CEO. Matt is a global technology executive and was a co-founder of the enterprise-class cloud company, Virtustream. Matt and his fellow co-founders sold Virtustream to EMC for $1.2Bn. Matt stayed with Virtustream for several years as a technology leader dealing with serial integration processes with EMC and then EMC’s acquiror, Dell Technologies. Virtustream remained a major go-to-market brand and business at Dell before he left to complete his EMBA at MIT. Matt has extensive technology start-up experience where he innovatively and successfully applied cutting edge technology to solve real world business problems.