# Matin Movassate

> Matin Movassate co-founded Heap with Ravi Parikh in 2013 after experiencing the delays involved in answering product analytics questions at Facebook. He led the company as its founding CEO for eight years, developing an approach based on automatic interaction capture and retroactive analysis, before handing the CEO role to Ken Fine and becoming chairman in 2021. Heap was acquired by Contentsquare in 2023 and its capabilities are now integrated into Contentsquare Product Analytics.

- **Role:** Co-founder of Heap; founding CEO (2013-2021), appointed chairman in 2021
- **Organizations:** Heap, Facebook, Google, Mozilla, Stanford University, Y Combinator
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Economics, Stanford University, Master’s program; left without completing, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Heap and served as its founding CEO for eight years., Helped establish Heap’s automatic capture and retroactive analytics approach., Led Heap during the development of the Event Visualizer and data warehouse connectivity.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Co-authored a Stanford course paper on sentiment analysis of Twitter updates with Ravi Parikh; completed a software engineering internship at Mozilla.
- **2010** — Associate product management internship at Google.
- **2011** — Completed Stanford undergraduate studies and joined Facebook as a product manager.
- **2013** — Co-founded Heap with Ravi Parikh; participated in Y Combinator Winter 2013.
- **2014** — Announced Heap’s Event Visualizer, enabling point-and-click event definition.
- **2018** — Heap reported 100 employees in an October YC founders’ Q&A.
- **2019** — Heap raised a $55 million Series C and appointed Ken Fine president and COO.
- **2021** — Transitioned to chairman as Ken Fine became CEO, effective April 2.
- **2023** — Contentsquare acquired Heap.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Heap and served as its founding CEO for eight years.
- Helped establish Heap’s automatic capture and retroactive analytics approach.
- Led Heap during the development of the Event Visualizer and data warehouse connectivity.
- Heap ranked first among US small and medium businesses in Glassdoor’s 2019 Employees’ Choice Awards during his CEO tenure.
- Planned the CEO succession from himself to Ken Fine.

## Latest updates

- **2023-09** — Contentsquare announced a definitive agreement to acquire Heap; the acquisition was subsequently completed.
- **2021-12** — Heap announced a $110 million Series D at a $960 million valuation under CEO Ken Fine, following Movassate’s transition to chairman.
- **2021-04** — Ken Fine succeeded Movassate as CEO effective April 2; Movassate assumed the chairman role.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matin-movassate-29494723
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/matinm1
- GitHub: https://github.com/matinm

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