# Matt Cote

> Matt Cote is the Technical Lead at Forum Ventures, New York's leading pre-seed B2B SaaS venture studio. A seasoned software engineer with a career spanning IBM, Kira Systems (legal AI), and Zuva, Matt brings deep technical leadership to one of the most active early-stage startup ecosystems in North America, helping founders go from zero to product in record time.

- **Role:** Technical Lead at Forum Ventures
- **Organizations:** Forum Ventures, Zuva, Kira Systems, IBM, Intelex, Canadian Tire
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Computer Science Technology, Sheridan College, Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Certificate), Coursera
- **Known for:** Technical Lead at one of North America's most active pre-seed B2B SaaS venture studios, Progressed through multiple levels of technical leadership from developer to manager across multiple companies, Contributed to the legal AI space at Kira Systems before its acquisition by Litera

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Programmer Analyst at Canadian Tire, supporting end-user computing applications
- **Mid career** — Joined Intelex as Issue Management Team Web Developer, later promoted to Online Communities Web Developer and then Online Communities Technical Lead
- **Mid career** — Advisory Software Developer and Staff Software Developer at IBM
- **Later career** — Senior Software Developer at Kira Systems, legal AI and machine learning contract analysis company
- **Later career** — Manager, Software Development at Zuva (the AI document analysis spinout from Kira Systems)
- **Current** — Technical Lead at Forum Ventures, NYC's pre-seed B2B SaaS venture studio and fund

## Achievements

- Technical Lead at one of North America's most active pre-seed B2B SaaS venture studios
- Progressed through multiple levels of technical leadership from developer to manager across multiple companies
- Contributed to the legal AI space at Kira Systems before its acquisition by Litera
- Earned Neural Networks and Deep Learning certification from Coursera, demonstrating commitment to AI/ML expertise
- Part of Forum Ventures team that has invested in 200+ early-stage startups

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Serving as Technical Lead at Forum Ventures, supporting portfolio companies and studio ventures with engineering leadership

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cotematt/

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Last updated: 2026-05-06