# Matt Milford

> Matt Milford, publicly listed as Matthew Milford on LinkedIn, co-founded Foresight Mental Health with fellow UC Berkeley student Doug Hapeman and formerly served as its co-CEO. Evio now identifies him as the founder and CEO of venture studio Arche and an operating partner responsible for deal and founder assessment and post-investment mentoring. His public career includes early entrepreneurship training in Nice, returning to Berkeley as a panelist, and a founding-team connection to Third Space.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Arche; Operating Partner at Evio Venture Capital
- **Organizations:** Foresight Mental Health, Arche, Evio Venture Capital, Third Space
- **Education:** University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering, European Innovation Academy, Nice, through UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
- **Known for:** Co-founded Foresight with Doug Hapeman., Evio credits his tenure as Foresight co-CEO with reaching more than $50 million in annual recurring revenue and raising more than $100 million in venture capital; these are cumulative biographical claims, not independently audited figures., Founded venture studio Arche and serves as its CEO, according to Evio.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — LinkedIn lists an iGEM Gold Medal for Best Community Lab Project, awarded in October.
- **2015-2017** — Attended UC Berkeley College of Engineering; met Doug Hapeman through computer science classes.
- **2016** — Attended the European Innovation Academy in Nice; Foresight predecessor Genetic Foresight was founded in 2016, according to July 2022 reporting.
- **2019** — Returned to Berkeley as a panelist at the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp; an October university profile documented leaving college to build Foresight.
- **2020** — Appeared with Doug Hapeman on episode 204 of The Meb Faber Show, published March 4.
- **2022** — Greg Serrao replaced Milford and Hapeman as CEO in May amid a restructuring; the founders moved into other executive roles.
- **2023** — Partnered with Saki Georgiadis as Arche launched, according to Georgiadis’s October 2025 retrospective.
- **2026** — Zeal Capital Partners described Milford as part of Third Space’s founding team in its March 5 investment announcement.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Foresight with Doug Hapeman.
- Evio credits his tenure as Foresight co-CEO with reaching more than $50 million in annual recurring revenue and raising more than $100 million in venture capital; these are cumulative biographical claims, not independently audited figures.
- Founded venture studio Arche and serves as its CEO, according to Evio.
- Returned to the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp as an entrepreneur panelist in 2019.
- LinkedIn lists an October 2014 iGEM Gold Medal for Best Community Lab Project.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Zeal’s March 5 investment announcement for Third Space names Milford as part of its founding team and highlights his operating experience.
- **2025-10** — Saki Georgiadis’s October 4 retrospective describes his 2023 partnership with Milford and Arche.

## Links

- Website: https://evio.vc/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-milford

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Last updated: 2026-10-11