Matthew Bellows

Matthew Bellows is a serial founder turned investor who is now Acting CEO of Averi, an AI-plus-human marketing platform in New York. He built and sold three companies - the mobile-games media bet WGR Media (to CNET), the sales-software pioneer Yesware (to Vendasta), and the digital financial-planning startup BodesWell (to American Express) - and now invests as a General Partner at Grit Capital. A longtime meditation teacher who studied Buddhist and Western psychology at Naropa, he is known for pairing hard-nosed sales discipline with a calm, mindfulness-first leadership style.