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Matthew McCall is a Partner at New World Ventures and co-founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners. McCall has been responsible for managing investments in Analyte Media, Cognitive Concepts (acquired by Houghton Mifflin), EverDream (acquired by Dell), Feedburner (acquired by Google), Imago Scientific, Lefthand Networks (acquired by HP), Siimpel and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster).
McCall has served on the advisory board to the MayorÍs Council of Technology Advisors in Chicago as well as on numerous other regional high technology advisory boards. McCall is an executive board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association. He is the author of a popular venture blog, VCConfidential.com. He serves on the Kellogg Alumni Council. He has been honored by Crain's Chicago Business on its annual "40 under 40î list of leading Chicagoans under age 40. He has also been named as one of top 100 most prominent members of Chicago's technology community. He has keynoted or been a panelist at over 50 area conferences and events nationwide. He is a founder & trustee of the McCall Family Foundation, focused on improving early childhood development in ChicagoÍs disadvantaged communities as well as encouraging entrepreneurship in our youth.
Previous to 1995, McCall worked in the Boston Consulting GroupÍs Chicago office, where he managed consulting and client teams on projects in the telecommunications, health-care and financial services industries. During and after college, McCall worked for Bankers Trust in Merchant Banking as well as at Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust.
McCall holds a B.A. in Economics and History from Williams College and an MBA with honors from Northwestern UniversityÍs J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds a Masters in Manufacturing Management from Northwestern UniversityÍs McCormick School of Engineering.
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