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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
SEC-verified vehicles of the same sponsor, predating these roles and carrying none of them. The badge counts them; the figure beside this one does not.
Mergers closed across all 5 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting — again over all 5.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
4 vehicles on file, newest listing first
7 of 9 appear on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
6 people on two or more of them
Matthew Joseph Murphy is a fintech-focused entrepreneur, strategic investor, and independent director of Columbus Circle Capital Corp II (CMII), a SPAC sponsored by Cohen & Company. He also serves as an independent director of Columbus Circle Capital Corp III and holds board seats at Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp., Upswing Health, and Feals, Inc. His SPAC roles place him alongside a leadership team that includes Chairman and CEO Gary Quin, CFO Joseph W. Pooler, Jr., and fellow independent directors Garrett Curran, Alberto Alsina Gonzalez, and Marc Spiegel. Cohen & Company Capital Markets, a division of Cohen & Company Securities, LLC, served as lead book-running manager for the Columbus Circle Capital Corp II IPO.
Since March 2018, Murphy has served as General Partner at Montage Ventures, a venture capital firm that builds and invests in companies across financial services, healthcare, and commerce innovation with a focus on vertical applications. In this role, he identifies scalable solutions addressing systemic challenges in financial services, construction, insurance, and payments, working closely with founders to launch and grow businesses that integrate advanced technologies with novel capital structures. He also served as Managing Partner at Unwritten Wines from June 2014 to May 2025. Previously, Murphy was Global Vice President at RenRen, where he led the company's U.S. Innovation Lab, Appsurdity, a venture studio that operated and scaled multiple technology platforms including TruckerPath (a software solution for the trucking industry), Sindeo (a modern mortgage origination platform), and Chime/Lofty (a CRM system serving the real estate sector). Prior to that, he served as Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder at Lemon.com and as Chief Marketing Officer at Chegg. He has also served as a FinTech Mentor at Plug and Play Tech Center.
Murphy holds a BC in Finance from Santa Clara University and a certification from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. His professional network spans prominent fintech and venture capital figures including Michael Scott Cagney (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Figure Technologies), Adam Nash (Founder of Daffy and former CEO of Wealthfront), Manoj Jain (Co-Chief Investment Officer at Maso Capital Partners), and Jarred Kessler (former CEO and Founder of EasyKnock). His deep expertise in venture formation, financial markets, and technology innovation positions him as a key independent voice on the Columbus Circle Capital SPAC platform, which is affiliated with Cohen & Company, a financial services company specializing in an expanding range of capital markets and asset management offerings.
Matthew Murphy, Independent Director Matthew Murphy will serve as one of our directors upon the trading of our securities on Nasdaq. From May 2025 to February 2026 he served on the board of directors of Columbus Circle 1 (NASDAQ: BRR), and since February 2026 he has served on the board of directors of Columbus Circle 2 (NASDAQ:CMII). He has over 20 years of experience in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and strategic investing, specializing in disruptive innovations across a variety of sectors. Since 2018, he has served as a General Partner at Montage Ventures, with a focus on backing entrepreneurs looking to disrupt the Financial Services, Real Estate and Insurance industries. During his
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This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002067499 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 17 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 9 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.