Our Team

Viva Valley Partners is a team of professionals with complementary skill sets across strategy, operations, finance, and mergers & acquisitions.

Its Managing Partners, Matt and Austin, are childhood best friends. Both grew up in their respective families’ small businesses in Las Vegas. They have a strong passion for building small business in the U.S. and intend to dedicate a career to it.

Matthew Land

Matthew Land is an investment professional with experience in the financial services industry. Matthew’s previous experience ranges from valuation, investment banking, corporate development, and private equity.

Key Skills: Matthew is well-versed in building defensible business plans, identifying strategic initiatives such as such as SKU rationalization, targeted A&P strategy, penetration of new geographies and sales channels, and more. Matthew has led the acquisition and turnaround of several struggling companies and is comfortable getting up to speed on new industry dynamics.

Austin Cortney

Austin Cortney is a strategic and operational professional with experience in a variety of industries/firms ranging from Fortune 500 companies to series stage startups. Austin’s previous experience includes go-to-market strategy, product development, re-org/change management, strategic cost reduction, and M&A integration. He also spent time investing at both a VC fund and a PE fund.

Key Skills: Austin is well-versed in developing and executing on strategic roadmaps/visions at firms of varying sizes/industries. He has delivered industry presentations to Fortune 500 CEOs, integrated AI tools in legacy systems, and dug in the trenches on product development, QA process, and org structure at series stage companies.