About Us

What your company will become over the next five years starts with the decisions you make today.

Rapid Alpha helps companies identify, evaluate, and commercialize breakthrough technologies. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by transforming fragmented technical and market information into structured intelligence organizations can act on with confidence.

For many companies, the path from technology discovery to commercial success is unclear. Critical signals are scattered across patents, research publications, financial filings, product announcements, and market activity. Rapid Alpha was founded to solve this challenge by combining deep technical analysis with scalable intelligence systems that bring clarity to complex innovation landscapes.

Our team brings together analysts, engineers, and domain specialists working at the intersection of technology, markets, and strategy. We help organizations answer the questions that shape long-term growth: where meaningful innovation is occurring, which technologies are gaining traction, where competitive advantage can be built, and how companies should position themselves for the next phase of industry evolution.

To support this work, Rapid Alpha developed the EVOS platform, an intelligence infrastructure designed to ingest large volumes of public and proprietary data, structure it into trusted datasets, and enable advanced analysis through custom large language models and retrieval-based reasoning systems. EVOS allows analysts and executives to explore complex technical landscapes, identify emerging opportunities, and generate evidence-based strategic insight.

Our work supports high-impact decisions across technology commercialization, market entry strategy, intellectual property positioning, and strategic partnerships. By combining human expertise with scalable intelligence systems, Rapid Alpha helps organizations move faster, reduce uncertainty, and act on opportunities earlier.

At Rapid Alpha, we believe every successful company eventually reaches a moment when it must reinvent itself to remain competitive. We call this moment a Second Founding—a deliberate effort to identify the next engines of growth and build the capabilities required to capture them. Our role is to help organizations navigate that transition with clarity, evidence, and confidence.

Our Leadership

Matthew Wahlrab

Founder / Chief Executive Officer

Matthew is the Founder and CEO of Rapid Alpha, where he leads the development of intelligence systems designed to help organizations identify, evaluate, and commercialize emerging technologies. Over the course of his career, Matthew has analyzed thousands of technologies and patents across multiple industries, supporting both corporate innovation programs and technology-focused investment funds.

Matthew began his career in intellectual property in 2001, working at the intersection of IP strategy, business intelligence, and technology commercialization. Over the course of his career, he has supported investment funds, operating companies, and innovation teams in identifying high-value technology opportunities and translating them into strategic growth initiatives.

He has managed commercialization efforts for patent portfolios containing as many as 5,600 assets and has advised organizations on intellectual property strategy, portfolio development, and technology monetization. His work spans multiple industries including energy, advanced materials, software, and emerging technologies.

Matthew has been recognized as one of the world’s Top 300 Intellectual Property Strategists every year since 2017 by IAM, a leading global publication covering intellectual property markets and strategy.

He is also a contributor to several influential publications and initiatives in the innovation ecosystem. Matthew is an author of the Keiretsu Capital Exit Strategy Handbook, a contributor to the 2021 ICC Intellectual Property Roadmap update, and has advised on the formation of intellectual property investment funds. In addition, he serves as a Venture Partner for venture funds, supporting investment and commercialization strategy for emerging technology companies.

Through Rapid Alpha, Matthew focuses on building systems that transform fragmented technical and market information into actionable intelligence—helping companies identify their next engine of growth and execute what he calls a “Second Founding.”

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