Meet Mat + Tamara

Meet Mat

About Mat— I’m Polish and grew up on a farm in rural Poland. I’m an Electronics Engineer, worked for Barclays Bank as Researcher and Developer in Prague Czech Republic and at Bity, a Switzerland based brokerage as product manager. I’m a founder of multiple small tech startups and work as an investor in early tech startups, spending most of my time at home.

Meet Tamara

About Tamara— I’m American and I grew up on a ranch near San Francisco. I’m an active investor in early stage software projects and have a background in arts. I began my adult life as an artist and went to the School of Visual Arts in NYC in the early 2000s. As a result of an equestrian accident in my late 20s that required long-term treatment, I moved back to Silicon Valley at the start of the Web2 tech boom. This new wave of technology made me reassess my career. I attended a coding bootcamp and went back to school for computer science 10 years ago.  After this, I began working with and investing in early stage tech companies. I am currently investing in and advising several startups (some with Mat) and mainly work from home.

About Us

We spend half our time in our historical farm in the South of France. It’s an idyllic and scenic environment on the outskirts of a small traditional village. We live 50min from Montpellier, a vibrant city in the south of France. Montpellier has a lot to offer, from historical architecture and a bustling arts scene to quality education and hospitals. Montpellier also offers a wide variety of restaurants based on the local fishing industry. We visited last year and fell in love with the place, so much that we decided to relocate and spend most of our time here.

We do all of our work from home so we will have lots of time to spend with our child. For the last few months, we’ve worked hard to renovate our ranch. We started with a thorough cleaning of the stones, followed by repair works and installing new furniture and equipment. Our goal is to become a self-sustaining farm and provide most of our own food and energy. We believe in a healthy lifestyle that includes organic whole foods and plenty of outdoor activity. We want our child to grow up in the outdoors with respect for nature and animals. We currently have chickens, but we will get more animals once we’ve finalized the renovations.

We were both “gifted” children who excelled in school and had a number of private tutors growing up. Tamara learned to read by age 1.5 yrs old. We will raise our children to speak English, Polish and French but we’re also open to them learning other languages. We will send our children to top schools in the area and supplement their learning with private tutors.

Why Surrogacy?

We both focused on our careers and did not meet the right person, until we found each other. Now we have been together for a few years and really want to start a family together.

We would like a surrogate who lives an as natural a life as possible, ideally with a lot of time around nature and an organic and primal focused diet (grassfed red meats, raw milk, egg yolks, high vitamin and mineral diet). We are willing to supplement the cost of a diet like this. We want to have optimal nutrition for our child in-utero to fully develop their brain. Once they are born, they will consume a diet high in eggs produced by our own chickens, organic milk from local farms from grass fed cows as well as other fresh organic local ingredients.