Matrix

Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm established in 1977, with offices in San Francisco, Cambridge, Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai, and Bangalore. The firm focuses on seed, early-stage, late-stage, and growth capital investments across various sectors, including software, communications, artificial intelligence, fintech, digital health, and clean technology. With a commitment to building long-term relationships with entrepreneurs, Matrix Partners aims to support visionary founders in developing significant, industry-leading companies. The firm has a strong track record, having participated in hundreds of investments, with many of its portfolio companies achieving successful IPOs or profitable mergers and acquisitions. The team at Matrix Partners combines local insights with global expertise, comprising both former entrepreneurs and seasoned investors.

Ben Altshuler

Partner

Tim Barrows

Partner

Diana Kimball Berlin

Partner

Rahul Chaudhary

Venture Partner

Pranay Desai

Managing Director

Phyllis Doherty

Administrative Partner

Paul J. Ferri

Co-Founder

Jacob Jolis

Partner

Patrick Malatack

Partner

Harry Man

Partner

Kojo Osei

Partner

Kun Qian

Managing Director

Brian Ru

Venture Partner

Varun Singhal

Senior Associate

Dana Stalder

General Partner

David Su

Founding Managing Partner

Ilya Sukhar

General Partner

Sun Linghao

Managing Partner

Huadong Wang

Partner

Kevin Xiong

Partner

Michael Zuo

Partner

T.J. Parker

Partner

Past deals in Geospatial

Geopipe

Seed Round in 2021
Geopipe specializes in creating immersive digital twins of the real world through advanced machine learning and algorithmic tools. The company processes vast amounts of geographic and numeric data, including satellite images, maps, and laser scans, utilizing cloud-based distributed systems to reconstruct entire cities rapidly. This innovative approach allows for efficient simulations in various fields such as gaming, architecture, and urban planning. By providing real estate developers with authoritative digital representations, Geopipe helps streamline project timelines, ultimately saving time and costs in the development process.

Geometrical-Pal

Seed Round in 2021
Geometrical-PAL is a Chinese autonomous driving technology developer.

Oriental Space

Angel Round in 2021
Oriental Space is an aerospace company that manufactures large solid rockets.

GaiaWorks

Series D in 2020
GaiaWorks is a workforce management system developer. GaiaWorks' solution integrates time and attendance, intelligent scheduling, lean working hours, labor optimization to simplify compliance, control labor costs, improve satisfaction and productivity for organizations.

LandSpace

Series C in 2020
LandSpace is a Chinese company based in Beijing that specializes in the development and operation of rockets, specifically targeting the small and medium-sized commercial aerospace application market. The company focuses on creating liquid fuel rocket engines and commercial launch vehicles, emphasizing the importance of independent intellectual property rights. LandSpace is dedicated to advancing its proprietary liquid-fuel rocket engines and providing low-cost, standardized launch service solutions for private and commercial aerospace enterprises in China. With robust capabilities in design, manufacturing, and testing, LandSpace positions itself as a key player in the aerospace sector and is recognized as a national high-tech enterprise as well as a member of the International Astronautical Federation.

vesoft

Series A in 2020
Vesoft is a developer of Nebula Graph, an open-source distributed graph database designed to assist businesses in deriving insights from large and interconnected datasets. The database features an advanced architecture that enables it to manage super large-scale graphs comprising billions of nodes and trillions of edges, while maintaining low latency and high throughput. By utilizing Nebula Graph, organizations can uncover hidden value within complex data structures, facilitating better decision-making and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

vesoft

Seed Round in 2020
Vesoft is a developer of Nebula Graph, an open-source distributed graph database designed to assist businesses in deriving insights from large and interconnected datasets. The database features an advanced architecture that enables it to manage super large-scale graphs comprising billions of nodes and trillions of edges, while maintaining low latency and high throughput. By utilizing Nebula Graph, organizations can uncover hidden value within complex data structures, facilitating better decision-making and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

vesoft

Seed Round in 2020
Vesoft is a developer of Nebula Graph, an open-source distributed graph database designed to assist businesses in deriving insights from large and interconnected datasets. The database features an advanced architecture that enables it to manage super large-scale graphs comprising billions of nodes and trillions of edges, while maintaining low latency and high throughput. By utilizing Nebula Graph, organizations can uncover hidden value within complex data structures, facilitating better decision-making and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Origin Space

Angel Round in 2019
Beijing Origin Space Technology Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company focused on the research, exploration, and mining of aerospace resources, particularly in the area of asteroid mining. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Shenzhen, the company aims to develop mineral resources, including rare metals, from near-Earth asteroids. It plans to utilize a multi-band space telescope to analyze the spectral characteristics of these asteroids, which will help identify their mineral compositions and select suitable mining targets. Origin Space's long-term vision includes conducting asteroid landing missions and returning samples for analysis, thereby addressing the limitations of Earth's resources and contributing to sustainable development through the utilization of extraterrestrial materials.

Asensing

Series A in 2019
Guangzhou Asensing Electronics Co., Ltd. specializes in the development of inertial navigation and optoelectronic technology solutions. Founded in 2014 and based in Guangzhou, China, the company offers a range of products including vertical gyros, inertial measurement units, attitude heading reference systems, and GPS/INS integrated navigation systems. These products are utilized across various sectors such as aerospace, marine, and industrial applications, serving customers in the fields of aircraft, ships, robots, and somatosensory terminals. In addition to standard offerings, Asensing provides customized solutions, particularly in the areas of UAV platforms and night vision technology. The company's advanced inertial and optoelectronic products enhance dynamic attitude measurement, motion control, and positioning algorithms, contributing to safer and more precise navigation systems.

GaiaWorks

Series C in 2019
GaiaWorks is a workforce management system developer. GaiaWorks' solution integrates time and attendance, intelligent scheduling, lean working hours, labor optimization to simplify compliance, control labor costs, improve satisfaction and productivity for organizations.

Carmera

Series B in 2018
CARMERA provides real-time 3D maps and navigation-critical data for autonomous vehicles, as well as 3D scene reconstruction and site analytics data for professionals in architecture, construction, real estate and other built environment segments. CARMERA operates an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network built from the ground up, that gathers continually updated 3D scene, change detection and analytics data. Our machine vision and geospatial data pipelines extract rich texture and insight for autonomous vehicles and built environment data customers, while helping make vehicles on city streets safer and adhering to privacy best practices. CARMERA’s mission is to automate cities by maintaining the world’s most robust real-time, street-level intelligence platform and to make it accessible to anyone.

Spacety

Series B in 2018
Spacety is a microsatellite start-up that specializes in developing commercial micro/nano-satellites. It provides short-cycle, low-cost, and one-stop services to scientists, research institutes, and commercial companies, for science experiments and technology demonstrations. At present, the company has launched four commercial microsatellites and aims for more in the future. The company was founded in January 2016 with headquarters in Changsha, China.

GaiaWorks

Series B in 2017
GaiaWorks is a workforce management system developer. GaiaWorks' solution integrates time and attendance, intelligent scheduling, lean working hours, labor optimization to simplify compliance, control labor costs, improve satisfaction and productivity for organizations.

Carmera

Venture Round in 2017
CARMERA provides real-time 3D maps and navigation-critical data for autonomous vehicles, as well as 3D scene reconstruction and site analytics data for professionals in architecture, construction, real estate and other built environment segments. CARMERA operates an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network built from the ground up, that gathers continually updated 3D scene, change detection and analytics data. Our machine vision and geospatial data pipelines extract rich texture and insight for autonomous vehicles and built environment data customers, while helping make vehicles on city streets safer and adhering to privacy best practices. CARMERA’s mission is to automate cities by maintaining the world’s most robust real-time, street-level intelligence platform and to make it accessible to anyone.

Spacety

Series A in 2017
Spacety is a microsatellite start-up that specializes in developing commercial micro/nano-satellites. It provides short-cycle, low-cost, and one-stop services to scientists, research institutes, and commercial companies, for science experiments and technology demonstrations. At present, the company has launched four commercial microsatellites and aims for more in the future. The company was founded in January 2016 with headquarters in Changsha, China.

Wujie Space

Series A in 2017
Wujie Space is a Beijing-based co-working space start-up.

GaiaWorks

Series B in 2017
GaiaWorks is a workforce management system developer. GaiaWorks' solution integrates time and attendance, intelligent scheduling, lean working hours, labor optimization to simplify compliance, control labor costs, improve satisfaction and productivity for organizations.

GaiaWorks

Series A in 2016
GaiaWorks is a workforce management system developer. GaiaWorks' solution integrates time and attendance, intelligent scheduling, lean working hours, labor optimization to simplify compliance, control labor costs, improve satisfaction and productivity for organizations.

RT Map

Series A in 2013
RT Map is leading provider of technology for indoor positioning and navigation for Shopping Malls & Airport.

Circle Inc

Angel Round in 2011
Circle is the app that answers the question, "Who’s Around You?" Know when your friends & networks are nearby, wherever you are, no matter where you go. Circle tells you when your friends, or people from your networks (college, work, hometown, professional group, etc.), are near you. You'll be magically notified whenever they're around. Circle is an award-winning app, featured by Apple in over 50 countries and many of the top press publications.
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