Investing Profile

Ilya Sukhar

VCFounderInvestorFormer CEO
Entrepreneur & General Partner at Matrix
ilya.sukhar.comSan Francisco, California
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Cornell University Network
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Y Combinator Network
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Current Investing Position
Matrix General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$2.0M
Investments On Record
47
Current Fund Size
$800M

Ilya Sukhar is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Ilya Sukhar's Investments On Record (34)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Speckle
Series AOct 2024$13M
$20M
Co-investors: Patric Hellermann (Foundamental)
Double
SeedMay 2024$3M
$16M
Co-investors: Luke Skertich (FJ Labs), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Dan Teran (Gutter Capital), Willy Braun (exe), Stephen Schmalhofer (Teamworthy Ventures), Phil Nadel (Forefront Venture Partners), Matt Turk (Goodwater Capital), Rand Hindi, Tim Lenardo, Michael Birch, Roger Dickey, Jawed Karim
Parabola
Series BJun 2023$24M
Series AAug 2020$8M
SeedMay 2018$2M
$34M
Co-investors: J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Blake Bartlett (Openview Venture Partners), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Sean Dempsey (Merus Capital), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Carine Magescas (AngelPad), Thomas Korte (AngelPad), Zack Kanter, Immad Akhund, Cristina Cordova, AJ Frank, Melissa Tan, Mike Hennessey, Elad Gil, Jon Brelig, Saran Chari
Reflect
SeedJan 2023$1M
SeedFeb 2016$3M
$8M
Co-investors: Chris DeVore (Founders' Co-op), William (Bill) Bryant (Threshold Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Eddie Thai (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Rebecca Woodcock (Yamaha Motor Ventures), Roxanne Varza, Austin Walters, Alex Payne, Thibaud Elziere, Derrick Li, Dharmesh Shah, Ryan Chan, Ron Pragides
Chameleon
Series ASep 2022$13M
$15M
Co-investors: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR)
Mashgin
Series BMay 2022$63M
Series ANov 2017$8M
$74M
Co-investors: Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Seth Berman (Susa Ventures), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Jeff Schox (Trucks Venture Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Louis Beryl
Hashboard
SeedMar 2022$7M
$7M
Co-investors: Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Shana Fisher (Third Kind Ventures), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Cristina Cordova, Dylan Field, DJ Patil, Akshay Kothari, Elad Gil, Scott Belsky
Flock Safety
Series EFeb 2022$150M
Series DJul 2021$150M
Series CNov 2020$45M
Series BMar 2020$16M
Series ANov 2018$10M
Series AAug 2018$10M
$380M
Co-investors: Alex Clayton (Meritech Capital Partners), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), Matthew Bellamy (Helium-3 Ventures), Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures), Matt Bellamy
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Ilya Sukhar's Experience

General Partner Matrix Partners2016 - Present
Part-time partner Y Combinator2014 - 2016
Head of Developer Products Facebook2013 - 2016
Co-founder & CEO Parse (acquired by Facebook)2011 - 2016
Founding Team, Product Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)2010 - 2011
Sr. Software Engineer Ooyala (acquired by Telstra)2008 - 2010

Ilya Sukhar's Education

Cornell University M.Eng. Computer Science
Cornell University B.S. Computer Science, Operations Research and Information Engineering
The Harker School