Investing Profile

Ilya Sukhar

VCFounderInvestorFormer CEO
Entrepreneur & General Partner at Matrix
ilya.sukhar.comSan Francisco, California
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Current Investing Position
Matrix General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$2.0M
Investments On Record
45
Current Fund Size
$800M

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Ilya Sukhar's Investments On Record (32)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Parabola
Series BJun 2023$24M
Series AAug 2020$8M
SeedMay 2018$2M
$34M
Co-investors: Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Blake Bartlett (Openview Venture Partners), Sean Dempsey (Merus Capital), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Carine Magescas (AngelPad), Thomas Korte (AngelPad), Cristina Cordova, AJ Frank, Jon Brelig, Saran Chari, Melissa Tan, Mike Hennessey, Elad Gil, Zack Kanter, Immad Akhund
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), Austin Walters, Alex Payne, Thibaud Elziere, Roxanne Varza, Dharmesh Shah, Ron Pragides, Ryan Chan
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: Seth Berman (Susa Ventures), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), 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), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), DJ Patil, Akshay Kothari, Elad Gil, Scott Belsky, Cristina Cordova, Dylan Field
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
Fivetran
Series DSep 2021$570M
Series CJun 2020$100M
Series BSep 2019$44M
Series ADec 2018$15M
$720M
Co-investors: Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), David George (Andreessen Horowitz)
FeaturePeek
SeedMay 2020$2M
$2M
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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