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 Messaging

Courier

Series B in 2022
Courier provides an API that enables developers to manage and route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email and messaging platforms. By leveraging user engagement data and online status, the API optimizes notification delivery, ensuring that messages reach users through the most effective medium. The company's notification management software allows clients to create reusable messages that can be customized for different channels, facilitating timely and targeted communication. Over the years, Courier has adapted to technological advancements while maintaining a stable management approach, emphasizing the importance of customer success. The company has developed long-lasting relationships with its largest clients, continually collaborating to meet their evolving needs.

Courier

Series A in 2020
Courier provides an API that enables developers to manage and route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email and messaging platforms. By leveraging user engagement data and online status, the API optimizes notification delivery, ensuring that messages reach users through the most effective medium. The company's notification management software allows clients to create reusable messages that can be customized for different channels, facilitating timely and targeted communication. Over the years, Courier has adapted to technological advancements while maintaining a stable management approach, emphasizing the importance of customer success. The company has developed long-lasting relationships with its largest clients, continually collaborating to meet their evolving needs.

Courier

Seed Round in 2019
Courier provides an API that enables developers to manage and route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email and messaging platforms. By leveraging user engagement data and online status, the API optimizes notification delivery, ensuring that messages reach users through the most effective medium. The company's notification management software allows clients to create reusable messages that can be customized for different channels, facilitating timely and targeted communication. Over the years, Courier has adapted to technological advancements while maintaining a stable management approach, emphasizing the importance of customer success. The company has developed long-lasting relationships with its largest clients, continually collaborating to meet their evolving needs.

DocTalk

Seed Round in 2017
DocTalk Solutions India Private Limited develops and offers a mobile application that enables patients to communicate with their doctors. The company's application enables users to chat with their doctor, save medical reports, and get prescriptions. DocTalk Solutions India Private Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Hustle

Series A in 2017
Hustle, Inc. operates a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that allows organizations to communicate effectively with their contacts through personal text messages. The platform serves various purposes, including event attendance, fundraising, admissions, recruiting, advocacy, and sales and marketing. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hustle provides an affordable and efficient solution for organizations to reach their target supporters and customers. By enabling two-way conversations, Hustle empowers its users to engage in genuine and personal dialogues with a large number of individuals, thus enhancing their outreach efforts.

Easemob

Series C in 2017
EaseMob Technologies is a PaaS-based platform that allows developers to integrate instant messaging, voice, and data services to their apps by providing open API and SDK packages. It offers full support for Android, iOS, and web platforms. Easemob Technologies was founded by Ji Fang, Jervis Liu, Strong Liu, and Johnson Ma in 2013 and is based in Beijing, China.

Hustle

Seed Round in 2016
Hustle, Inc. operates a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that allows organizations to communicate effectively with their contacts through personal text messages. The platform serves various purposes, including event attendance, fundraising, admissions, recruiting, advocacy, and sales and marketing. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hustle provides an affordable and efficient solution for organizations to reach their target supporters and customers. By enabling two-way conversations, Hustle empowers its users to engage in genuine and personal dialogues with a large number of individuals, thus enhancing their outreach efforts.

Easemob

Series B in 2015
EaseMob Technologies is a PaaS-based platform that allows developers to integrate instant messaging, voice, and data services to their apps by providing open API and SDK packages. It offers full support for Android, iOS, and web platforms. Easemob Technologies was founded by Ji Fang, Jervis Liu, Strong Liu, and Johnson Ma in 2013 and is based in Beijing, China.

textPlus

Venture Round in 2015
textPlus, Inc. is a mobile communications service provider that offers WiFi-based communication solutions through its application, textPlus. This app allows users to send text messages, make free calls to both landlines and mobile numbers, and share content across various platforms. textPlus is available on iOS, Android, and Windows smartphones, as well as on devices such as iPod touch, tablets, and Kindle Fire. Founded in 2007 and based in Marina del Rey, California, the company was previously known as GOGII Inc. before rebranding to textPlus in October 2012.

Mofang

Series A in 2015
Mofang.com is a mobile gaming media platform based in Chaoyang, China, founded in 2012. The platform focuses on various aspects of mobile gaming, including online games for both Apple and Android devices. Mofang.com aims to enhance user experience by developing a personalized push mechanism for mobile games, allowing users to receive tailored content. Additionally, the company seeks to integrate user-generated content to create cross-platform information products and services, thereby expanding its reach and engagement within the mobile gaming community.

Frankly.me

Seed Round in 2015
Frankly.me is a video-based Q&A platform founded in 2014 and based in Delhi, India. It enables users to connect with public figures such as politicians, authors, actors, and sports personalities, facilitating direct conversations that users often wish to have. Through its application, users can pose questions to these public figures, who respond via video selfies, creating an interactive and engaging experience. This platform not only fosters dialogue between users and celebrities but also enhances social networking by allowing users to share and discuss these unique interactions.

Easemob

Series A in 2014
EaseMob Technologies is a PaaS-based platform that allows developers to integrate instant messaging, voice, and data services to their apps by providing open API and SDK packages. It offers full support for Android, iOS, and web platforms. Easemob Technologies was founded by Ji Fang, Jervis Liu, Strong Liu, and Johnson Ma in 2013 and is based in Beijing, China.

Easemob

Seed Round in 2014
EaseMob Technologies is a PaaS-based platform that allows developers to integrate instant messaging, voice, and data services to their apps by providing open API and SDK packages. It offers full support for Android, iOS, and web platforms. Easemob Technologies was founded by Ji Fang, Jervis Liu, Strong Liu, and Johnson Ma in 2013 and is based in Beijing, China.

Momo

Series C in 2013
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.

Mofang

Seed Round in 2013
Mofang.com is a mobile gaming media platform based in Chaoyang, China, founded in 2012. The platform focuses on various aspects of mobile gaming, including online games for both Apple and Android devices. Mofang.com aims to enhance user experience by developing a personalized push mechanism for mobile games, allowing users to receive tailored content. Additionally, the company seeks to integrate user-generated content to create cross-platform information products and services, thereby expanding its reach and engagement within the mobile gaming community.

textPlus

Series D in 2012
textPlus, Inc. is a mobile communications service provider that offers WiFi-based communication solutions through its application, textPlus. This app allows users to send text messages, make free calls to both landlines and mobile numbers, and share content across various platforms. textPlus is available on iOS, Android, and Windows smartphones, as well as on devices such as iPod touch, tablets, and Kindle Fire. Founded in 2007 and based in Marina del Rey, California, the company was previously known as GOGII Inc. before rebranding to textPlus in October 2012.

Momo

Series B in 2012
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.

TalkTo

Series A in 2012
TalkTo is a private platform that enables users to communicate with local businesses through text messaging, making the process as simple as texting friends. It operates in the United States and Canada, allowing users to send messages and receive responses via various channels, including chat and SMS. Additionally, TalkTo offers micro and nano influencers tools to monetize their influence through a video calling solution, booking management system, promocode system, and an international booking calendar. This combination of services enhances user engagement with businesses while providing influencers with new monetization opportunities.

Jiongji App

Venture Round in 2012
Jiongji application provides an approach of memorizing English vocabulary by illustrating humorous pictures. Jiongji is widely supported by internet users where they’ve advocated that this English learning method should be adopted by textbooks. This application adds each word with a funny picture and a simple descriptive explanation. E-cards like this are made, and over ten of them are posted on microblogs everyday.

Momo

Series A in 2011
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.

textPlus

Series C in 2011
textPlus, Inc. is a mobile communications service provider that offers WiFi-based communication solutions through its application, textPlus. This app allows users to send text messages, make free calls to both landlines and mobile numbers, and share content across various platforms. textPlus is available on iOS, Android, and Windows smartphones, as well as on devices such as iPod touch, tablets, and Kindle Fire. Founded in 2007 and based in Marina del Rey, California, the company was previously known as GOGII Inc. before rebranding to textPlus in October 2012.

textPlus

Series B in 2009
textPlus, Inc. is a mobile communications service provider that offers WiFi-based communication solutions through its application, textPlus. This app allows users to send text messages, make free calls to both landlines and mobile numbers, and share content across various platforms. textPlus is available on iOS, Android, and Windows smartphones, as well as on devices such as iPod touch, tablets, and Kindle Fire. Founded in 2007 and based in Marina del Rey, California, the company was previously known as GOGII Inc. before rebranding to textPlus in October 2012.
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