Matrix

Matrix is a San Francisco based venture capital firm founded in 1977 that backs early-stage companies across AI, B2B, consumer, fintech, health tech, and infrastructure. It works with product teams from idea through Series A, offering hands-on support and strategic guidance to help portfolio companies reach scale. The team comprises former founders and operators who bring practical insight to building startups. Matrix operates globally, including Matrix Partners China, which builds long-term relationships with entrepreneurs in China and abroad and invests across sectors and stages. Over its history, Matrix has backed companies that progressed to IPOs or acquisitions, reflecting a focus on durable growth and long-term value creation through close founder collaboration and a global network.

Ben Altshuler

Partner

Timothy Barrows

General Partner

Diana Kimball Berlin

Partner

Phyllis Doherty

Administrative Partner

Paul Ferri

Investor

Past deals in Ticketing

Klook

Series E in 2021
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Klook

Series D in 2019
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Klook

Series D in 2018
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Moretickets

Series C in 2018
Moretickets is an online ticketing company based in Shanghai that offers a platform for purchasing first-hand performance tickets. The company employs a multi-channel ticket bidding mechanism that eliminates intermediaries, allowing users to access strictly audited tickets at discounted prices. Moretickets provides detailed information about various performances, enabling customers to make informed purchasing decisions while securing tickets at more affordable rates.

Klook

Series C in 2017
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Ferris Wheel Ticketing

Series B in 2017
Ferris Wheel Ticketing, formerly known as Niumowang Ticketing, is an online ticket sales platform. Founded in 2015, Ferris Wheel Ticketing service is similar to San Francisco-based StubHub, providing services to buyers and sellers of tickets for concerts, operas, dramas, musicals, dance and ballet shows and exhibitions. The platform currently facilitates around 60,000 ticket sales per month with a transaction value of RMB30 million (US$4 million). It also provides discount tickets and seat reservation services.

Klook

Series B in 2017
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Ridlr

Series B in 2016
Ridlr is a public transport application based in Mumbai, India, that was incorporated in 2010. The app serves major Indian cities, including Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Delhi, by providing live timings and schedules for buses, trains, metros, and monorails. It offers users real-time traffic information and online ticketing services, facilitating easier and smarter daily intra-city travel. Additionally, Ridlr assists users in finding the quickest and most convenient routes across the entire transit system, enhancing the overall commuting experience. As of 2018, Ridlr operates as a subsidiary of ANI Technologies Private Limited.

Klook

Series A in 2015
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Ridlr

Series A in 2013
Ridlr is a public transport application based in Mumbai, India, that was incorporated in 2010. The app serves major Indian cities, including Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Delhi, by providing live timings and schedules for buses, trains, metros, and monorails. It offers users real-time traffic information and online ticketing services, facilitating easier and smarter daily intra-city travel. Additionally, Ridlr assists users in finding the quickest and most convenient routes across the entire transit system, enhancing the overall commuting experience. As of 2018, Ridlr operates as a subsidiary of ANI Technologies Private Limited.

zhouwu

Series A in 2013
Friday Travel Network is a Chinese company offering products focused on discount tickets for tourist attractions. Friday Travel Network provides ticket discount information for tourists. The company sticks to traditional network operation marketing for tourism, aiming to improve tourism for famous scenic spots in China. Having an operation center located in Hangzhou, Friday Travel Network was established in 2012 in Shanghai, China.

Maizhuo

Series A in 2012
Maizuo Network is a ticketing platform based in Shenzhen, China, that provides a comprehensive movie service to users. Established in 2008 by Shenzhen Huayu Information Technology Co, Maizuo has expanded its reach to cover 37 first-tier and second-tier cities across the country. The platform offers various services, including access to movie information, online ticket purchases, and user interactive social networking features. Additionally, it provides sales for movie-related products. Maizuo has built a strong reputation for reasonable ticket prices and has attracted over one million users to its services, facilitating increased attendance at theaters.

Flight Steward

Series A in 2011
Flight Steward (航班管家) is a Chinese mobile application that offers one-stop travel services that include flight delay fixes, flight tickets, hotel reservations, mobile check-in, and airport information navigation. The application also supports the real-time inquiry and purchase of domestic flight tickets and various online modes of payment like Unionpay and Alipay. Passengers can subscribe to dynamic flight information to timely learn real-time information like flight delay and cancellation, so as to arrange their itineraries accordingly. The product’s user base exceeded 1 million in early 2010. Flight Steward obtained $ 5 million from Sequoia Capital in a Series A financing in 2011, and nearly $15 million from Matrix Partners China and Greylock in the Series B financing. By 2013, Flight Steward has become the most comprehensive platform for premium class ticket bookings in China.
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