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.

Avnish Bajaj

Founder and Managing Director

Tim Barrows

Partner

Diana Kimball Berlin

Partner

Matthew Brown

Partner

Mollie Carter

Marketing Partner

Heng Deng

Associate

Phyllis Doherty

Administrative Partner

Jingze Feng

Senior Associate

Paul Ferri

Co-Founder

Josh Hannah

General Partner

Leona Hu

Senior Associate

Yuzhou Hu

Associate

Yunqiu Hu

Investment Manager

Jake Jolis

Partner

Zhuyan Li

Vice President

Cui Lin

VP

Zhuang Liu

Director

Patrick Malatack

Partner

Harry Man

Partner

Kojo Osei

Partner

Stan Reiss

Partner

Antonio Rodriguez

Partner

Yibo Shao

Founding Partner

Bo Shao

Founding Managing Partner

David Skok

Partner

Dana Stalder

Partner

Tuong Sing Su

Founding Managing Partner

Ilya Sukhar

Partner

Roger Sun

Director

Andrew Verhalen

Partner

Stella Wang

Director

Bingxing Wang

director

Min Xiao

Partner

Kevin Xiong

Partner

Zhiyun Yu

MD

Ying Zhang

Founding Managing Partner

David Zhang

Founding Managing Partner

Wei Zhou

VP

Joy Zhou

Director

Lingye Zuo

Partner

Past deals in Computer Vision

Luma AI

Series A in 2023
Luma AI is a company focused on enabling users to capture and experience the world in three dimensions. Its platform employs a neural capture and rendering system to transform casual smartphone photos into photorealistic 3D representations. This technology serves various industries, including e-commerce, real estate, and 3D gaming, allowing users to engage with multimedia content in a mixed-reality environment. By leveraging multimodal artificial intelligence, Luma AI aims to expand human imagination and capabilities, facilitating a more immersive experience in visual storytelling.

SpeedBot

Series B in 2022
SpeedBot is positioned as: the most powerful visual brain for 3D visual perception and robot flexible control in complex scenes for logistics, intelligent manufacturing, new retail, big health, etc.; providing low cost and high efficiency for robot complex interactive scenes 3D visual algorithm, end-of-line software and hardware integration, general vision computing platform services.

SpeedBot

Venture Round in 2022
SpeedBot is positioned as: the most powerful visual brain for 3D visual perception and robot flexible control in complex scenes for logistics, intelligent manufacturing, new retail, big health, etc.; providing low cost and high efficiency for robot complex interactive scenes 3D visual algorithm, end-of-line software and hardware integration, general vision computing platform services.

RightHand Robotics

Series C in 2022
RightHand Robotics, Inc. specializes in manufacturing robotic order-picking systems designed for various industrial applications, including e-commerce, food handling, and flexible manufacturing. The company offers innovative products such as the ReFlex SF, which features a 3D-printed palm equipped with servos and compliant fingers, and the ReFlex TakkTile, a tactile sensor that enhances the robots' ability to grasp items gently and make adjustments to avoid errors. Their technology allows robots to automatically grasp a wide range of items from bins and cases, eliminating the need for extensive data-entry or parameter-tuning, thereby making the systems cost-effective and adaptable to the evolving needs of businesses. Founded in 2015, RightHand Robotics is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a sales and business development office located in Frankfurt, Germany.

Deep View Technology

Series B in 2022
Beijing Deep View Technology Co., Ltd. engaged in research on 3D computer vision algorithm. The company is based in Beijing, China.

Vastai Technologies

Series B in 2021
Vastai Technologies is focused on developing AI chips for the optimization of computer vision and video processing.

Luma AI

Seed Round in 2021
Luma AI is a company focused on enabling users to capture and experience the world in three dimensions. Its platform employs a neural capture and rendering system to transform casual smartphone photos into photorealistic 3D representations. This technology serves various industries, including e-commerce, real estate, and 3D gaming, allowing users to engage with multimedia content in a mixed-reality environment. By leveraging multimodal artificial intelligence, Luma AI aims to expand human imagination and capabilities, facilitating a more immersive experience in visual storytelling.

Centaur Labs

Series A in 2021
Our platform uses trained professionals to analyze medical images and videos, enabling our customers to build new technologies and treatments to detect and fight disease.

Vastai Technologies

Series A in 2021
Vastai Technologies is focused on developing AI chips for the optimization of computer vision and video processing.

Lightelligence

Series A in 2020
Lightelligence builds optical chips that offer orders of magnitude improvement in terms of high speed, low latency, and low power consumption compared to traditional electronic architectures.

RightHand Robotics

Series B in 2018
RightHand Robotics, Inc. specializes in manufacturing robotic order-picking systems designed for various industrial applications, including e-commerce, food handling, and flexible manufacturing. The company offers innovative products such as the ReFlex SF, which features a 3D-printed palm equipped with servos and compliant fingers, and the ReFlex TakkTile, a tactile sensor that enhances the robots' ability to grasp items gently and make adjustments to avoid errors. Their technology allows robots to automatically grasp a wide range of items from bins and cases, eliminating the need for extensive data-entry or parameter-tuning, thereby making the systems cost-effective and adaptable to the evolving needs of businesses. Founded in 2015, RightHand Robotics is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a sales and business development office located in Frankfurt, Germany.

Elens

Series A in 2018
Beijing Elens Data Technology Co., Ltd. specializes in artificial intelligence analysis and intelligence solutions. The company offers a range of products designed to enhance data processing and analysis capabilities. This includes its Vision Artificial Intelligence Engine, which facilitates data importation, processing, and model training, and the Analysis Natural Language Processing Engine, which handles basic language tasks and information extraction. Additionally, Elens provides the View Knowledge Mapping Intelligence Analysis Platform, which supports information modeling, fusion, calculation, and search functions. By leveraging AI technology, Elens aims to improve efficiency for enterprises by enabling real-time data mining and accurate analysis of both internal and external information, ultimately helping clients reduce development costs and enhance the reuse of industry knowledge. Based in Beijing, China, Elens is committed to developing innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of businesses.

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.

iOranges Automation

Series B in 2018
Shenzhen Ioranges Automation Co., Ltd. develops machine vision positioning systems. The company is based in Shenzhen, China.

Sensingtech

Series B in 2018
Beijing Sensing Technology, a hi-tech innovative company dedicating to artificial intelligence, integrates development, production and sale in business. Always striving to make a breakthrough in face recognition technology, the Company aims to build customized industry solutions of artificial intelligence and mega data analysis. Supported by academic resources of Tsinghua University and Beihang University and with talent and technology as the core, deep learning based face recognition technology leads the industry and can be taken advantage of to develop intelligent and comprehensive solutions in intelligent security and safety, intelligent finance, intelligent building, intelligent transportation, intelligent medicine and intelligent community, in order to offer competitive artificial intelligent solutions and services for customers.

LLVision

Series B in 2018
LLVISION was founded in 2014 by an elite team from Google, Lenovo, Microsoft, Intel, China Aeronautics, Nokia, Broadcom, etc.Their mission is to help the industry leaders intellectualize business processes through the first perspective innovation linked with multi-dimension connections, cognition and synergy and upgraded human-machine collaboration.

PerceptIn

Series A in 2017
PerceptIn, Inc. provides perception, insight, and intelligence solutions. The company’s solutions include hardware; software SDK with algorithms embedded; and mobile VR/AR gaming reference applications. It offers PerceptIn Robotics Vision System, a visual inertial module that facilitates real-time tracking and mapping; cm-level accuracy for house scale environment; and user-friendly SDK. The company’s customers include robot makers, VR/AR device makers, content creators, smartphone OEMs, gaming companies, and early VR/AR adopters. PerceptIn, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

iOranges Automation

Series A in 2017
Shenzhen Ioranges Automation Co., Ltd. develops machine vision positioning systems. The company is based in Shenzhen, China.

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.

LLVision

Series B in 2017
LLVISION was founded in 2014 by an elite team from Google, Lenovo, Microsoft, Intel, China Aeronautics, Nokia, Broadcom, etc.Their mission is to help the industry leaders intellectualize business processes through the first perspective innovation linked with multi-dimension connections, cognition and synergy and upgraded human-machine collaboration.

RightHand Robotics

Series A in 2017
RightHand Robotics, Inc. specializes in manufacturing robotic order-picking systems designed for various industrial applications, including e-commerce, food handling, and flexible manufacturing. The company offers innovative products such as the ReFlex SF, which features a 3D-printed palm equipped with servos and compliant fingers, and the ReFlex TakkTile, a tactile sensor that enhances the robots' ability to grasp items gently and make adjustments to avoid errors. Their technology allows robots to automatically grasp a wide range of items from bins and cases, eliminating the need for extensive data-entry or parameter-tuning, thereby making the systems cost-effective and adaptable to the evolving needs of businesses. Founded in 2015, RightHand Robotics is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a sales and business development office located in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mor.AI is an artificial intelligence company focusing on Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Understanding technology. It serves as a Conversational Services Search Platform, based on in-house voice interaction of ‘Noise reduction+Automatic Speech Recognition + Multi-round dialogue+Knowledge Graph’. In the cloud, Mor.AI connected services and contents of 50+ fields and provided 10+ transaction services. Through mainly voice interaction and with the Conversational Services Search Platform, Mor.AI built Internet of Things and Internet of Vehicles. In the home appliance industry, Mor.AI is in in-depth cooperation with manufacturers such as vivo, Konka, TCL and Sharp. In the automotive industry, it is in partnership with a number of international and local car manufacturers, for instance, Mercedes-Benz and SAIC MAXUS.

Sensingtech

Series A in 2017
Beijing Sensing Technology, a hi-tech innovative company dedicating to artificial intelligence, integrates development, production and sale in business. Always striving to make a breakthrough in face recognition technology, the Company aims to build customized industry solutions of artificial intelligence and mega data analysis. Supported by academic resources of Tsinghua University and Beihang University and with talent and technology as the core, deep learning based face recognition technology leads the industry and can be taken advantage of to develop intelligent and comprehensive solutions in intelligent security and safety, intelligent finance, intelligent building, intelligent transportation, intelligent medicine and intelligent community, in order to offer competitive artificial intelligent solutions and services for customers.

LLVision

Series A in 2015
LLVISION was founded in 2014 by an elite team from Google, Lenovo, Microsoft, Intel, China Aeronautics, Nokia, Broadcom, etc.Their mission is to help the industry leaders intellectualize business processes through the first perspective innovation linked with multi-dimension connections, cognition and synergy and upgraded human-machine collaboration.

LLVision

Angel Round in 2015
LLVISION was founded in 2014 by an elite team from Google, Lenovo, Microsoft, Intel, China Aeronautics, Nokia, Broadcom, etc.Their mission is to help the industry leaders intellectualize business processes through the first perspective innovation linked with multi-dimension connections, cognition and synergy and upgraded human-machine collaboration.

VideoIQ

Series C in 2012
VideoIQ, Inc. produces intelligent video surveillance systems. The company's products include Icvr intelligent IP cameras and encoders with video recording and analytics for building video analytics, content-aware storage, and intelligent networking into security cameras and encoders; and HD intelligent smart video analytics engines, which act as a digital guard, transforming video surveillance into a system for warning and security protection in various environment and under various conditions. It serves water treatment, chemical, and processing plants in the utilities and infrastructure sector; factory settings in the industrial sector; and truck and train terminals, and highways in the transportation sector. The company also serves government buildings, borders, and military bases in the homeland security industry; and headquarters facilities, hospitals, and production facilities in the corporate campus sector. In addition, it serves car dealerships, parking lots and garages, rental yards, hospitals, and construction sites in the commercial outdoor sector; and luxury homes, notable persons, second homes, and the residential home construction sector. The company sells its products in the United States and Europe through video surveillance integrators and resellers. VideoIQ, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

VideoIQ

Series C in 2011
VideoIQ, Inc. produces intelligent video surveillance systems. The company's products include Icvr intelligent IP cameras and encoders with video recording and analytics for building video analytics, content-aware storage, and intelligent networking into security cameras and encoders; and HD intelligent smart video analytics engines, which act as a digital guard, transforming video surveillance into a system for warning and security protection in various environment and under various conditions. It serves water treatment, chemical, and processing plants in the utilities and infrastructure sector; factory settings in the industrial sector; and truck and train terminals, and highways in the transportation sector. The company also serves government buildings, borders, and military bases in the homeland security industry; and headquarters facilities, hospitals, and production facilities in the corporate campus sector. In addition, it serves car dealerships, parking lots and garages, rental yards, hospitals, and construction sites in the commercial outdoor sector; and luxury homes, notable persons, second homes, and the residential home construction sector. The company sells its products in the United States and Europe through video surveillance integrators and resellers. VideoIQ, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

VideoIQ

Series B in 2008
VideoIQ, Inc. produces intelligent video surveillance systems. The company's products include Icvr intelligent IP cameras and encoders with video recording and analytics for building video analytics, content-aware storage, and intelligent networking into security cameras and encoders; and HD intelligent smart video analytics engines, which act as a digital guard, transforming video surveillance into a system for warning and security protection in various environment and under various conditions. It serves water treatment, chemical, and processing plants in the utilities and infrastructure sector; factory settings in the industrial sector; and truck and train terminals, and highways in the transportation sector. The company also serves government buildings, borders, and military bases in the homeland security industry; and headquarters facilities, hospitals, and production facilities in the corporate campus sector. In addition, it serves car dealerships, parking lots and garages, rental yards, hospitals, and construction sites in the commercial outdoor sector; and luxury homes, notable persons, second homes, and the residential home construction sector. The company sells its products in the United States and Europe through video surveillance integrators and resellers. VideoIQ, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

VideoIQ

Series A in 2007
VideoIQ, Inc. produces intelligent video surveillance systems. The company's products include Icvr intelligent IP cameras and encoders with video recording and analytics for building video analytics, content-aware storage, and intelligent networking into security cameras and encoders; and HD intelligent smart video analytics engines, which act as a digital guard, transforming video surveillance into a system for warning and security protection in various environment and under various conditions. It serves water treatment, chemical, and processing plants in the utilities and infrastructure sector; factory settings in the industrial sector; and truck and train terminals, and highways in the transportation sector. The company also serves government buildings, borders, and military bases in the homeland security industry; and headquarters facilities, hospitals, and production facilities in the corporate campus sector. In addition, it serves car dealerships, parking lots and garages, rental yards, hospitals, and construction sites in the commercial outdoor sector; and luxury homes, notable persons, second homes, and the residential home construction sector. The company sells its products in the United States and Europe through video surveillance integrators and resellers. VideoIQ, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.