Matter Venture Partners

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All recorded activity

Matter Venture Partners backs HardTech businesses combining advanced science and engineering with hardware and software.

Investment approach

The Silicon Valley firm works with founders on early customers, business models, manufacturing and technology scale-up. Its stated approach draws on operating and investment experience in technically demanding products.

Activity recorded by RoundOS

RoundOS records include Delos Data’s inference infrastructure, TYLsemi’s chiplets, OpenLight’s silicon photonics and Eridu’s AI-networking systems. Rhoda AI and ChipAgents add examples in robotics and semiconductor-design software.

These examples describe financings recorded in RoundOS, rather than the investor’s complete portfolio.

Sources
Rounds participated in
7
Confirmed lead rounds
0
6 roles undisclosed
New companies
7
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$1.1B
6 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A5
Undisclosed2

By primary sector

AI3
Hardware3
Robotics1

By country

United States6
United Kingdom1

Rounds

7 in all activity
Delos Data

Delos Data builds an AI inference infrastructure platform spanning cluster software, server systems and data-interface silicon. It connects heterogeneous GPUs, accelerators, memory and storage into a resilient data domain so operators can scale inference workloads with lower latency and avoid interruptions when components or links fail.

>$100MFunding
Role not disclosed
Volta

Volta develops and operates AI compute infrastructure, combining data-center sites, dedicated compute, software and operations for AI labs, AI-native companies and enterprises.

$300MSeries A
Participant
TYLsemi

TYLsemi delivers standards-based, production-ready chiplets for modern multi-die systems

$43MUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
OpenLight

Builds silicon photonics chips and PDK tools for AI, telecom, and quantum computing markets

$50MSeries A1
Role not disclosed
Eridu

Develops purpose-built networking silicon and systems for AI data centers and hyperscalers

$200MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Rhoda AI

Builds robotic intelligence for real-world environments using video-predictive control

$450MSeries A
Role not disclosed
ChipAgents

ChipAgents develops AI tools that turn chip specifications and code into RTL, verification assets and root-cause analysis.

$74MSeries A
Role not disclosed