Matter Venture Partners

mattervp.com ↗Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionAI · Series A

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
5
Confirmed lead rounds
0
4 roles undisclosed
New companies
5
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$1.1B
5 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A5

By primary sector

AI2
Hardware2
Robotics1

By country

United States4
United Kingdom1

Rounds

5 in this selection
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
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