Ilya Sukhar
Investor @ Matrix
San Francisco, United States
Ilya Sukhar is a seed investor at Matrix in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Ilya Sukhar is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Investor of Matrix. Ilya previously worked at Y Combinator as a Partner. Ilya Sukhar attended the Cornell University.
- Total investments:
- 59
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Ilya Sukhar invests in
Stages Ilya Sukhar invests in
Countries Ilya Sukhar invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$7M
- Series A
- $6M–$15M
- Series B
- $16M–$63M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (27%)
- SaaS 13 (22%)
- Analytics 7 (12%)
- Developer Tools 7 (12%)
- Information Technology 7 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (36%)
- Series A 20 (34%)
- Series B 4 (7%)
- Series C 2 (3%)
- Series D 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 37 (63%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Thunder Compute
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Thunder Compute develops a cloud GPU platform that provides on-demand GPU infrastructure for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads. The company uses proprietary GPU virtualization and orchestration technology to improve GPU utilization and make computing capacity available at lower costs. Its platformprovides configurable GPU instances with persistent storage, fast provisioning, multi-GPU configurations, and developer tools including a web console, command-line interface, and VS Code integration. Thunder Compute also provides GPU virtualization software that can integrate with existing enterprise environments, including Kubernetes, Slurm, virtual machines, bare-metal GPU hosts, and cloud infrastructure, to increase usable capacity from existing GPU fleets. The company serves developers, researchers, startups, enterprises, and GPU infrastructure providers. | $13M / Series A / Aug 19, 2026 | |
Conductor
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Conductor develops an open-source AI code editor designed to simplify working with multiple automated coding agents at the same time. | $22M / Series A / May 14, 2026 | |
Flock Safety
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Flock Safety develops security solutions using automated license plate recognition cameras. Its main product is its ALPR cameras, which are used by neighborhoods, law enforcement agencies, and businesses to capture and analyze vehicle license plates. These cameras help in solving and preventing crimes by providing actionable data. Thecompany's platform combines the power of communities at scale, including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies – to shape a safer future together. Their full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. | $200M / Series I / Apr 17, 2026 | |
Lemon Slice
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Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets. | $10.5M / Seed / Dec 23, 2025 | |
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Flock Safety
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Flock Safety develops security solutions using automated license plate recognition cameras. Its main product is its ALPR cameras, which are used by neighborhoods, law enforcement agencies, and businesses to capture and analyze vehicle license plates. These cameras help in solving and preventing crimes by providing actionable data. Thecompany's platform combines the power of communities at scale, including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies – to shape a safer future together. Their full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. | Series F / Mar 13, 2025 | |
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Flock Safety
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Flock Safety develops security solutions using automated license plate recognition cameras. Its main product is its ALPR cameras, which are used by neighborhoods, law enforcement agencies, and businesses to capture and analyze vehicle license plates. These cameras help in solving and preventing crimes by providing actionable data. Thecompany's platform combines the power of communities at scale, including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies – to shape a safer future together. Their full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. | $275M / Series H / Mar 13, 2025 | |
Speckle
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Speckle is a collaborative data hub connecting various AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) tools, facilitating effective global project delivery for teams. The company promotes an open ecosystem aimed at overcoming the challenges of working in a fragmented industry, providing digital infrastructure for 3D designs such as buildings andbridges. | $12.5M / Series A / Oct 25, 2024 | |
Double
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Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors. | $3.3M / Seed / May 01, 2024 | |
Parabola
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Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. | $24M / Series B / Jun 28, 2023 | |
Reflect
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Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings. | $1.2M / Seed / Jan 12, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About Matrix
Matrix is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing from idea through Series A. As a close-knit team of former founders and company builders, Matrix has partnered with companies from Apple and FedEx to Oculus and Canva. Other Matrix investments include Fivetran, Suno, Side, Afterpay, CTRL-Labs, Oculus, Zendesk, Hubspot, Apollo GraphQL, FlockSafety, GOAT, Postmates, Acacia Communications, and Sila.
Matrix Contacts
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Andrew Verhalen
General Partner
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Josh Hannah
General Partner
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Scott Khanna
Talent
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Antonio Rodriguez
General Partner
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Dana Stalder
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Ilya Sukhar invest in?
Ilya Sukhar invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ilya Sukhar's check size?
Ilya Sukhar typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$7M at Seed, $6M–$15M at Series A and $16M–$63M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ilya Sukhar participates in.
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When did Ilya Sukhar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ilya Sukhar closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 59 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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