# Ilya Sukhar

> Ilya Sukhar is a seed investor at Matrix backing Software and SaaS. See 56 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 56
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyasukhar
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ilyasu
- Website: http://ilya.sukhar.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/is

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$7M |
| Series A | $5M–$18M |
| Series B | $16M–$63M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 27% |
| SaaS | 13 | 23% |
| Analytics | 7 | 13% |
| Developer Tools | 7 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 11% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 38% |
| Series A | 18 | 32% |
| Series B | 4 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |
| Series D | 2 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 36 | 64% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Conductor | 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 | https://x.com/conductor_build |
| Flock Safety | 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 | https://www.flocksafety.com |
| Lemon Slice | Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets. | $10.5M | Seed | Dec 23, 2025 | https://x.com/LemonSliceAI |
| Flock Safety | 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 | https://www.flocksafety.com |
| Flock Safety | 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 | https://www.flocksafety.com |
| Speckle | 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 | https://speckle.systems/ |
| Double | Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors. | $3.3M | Seed | May 01, 2024 | https://www.double.finance/ |
| Parabola | 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 | https://www.parabola.io/ |
| Reflect | Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 12, 2023 | https://reflect.app |
| Chameleon | Chameleon is a platform for better user onboarding. It's built to give designers, product managers, marketers, and customer success managers greater control over their product's user experience.With Chameleon, teams can quickly build, test, and deploy in-product tours using a WYSIWYG editor. It is simple to implement on any website orwebapp (a few lines of code) and automatically collects analytics to enable a data-driven approach to improving user onboarding. | $13M | Series A | Sep 14, 2022 | https://www.trychameleon.com/ |

10 of 56 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Meritech Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meritech-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Matrix

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Matrix.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Verhalen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-w-verhalen |
| Josh Hannah | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-hannah |
| Scott Khanna | Talent | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-khanna |
| Antonio Rodriguez | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-rodriguez |
| Dana Stalder | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dana-stalder |

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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 56 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, $5M–$18M 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.

### How do I contact Ilya Sukhar?

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### When did Ilya Sukhar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ilya Sukhar closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 56 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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