# Matt Turck

> Matt Turck is a Series A investor at Hardwired NYC backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 99 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hardwired NYC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hardwired-nyc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 99
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mattturck
- Website: http://mattturck.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.turck

Matt Turck is a Series A investor at Hardwired NYC in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Matt Turck is based out of New York, New York, and is the General Partner and Managing Director of FirstMark and Board of Directors of Daytona. Matt previously worked at Bloomberg Beta as a Managing Director. Matt Turck attended Yale Law School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7.3M |
| Series A | $7M–$23M |
| Series B | $17M–$73M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 16% |
| Analytics | 8 | 8% |
| SaaS | 7 | 7% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 7% |

98 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 31% |
| Seed | 17 | 17% |
| Series B | 16 | 16% |
| Series C | 15 | 15% |
| Series D | 5 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 35% |
| France | 4 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SurrealDB | SurrealDB develops a multi-model database platform designed to handle document, graph, and relational data within a single system. The platform supports SQL-like querying while enabling real-time data synchronization and event-driven updates across applications. It provides built-in features such as authentication, authorization, and access controlat the database layer. SurrealDB operates across various environments, including embedded deployments, single-node instances, and distributed clusters. The system is designed to support modern application development by combining flexible data modeling with transactional consistency and programmable logic inside the database. | $23M | Series A | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Daytona | Daytona is an enterprise-grade alternative to GitHub Codespaces for administering self-hosted, secure, and standardized development environments. | $24M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Estuary | Estuary helps companies go real-time by connecting to their data sources and turning their databases, warehouses, and SaaS tools into real-time services without engineering effort. | $17M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| TensorZero | TensorZero is an open-source framework for building production-grade LLM applications. It unifies an LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluations, and experimentation. | $7.3M | Seed | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| ClickHouse | ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that focuses on real-time analytical reporting. It enables users to execute complex SQL queries efficiently, making it suitable for applications that require fast data processing and analysis. The system is particularly effective for big data environments, allowingorganizations to manage and analyze large volumes of information seamlessly. ClickHouse supports various data ingestion methods and offers features that facilitate data warehousing and observability. Its architecture is designed to optimize performance and scalability, catering to the needs of sales teams and data analysts seeking actionable insights from their data. | $350M | Series C | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Sparta | At Sparta, we believe oil traders deserve more powerful tools than the currently available. This is what sparked our vision behind the Sparta platform. Whether it is accessing our platform from the desktop or a mobile device, we provide traders with automated, live trading insights so you can focus on what matters the most: making decisions fasterand capturing more market opportunities. | $42M | Series B | Feb 24, 2025 |  |
| Synthesia | Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $180M | Series D | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| SurrealDB | SurrealDB develops a multi-model database platform designed to handle document, graph, and relational data within a single system. The platform supports SQL-like querying while enabling real-time data synchronization and event-driven updates across applications. It provides built-in features such as authentication, authorization, and access controlat the database layer. SurrealDB operates across various environments, including embedded deployments, single-node instances, and distributed clusters. The system is designed to support modern application development by combining flexible data modeling with transactional consistency and programmable logic inside the database. | $15M | Series A | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| H Company | Holistic AI provides artificial intelligence models within the technology sector and helps in data analysis. | $100M | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Lago | Lago synchronizes customer data to business tools. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New Castle County, Delaware. | $15M | Series A | Mar 14, 2024 |  |

10 of 99 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

## About Hardwired NYC

VC Fund · New York, United States

Hardwired NYC is a social community that connects leaders, customers and individuals to share ideas related to technology.

1 contacts available at Hardwired NYC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Turck | Organizer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-turck |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Turck invest in?

Matt Turck invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 99 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 Matt Turck's check size?

Matt Turck typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7.3M at Seed, $7M–$23M at Series A and $17M–$73M 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 Matt Turck participates in.

### When did Matt Turck last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Turck closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 99 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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