# Matter Venture Partners

> Matter Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manhattan Beach, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.mattervp.com/

Matter Venture Partners is a VC fund in Manhattan Beach focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Matter Venture Partners operates as a venture capital investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 38% |
| Robotics | 5 | 24% |
| Software | 4 | 19% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 19% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 14% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 33% |
| Seed | 6 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Series D | 2 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 67% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Volta | Volta is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform. The company develops, finances, builds, and operates AI factories by integrating institutional capital, powered land, data centers, compute, software, and operations. | $300M | Series A | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| TYLsemi | TYLsemi is revolutionizing how AI infrastructure silicon is developed by producing standards-based, production-ready chiplets specifically designed for current multi-die systems. | $43M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| OpenLight | OpenLight is a manufacturing industry. | $50M | Series A | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Anvil Robotics | Anvil develops a platform that integrates robotics hardware and software for building physical AI applications. The company provides configurable devkits that include robot arms, sensors, cameras, and compute systems designed for tasks such as teleoperation, data collection, and model training. Its platform supports real-time control systems,inverse kinematics solvers, and compatibility with frameworks such as ROS2 and LeRobot, enabling teams to develop and deploy robotic workflows. Anvil’s ecosystem allows users to mix and customize components across different robotic configurations, supporting research, enterprise, and startup use cases. | $5.5M | Seed | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| Rhoda AI | Rhoda is building a new class of robot foundation model designed to bring general intelligence into the physical world. By combining internet-scale video pretraining with closed-loop video predictive control, Rhoda aims to enable robots that can adapt, generalize, and operate autonomously across real-world environments. The company works withleading industrial partners across manufacturing and logistics. | $450M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Eridu | Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI. | $200M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| ChipAgents | Alpha Design AI is reinventing semiconductor design and verification through advanced AI agent techniques. Alpha Design AI is pioneering an AI-native approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), transforming how chips are designed and verified. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, aims to boost RTL design and verification productivity by 10x,driving innovation across industries with smarter, more efficient chip design. | $50M | Series A | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Q.ai | Q.ai provides systems designed to support high data throughput, multilingual interaction, privacy controls, and accessibility features within communication workflows. Its technology is used to enhance real-time and asynchronous interactions between users who operate across different languages and regions. Q.ai’s platform is designed to integrateinto existing applications and services, supporting organizations that require consistent communication standards across distributed teams and audiences. |  | Private Equity | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Kargo | Kargo's mission is to build a connective tissue between the physical world of freight and the digital ecosystem used to manage it. Kargo believes that advancements in smart infrastructure are critical to enabling a safer and more efficient future for logistics. Kargo's loading dock sensor platform verifies all incoming and outgoingfreight, aggregating data that enables shippers and carriers to efficiently manage dock operations, switch out suppliers and understand material flow in real time.Kargo was formerly known as Cognisense. It was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. | $42M | Series B | Dec 22, 2025 |  |
| Ruochuang Technology | Ruochuang Technology specializes in providing low-speed robots. |  | Seed | Nov 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Catapult Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catapult-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MediaTek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mediatek) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tyche Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tyche-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Matter Venture Partners invest in?

Matter Venture Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matter Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matter Venture Partners closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 21 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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