# Patrick Malatack

> Patrick Malatack is a seed investor at Matrix backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmalatack
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/patrickmalatack
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/patrickmalatack

Patrick Malatack is a seed investor at Matrix in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Patrick Malatack currently works as the Partner for Matrix Partners. He previously worked at Twilio Inc. as the VP of Product.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| Developer Platform | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 8% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Estonia | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Riza | Riza offers APIs that let LLMs safely and autonomously run the code they write, so you can build more reliable, powerful, and accurate AI apps. API-first, no infra setup. Code starts running in <10ms. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 16, 2025 | https://riza.io/ |
| Askel.ai | Askel.ai elevates SaaS with embedded AI automation. | $401.5K | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2024 | https://askel.ai/ |
| Objective | Objective, Inc. was created for teams like yours, who care about business outcomes over convoluted pipelines, and customer delight over endless tinkering. Our AI knows what users are looking for, even when the true meaning of your data is buried deep inside pixels and paragraphs. | $13M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 | http://objective.inc |
| CommonGround-AI | CommonGround-AI provides a new 3D video platform. | $25M | Series A | Nov 30, 2022 | https://www.commonground-ai.com/ |
| Courier | Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels – like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger – using factors like "is the user online?" and "which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?" | $35M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 | https://www.courier.com |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 | https://hookdeck.com |
| M3O | Next Generation Cloud Platform | $2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 21, 2021 | https://m3o.com |
| Propel | Propel is a serverless analytics platform to power customer-facing web and mobile applications. The platform allows developers to quickly build usage metering, insights dashboards, product metrics, and advanced reporting without having to manage additional complex data infrastructure or create new data silos. They streamline product developmentwith APIs that integrate seamlessly with the most popular charting libraries, including ECharts, ChartJS, Highcharts, D3, and many more.Propel was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $4.6M | Seed | Feb 01, 2021 | https://www.propeldata.com |
| CommonGround-AI | CommonGround-AI provides a new 3D video platform. | $19M | Seed | Dec 29, 2020 | https://www.commonground-ai.com/ |
| Courier | Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels – like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger – using factors like "is the user online?" and "which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?" | $10.1M | Series A | Sep 14, 2020 | https://www.courier.com |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blossom Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blossom-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Grove Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grove-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Slack Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slack-fund) — VC Fund, 2 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 Patrick Malatack invest in?

Patrick Malatack invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Patrick Malatack?

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### When did Patrick Malatack last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Malatack closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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