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Matter Venture Partners (MVP) is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded in 2023. Founder Wen Hsieh spent 17 years at Kleiner Perkins (KPCB), one of Silicon Valley's most revered venture firms, rising from Associate to Managing Partner?the only investment professional in the firm's history to do so?and led HardTech investments including DJI, LuxVue (acquired by Apple), and Bloom Energy. Committed to "taking the hard out of HardTech," MVP invests primarily at Series A in semiconductors, robotics, AI, physical AI, energy, space, and advanced manufacturing. Drawing on deep operating experience and a network of strategic LPs that includes leading semiconductor and manufacturing companies, MVP provides hands-on support spanning early customer acquisition, supply chain and manufacturing scale-up, and business model building. MVP is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with presence in Los Angeles, Taiwan, and Japan.
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| Jul 14, 2026 | TYLsemi Raises $43 Million to Accelerate AI Chiplet Infrastructure | TYLsemi Raises $43 Million to Expand AI Chiplet Platform TYLsemi Emerges raises $43M in Early-Stage Funding for Next Generation AI Infrastructure TYLsemi, a provider of the next generation of AI infrastructure, today announced it has emerge... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | TYLsemi Raises $43M in Funding | TYLsemi, a San Jose, CA-based chiplet platform company, raised $43M in funding. The round was led by Matter Venture Partners with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology, and others. The company intends to use the funds to... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | TYLsemi Raises $43 Million To Launch First Full-Stack Chiplet Platform For Custom AI Silicon | TYLsemi, a San Jose-based chiplet platform company, has emerged from stealth and closed an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round to accelerate development of AI infrastructure silicon. The round was led by Matter Venture Part... |
| Jun 29, 2026 | NUS Enterprise Adds Playground Global And Matter Venture Partners To $117 Million VC Programme | NUS Enterprise announced that Playground Global and Matter Venture Partners have joined its $117 million NUS VC Programme. NUS Enterprise is the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore. The program is designed to support... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Eridu Emerges: $200M+ Fuels AI Networking Revolution | Eridu, an AI networking innovator, secured over $200M in Series A funding. The company unveils a high-radix switch architecture. This breakthrough targets the critical "network wall" in AI data centers. Eridu's system dramatically... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Eridu Raises Over $200M in Funding | Eridu, a Saratoga, CA-based developer of high-performance AI networking solutions, raised over $200M in funding. The round was led by Socratic Partners, John Doerr, Hudson River Trading, Capricorn Investment Group, and Matter Venture Partne... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Eridu: $200+ Million Raised By AI Networking Company To Break Through Data Center ‘Network Wall’ | Eridu, an AI networking company building infrastructure designed specifically for large-scale artificial intelligence systems, has emerged from stealth with more than $200 million in funding to address a growing bottleneck in AI data center... |
| Feb 18, 2026 | ChipAgents: $74 Million Closed For Agentic AI Platform For Semiconductor Design | ChipAgents, an agentic AI platform focused on accelerating semiconductor design workflows, announced it has closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series A1 round, bringing its total capital raised to $74 million. The round was led by Matter ... |
| Feb 17, 2026 | ChipAgents Raises $50M in Series A1 Funding | ChipAgents, a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of an agentic AI platform for the semiconductor design industry, raised $50M in Series A1 funding. The round was led by Matter Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Besseme... |
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What has the press written about Matter Venture Partners?
Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Matter Venture Partners, among them “TYLsemi Raises $43 Million to Accelerate AI Chiplet Infrastructure” (Jul 14, 2026) and “TYLsemi Raises $43M in Funding” (Jul 14, 2026).
Is Matter Venture Partners still active?
Yes, Matter Venture Partners is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 1, 2026.