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Investing in Parabola
Talks about Startups, Investment in Parabola and Series A funding
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Ilya Sukhar
General Partner at Matrix
San Francisco, California
Overview
Ilya Sukhar is an Entrepreneur and General Partner at Matrix in San Francisco, California. He has made significant investments in companies such as Fivetran (Series D) and Flock Safety (Series E), and serves as a Board Director for several successful startups, including Chameleon and Mashgin.
Work Experience
General Partner
2017 - Current
Current: Flock Safety, Fivetran, August Health, Mashgin, Parabola, Sieve, Chameleon, and some others. Past: Hashboard (acq. by Hex), Guilded (acq. by Roblox), Open Listings (acq. by Opendoor)
Matrix is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing from idea through Series A.
Board Director
2018
Flock Safety provides a full-service tech solution that helps communities prevent crime, shaping a safer future together.
Raised $380,584,142.00 from Bedrock, Initialized Capital, Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital Partners, Matrix, Spark Capital, 776 Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Board Director
2018
Board Director
2022
August Health is a technology platform to support a clinically linked continuum of housing and care.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Matrix, Arnie Whitman, Dan Baty and General Catalyst.
Board Director
2017
Mashgin is a software company that makes AI and computer vision checkout systems.
Raised $73,695,000.00 from Matrix and New Enterprise Associates.
Board Director
2022
Chameleon is a customer relationship management software company.
Board Director
2017
Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.
Raised $34,200,000.00 from J Zac Stein, AJ Frank, Otherwise Fund, Flexport Ventures, Cristina Cordova, Kyle Parrish, Good Friends, Melissa Tan, Sarah Scharf and Zack Kanter.
Part-time Partner
2014 - 2016
Developer Products
2013 - 2016
In addition to Parse, I led the teams responsible for all of Facebook's developer-facing products including Login, Graph API, Sharing SDKs, Social Plugins, App Links, etc. These teams built many of the products that launched at F8 2014 and F8 2015, where I keynoted alongside Mark. We also worked on stabilizing Facebook's APIs and fixing privacy issues to great effect. The last thing I worked on was building a developer platform (bots and such) into Messenger which launched at F8 2016.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Co-founder & CEO
2011 - 2016
Parse was a cloud service for mobile developers. Our cross-platform SDKs were tightly coupled with a novel JavaScript-based server runtime and a beautiful, simple data management tool. These SDKs provided developers with data storage, user authentication, push notifications, analytics, and much more -- everything necessary to get to market quickly. Facebook acquired the company for ~$100m in April 2013, intending to build a business akin to Amazon Web Services, and we operated for two years as a semi-independent subsidiary. Facebook ultimately chose to exit the hosting business but Parse continues to thrive as an open source project with official support at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc. At its peak, the hosted platform served hundreds of thousands of active developers, hundreds of thousands of apps, and over half a billion active devices. I did just about everything conceivable from writing the first lines of code to negotiating the acquisition. It was a very fun ride.