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Matt Hershenson

Founder of Playground Global

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Matt Hershenson is a prominent investor in early stage, deep technology startups, specializing in sectors like DeepTech, Hardware, Robotics, and AI. He has served as a board member for various successful companies including Insamo, Outpace Bio, and RightHand Robotics, and co-founded Playground Global, a notable achievement in his career.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2023 - Current

  • Board Member

    2021

Outpace Bio develops innovative cell therapies to enhance cancer treatment efficacy.

Raised $199,000,000.00 from Qatar Investment Authority, RA Capital Management, Artis Ventures (AV), Mubadala Capital, Breton Capital Management, Sahsen Ventures, Abstract, Civilization Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments and Black Opal Ventures.

  • Co-Founder

    2014

Playground is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders

  • Board Member

    2019

RightHand Robotics provides end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery.

Raised $101,291,107.00 from Zebra Ventures, Google Ventures, EPSON X Investment, F-Prime Capital, Safar Partners, Menlo Ventures, THL, SoftBank Vision Fund, Future Shape and Global Brain Corporation.

  • Board Member

    2018

Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.

Raised $219,650,000.00 from Capital TEN, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, GlobalFoundries, Intel Capital, IAG Capital Partners, VentureTech Alliance, Boardman Bay Capital Management, Tyche Partners, NVIDIA and Applied Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

Inscopix is pioneering a new paradigm in the quest to understand the brain and its diseases.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Floodgate, AME Cloud Ventures and Playground Global.

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2021

Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.

Raised $740,000,000.00 from KDDI, Axon, Linse Capital, Linse Capital, Hercules Capital, Axon, Andreessen Horowitz, DoCoMo Capital, Next47 and UP Partners.

  • Director of Android Hardware

    2010 - 2014

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Partner, Hardware Engineering

    2008 - 2010

    I came to Microsoft as a result of Microsoft's acquisition of Danger

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

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