Matt Hershenson
Founder of Playground Global
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.