Matthew Papakipos

Director of Applied Research at NVIDIA

Brooklyn, New York

Overview 

Matthew Papakipos is an experienced engineer and investor based in New York City, with a background that includes leadership roles at NVIDIA, Facebook, and Google. He has a strong track record of founding companies such as Anemone B.V. and Pied Piper Robotics, and has made successful investments in startups like Ozarka and Eyegroove. Papakipos has held key positions at major tech companies, including Director of Engineering at Facebook and Engineering Director at Google, and has also founded and led successful ventures in the consumer electronics and robotics sectors.

Work Experience 

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NVIDIA

  • Director of Applied Research

    2024 - Current

NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.

Raised $4,095,000,000.00 from ARPA-E and DARPA.

nvidia.com

Anemone B.V.

  • Founder

    2020 - 2022

    Built a cloud-based application for managing investment portfolios, featuring complete automation of portfolio rebalancing and trading. The software has been managing real money for two years.

Pied Piper Robotics

  • Founder

    2014 - 2021

    Built a home robot from the ground up, from plastic to locomotion systems to control software and mobile applications.

Pop Ventures Ltd.

  • Director

    2017 - 2018

    We invested in five startups in Seoul while living there in 2017-2018.

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Eyegroove

  • Board Member

    2012 - 2016

    I invested the first money in this San Francisco music startup, and served on the Board of Directors

Eyegroove is a social network for mobile video creativity that enables video editing, music presentation, and video effects.

Raised $3,550,000.00 from John Maeda.

eyegroove.com
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Facebook

  • Director of Engineering

    2010 - 2014

    My team built and shipped: Facebook WiFi, Local Ad targeting, and Ad conversion measurement systems. Designed and lead the mobile recruiting pipeline that hired over 200 iOS/Android engineers from 2010-2014. Designed the mobile training program that taught existing employees and new hires how to code for iOS & Android at Facebook. Led the expansion of the Ads engineering team into the Facebook London office.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

staynalive.com
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Google

  • Engineering Director

    2007 - 2010

    Started and managed the Chrome OS project through internal Beta. Managed Chrome user interface team. Managed Chrome HTML5 apis efforts. Started and managed GPU-accelerated 3d APIs for Chrome: O3D, WebGL, etc. Started the NativeClient project: Native C++ code for web apps.

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.

google.com

Peakstream, Inc.

  • CTO

    2005 - 2007

    Founded and grew this company from the ground up. Successfully sold the company in May, 2007.

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NVIDIA

  • Director of Architecture

    1997 - 2003

    Architected graphics chips (GPUs), Managed and directed GPU architecture group.

NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.

Raised $4,095,000,000.00 from ARPA-E and DARPA.

nvidia.com
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SGI

  • Member of Technical Staff

    1996 - 1997

    Graphics driver development and chip architecture. Developed the Impact and Odyssey products.

Silicon Graphics provides workstations for conceptual design analysis and simulation of 3D objects.

sgi.com

Education 

Investments 

Ozarka

Seed

Total funding: $290K

OP.GG

Series Unknown

Total funding amount not yet available

Eyegroove

Angel

Total funding: $1.1M

Snibbe Studio

Seed

Total funding: $100K

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