Ilya Sukhar
Entrepreneur & General Partner at Matrix
San Francisco, California
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,000,000.00
Lists including Ilya
Investments
Parabola
Total Funding: $34M
Reflect
Total Funding: $8M
Chameleon
Total Funding: $15M
Mashgin
Total Funding: $74M
Hashboard
Total Funding: $7M
Flock Safety
Total Funding: $380M
Fivetran
Total Funding: $720M
FeaturePeek
Total Funding: $2M
Guilded
Total Funding: $10M
Height
Total Funding: $18M
Work Experience
2017
General Partner
2017
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)
2018
Board Director
2018
2018
Board Director
2018
2022
Board Director
2022
2017
Board Director
2017
2022
Board Director
2022
2017
Board Director
2017
2014 - 2016
Partner
2014 - 2016
2013 - 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.
2011 - 2016
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.