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Investor profile

Matt Hershenon

General Partner, Playground Global

About

Matt Hershenon co-founded Danger, the company behind the T-Mobile Sidekick, alongside Andy Rubin and Joe Britt, giving him rare hands-on experience building a mass-market consumer hardware and software platform before becoming a venture investor. At Playground Global, he works as a technical co-founder for portfolio companies, helping create the firm's model of providing startups with access to an internal engineering team and modular hardware platform so founders don't have to build complex hardware and AI infrastructure from scratch. Matt Hershenon co-founded Danger, the company behind the T-Mobile Sidekick, alongside Andy Rubin and Joe Britt, giving him rare hands-on experience building a mass-market consumer hardware and software platform before becoming a venture investor. At Playground Global, he works as a technical co-founder for portfolio companies, helping create the firm's model of providing startups with access to an internal engineering team and modular hardware platform so founders don't have to build complex hardware and AI infrastructure from scratch.

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Investment focus

Stages
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
AI
BioTech
Chips
Robotics
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $20M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA