Ilya Sukhar

Ilya Sukhar General Information

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Mr. Ilya Sukhar serves as General Partner at Matrix. Mr. Sukhar serves as an Advisor at Xenon Ventures. He is a Board Member at August Health, Chameleon (Business/Productivity Software), Parabola, Mashgin, and Fivetran. He was a Board Member at Open Listings and Guilded. He served as Advsior at Heavybit. Before joining Matrix in 2016, he worked on three startups, all acquired. Most recently, he was the co-founder and CEO of Parse, a cloud platform for mobile developers that was acquired by Facebook in 2013. In addition to running Parse as a semi-independent subsidiary, led the teams responsible for all of Facebook's developer-facing products and worked on Messenger. He's an active angel investor and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. He invests across various sectors but is particularly interested in products that leverage hard technical underpinnings to become indispensable to consumers or developers. He's excited to work with hackers who are building mission-driven and engineering-centric companies.