Matt Rhodes-Kropf

Managing Partner at Tectonic Ventures and Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
25
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14
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5
Mid stage
1
Late stage
22y
Years active

Portfolio

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Jul 2025
Artificial Efficient Intelligence. AGI Tomorrow, AEI Today.
Investor
Feb 2025
Voyage (now part of MongoDB) is a team of leading AI researchers and engineers, dedicated to building embeddings models, customized for domains and companies, for better retrieval accuracy and RAG applications.
Seed Investor
Jun 2024
Guide labs is a product-focused AI research company where we are building a new class of interpretable AI systems that humans and domain experts can understand and reliably debug. We make these models available via our API. The prevailing paradigm in machine learning and AI is to train models as monoliths optimized solely for performance. However, this results in models that are difficult to work with, and leaves critical model properties at the mercy of the optimization process. At Guide Labs we are taking a different path. We believe you cannot reliably debug, steer, and align a model you don’t understand. We are rethinking the model architecture, loss function, and entire pipeline to constrain the model training process such that the models we get are more easily understandable, their errors easier to identify and fix, and easy to align. Email: info@guidelabs.ai
Investor
Apr 2024
Neurophos makes the OPU, a photonic AI chip that delivers the performance of a 3,000-pound server in the size and power envelope of a single GPU. Neurophos’ novel optical “transistor” unlocks terawatt-scale compute at a gigawatt-scale footprint, fitting millions of weights in the area of a postage stamp, that would otherwise occupy a full square-meter.
Investor
Aug 2023
Forta is clearing the path to quality healthcare. We continuously improve the patient journey and deliver personalized care by applying AI and machine learning. The first care vertical Forta is improving is autism ABA therapy. Care is difficult to access and the delivery model must be reinvented to provide early access to families. 1 in 44 children [CDC, 2021] is diagnosed to be on the autism spectrum. We are looking for driven, innovative, patient-focused individuals to join our team as we reinvent the care and tools available to neurodiverse families.
Investor
May 2023
Creativity, compassion and change drive us: we innovate and lead the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. We believe in whole patient care: upfront and ongoing. We believe in a better way to integrate behavioral health. At evolvedMD, we are leading the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. How? We use a uniquely upfront, innovative, and ongoing approach that places our clinicians on site and in person at each of the practices we serve. As one of America’s largest and most seasoned companies dedicated to integration, we fully embed behavioral health specialists into a collaborative team. evolvedMD is committed to meeting patients where they are most comfortable: whether that is in person and on site at your practice location or virtual. We offer early, comprehensive, and dedicated care to help patients achieve the best possible behavioral health outcomes.
Investor
Jul 2021
OmniML is an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) company that aims to effortlessly empower AI everywhere.
Investor, Board Member
Jan 2021
Fortune 500 companies around the world rely on Arcion’s cloud-native, distributed Change Data Capture (CDC) technology to drive fast and accurate data insights. Arcion helps enterprises eliminate slow, brittle data pipelines and the maintenance overheads. Break down data silos through high volume, scalable data pipelines with guaranteed transactional integrity.
Investor
Jan 2021
Butlr is the world’s first and only 100% anonymous people sensing and occupancy detection platform that helps enterprises all over the world improve their workplace planning and optimize their operations. Using just body heat and advanced AI technologies, Butlr understands presence and traffic without capturing any identities—ever.
Seed Investor
Dec 2020
Founded by experts in marketplace, retail, technology, operations, finance and strategy, at Merama we invest in your company, becoming a strategic partner to exponentiate the growth of each e-commerce business we work with. Our mission is to be the best and largest group of e-commerce companies in Latin America. Contact us at: info@merama.io
early stageManufacturing
Investor
Nov 2020
EvidenceCare is a new type of clinical decision support system (CDSS) with its EHR-integrated and content-agnostic platform that empowers better care decisions by improving clinical workflows. Founded in response to the professional experience of emergency physician Dr. Brian Fengler, the platform provides clinicians with evidence-based insights and measurable outcomes. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, EvidenceCare is one of the top INC 5000 fastest growing healthcare tech companies and has won multiple awards for its innovative products and platform.
Seed Investor
Nov 2019
Perch is a technology-driven commerce company that acquires and operates great brands at scale. We have acquired and operate over 100 brands, and we've raised over $900M from investors such as SoftBank and Spark Capital. Perch has a unique combination of Amazon, eCommerce, technology, and supply chain expertise, with our CEO having previously designed and built the Wayfair Delivery Network - taking large parcel deliveries from ~1 month down to 2 days.
Investor, Advisor
Sep 2019
Rendered.ai is a platform-as-a-service for data scientists, data engineers, and developers who need to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data generation for machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias, security, and privacy issues when compared with the use or acquisition of real-world data. Rendered.ai moves the process of creating and exploiting synthetic data closer to the business need by providing a collaborative environment, samples, and cloud resources to quickly get started defining new data generation channels, creating datasets in high performance compute environments, and providing tools to characterize and catalog existing and synthetic datasets. To try out our hosted PaaS, request access here: https://hubs.li/Q012NcJm0 We offer a flexible subscription business model that allows customers to generate as much data as they want for a flat monthly fee.
Investor, Board Observer
Aug 2018
Trusted by thousands of software engineers, WayScript is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that enables scalable, single click development environments. The platform empowers early stage, high growth engineering teams with scalable, modern infrastructure so they can focus on product instead of battling Ops. With WayScript, spin up customizable development environments which integrate Docker, Kubernetes, and all your third-party dev tooling (GitHub, Datadog, PagerDuty, Jenkins, CircleCI, Auth0, etc.). WayScript removes the activation energy for internal tools, and unlocks rapid testing, staging, and production environments. WayScript is pre-configured to each organizations business and security standards, so as you scale, WayScript ensures that all development is meeting internal policies. WayScript is self-hosted, air-gapped, and SOC-2 Type 2 compliant and spins up in under 1 hour on your AWS. To learn more and get started with WayScript, visit wayscript.com or email us at admins@wayscript.com.
Investor
Aug 2018
Founded in 2018, TIFIN is an AI and innovation platform for better wealth outcomes. Founded by Dr. Vinay Nair, TIFIN creates and operates new companies that apply data science, AI, and technology to address frictions in wealth and asset management. TIFIN’s companies have included 55ip (sold to JP Morgan) and currently include Paralel, Magnifi, TIFIN Wealth, TIFIN Give, TIFIN AG, TIFIN AMP, Sage, Helix, TIFIN@Work, and TIFIN India. TIFIN has been backed by JP Morgan, Morningstar, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners, and Broadridge among others. Learn more about us at tifin.com tifinfintech.substack.com
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2025
Investor
Jul 2025
Artificial Efficient Intelligence. AGI Tomorrow, AEI Today.
Investor
Feb 2025
Voyage (now part of MongoDB) is a team of leading AI researchers and engineers, dedicated to building embeddings models, customized for domains and companies, for better retrieval accuracy and RAG applications.
2024
Seed Investor
Jun 2024
Guide labs is a product-focused AI research company where we are building a new class of interpretable AI systems that humans and domain experts can understand and reliably debug. We make these models available via our API. The prevailing paradigm in machine learning and AI is to train models as monoliths optimized solely for performance. However, this results in models that are difficult to work with, and leaves critical model properties at the mercy of the optimization process. At Guide Labs we are taking a different path. We believe you cannot reliably debug, steer, and align a model you don’t understand. We are rethinking the model architecture, loss function, and entire pipeline to constrain the model training process such that the models we get are more easily understandable, their errors easier to identify and fix, and easy to align. Email: info@guidelabs.ai
Investor
Apr 2024
Neurophos makes the OPU, a photonic AI chip that delivers the performance of a 3,000-pound server in the size and power envelope of a single GPU. Neurophos’ novel optical “transistor” unlocks terawatt-scale compute at a gigawatt-scale footprint, fitting millions of weights in the area of a postage stamp, that would otherwise occupy a full square-meter.
2023
Investor
Aug 2023
Forta is clearing the path to quality healthcare. We continuously improve the patient journey and deliver personalized care by applying AI and machine learning. The first care vertical Forta is improving is autism ABA therapy. Care is difficult to access and the delivery model must be reinvented to provide early access to families. 1 in 44 children [CDC, 2021] is diagnosed to be on the autism spectrum. We are looking for driven, innovative, patient-focused individuals to join our team as we reinvent the care and tools available to neurodiverse families.
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