Matt Robinson

Managing Partner and Founder of Heroic Ventures

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
23
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8
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4
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7
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Apr 2026
Havoc is the leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy. Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. Havoc connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc was founded in 2024 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Learn more at havocai.com.
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Mar 2025
Rugged Robotics is a modern, solution-oriented company based in Houston Texas. We combine experience and expertise from the construction and robotics industries to build practical solutions to real-world problems faced by construction crews every day. We have designed and built the world’s first fully self-contained robotic system that prints detailed, life-size layouts directly onto concrete floors. We provide a complete layout service, parsing digital design data from the CAD models and deploying with our robotic platform to print detailed interior layouts, ultimately enabling faster, more accurate installation across construction.
late stageConstruction
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Mar 2025
Were Anysphere, the team behind Cursor. Our mission is to automate coding. Our approach is to build the engineer of the future: a human-AI programmer thats an order of magnitude more effective than any one programmer. This hybrid engineer will have effortless control over their codebase and no low-entropy keystrokes. They will iterate at the speed of their judgment, even in the most complex systems. Using a combination of AI and human ingenuity, they will out-smart and out-engineer the best pure-AI system. We are a group of researchers and engineers. We build software and models to invent at the edge of whats useful and whats possible. Cursor has already improved the lives of millions of programmers.
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Aug 2024
Modelcode.ai, Inc. employs innovative, proprietary Generative AI to automate Code Modernization. The company, founded and led by Silicon Valley veteran entrepreneurs, engineers, and well-known AI experts with multiple exits, focuses on solving tech debt, including, for example, large-scale refactoring, the transformation of legacy monolithic code/service to modular code/micro-services, C# to Java translation, Python 2 to Python 3 upgrades, automated unit testing, and documentation generation.
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Mar 2023
Clarity Movement Co. is a team of passionate engineers and scientists focused on making a positive impact in the world by tackling the global air pollution crisis. We leverage our expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to create solutions that empower communities to make more informed decisions and improve quality of life. Having already developed the world’s most accurate low-cost particulate matter sensor, Clarity is now deploying the next generation of dense air quality monitoring networks around the world to build smarter cities through smarter data.
Investor
Jul 2022
Realtime has invented a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds, enabling robots to function in unstructured, collaborative work-spaces, reacting to other motions as soon as they are perceived
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Sep 2021
Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space. We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.
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Sep 2021
Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data and more. Child care providers use Winnie to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business efficiently. Winnie was started in early 2016 by tech veterans Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall. Working moms of two kids each, Sara and Anne became frustrated with the long search to find child care for their young children. Now Winnie is used throughout the United States and is helping connect millions of parents with high quality child care.
Board Observer & Investor
Oct 2020
The Dyrt is the largest consumer subscription software platform for campers in the US. The Dyrt community has crowdsourced over 8 million campground reviews, photos and tips across the US - more than any other camping platform. The Dyrt app is a top ranked app for camping in both iOS and Google Play, and their website is tracking at 30M visits per year. The Dyrt is an open community that lets campers search, review and book campgrounds. The Dyrt PRO (a $36 per year upgrade subscription) gives PRO users discounts at nearly 1000 campgrounds, as well as provides enhanced camping search features such as public land map layers, offline access, and road trip planning tools. The Dyrt PRO subscription was launched in 2020 and has experienced rapid growth with a new user signing up for The Dyrt PRO about every 3 minutes.
Board Member
Nov 2018
Totum enables the worldwide tracking and monitoring of billions of assets using our constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellites and power-optimized device silicon. We're flipping the script on what it means to be connected by satellite - from network of last resort to network of first choice. How? * Global coverage w/ indoor reach. * Postage stamp modem, including antenna * The cost? Let's just say we stack up very nicely against cellular IoT
Investor
Nov 2017
We believe in a smarter future and want to create new opportunities for innovation. In order to achieve this, we’re rethinking compute architectures for the future of computer processing.
Investor
Sep 2017
On a mission to create trust with every financial transaction, Truework provides a one-stop, customizable platform for income and employment verification that is more efficient, accurate, and secure. We protect consumers by providing transparency and control into how sensitive employee data is shared, while helping thousands each day get approved faster for loans, mortgages, and other important financial transactions.
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Sep 2016
Ethos makes getting life insurance instant and easy. Our approach blends technology and industry expertise, and the human touch to deliver an incredible life insurance experience. Ethos has raised over $400 million of capital from Sequoia, Accel, Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Softbank and more. We are one of the largest U.S. life insurance issuers. We continue to scale quickly and are looking for passionate Ethosaurs to protect the next million families.
early stageInsurance
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Sep 2016
talech provides merchants with a powerful yet easy to use point of sale software with rich analytics and deep insights. Built by a team from Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, Apple, Zynga and Oracle, talech's mission is to help small and medium sized businesses run their operations better and grow their sales in a competitive environment. We believe the corner store should have as much insight into their business as a big box retailer or commerce site. For restaurants, cafes, bars, retailers, salons, spas, barbers and so much more, talech offers a range of cost-effective point of sale options that have the potential to grow revenue, control costs and improve operations. From talech Mobile which gives small businesses the essentials to run their operations and deliver a quality customer experience without paying monthly software fees or paying for lots of expensive hardware, to multi-location businesses with high turnover and large numbers of employees, talech offers a variety of hardware and software configurations to suit your needs and your pocket.
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Jul 2016
CANVAS Technology is a robotics company with a mission to provide end-to-end autonomous delivery of goods. We’re creating safe and powerful autonomous technology that can power both indoor and outdoor driving.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Havoc is the leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy. Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. Havoc connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc was founded in 2024 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Learn more at havocai.com.
2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Rugged Robotics is a modern, solution-oriented company based in Houston Texas. We combine experience and expertise from the construction and robotics industries to build practical solutions to real-world problems faced by construction crews every day. We have designed and built the world’s first fully self-contained robotic system that prints detailed, life-size layouts directly onto concrete floors. We provide a complete layout service, parsing digital design data from the CAD models and deploying with our robotic platform to print detailed interior layouts, ultimately enabling faster, more accurate installation across construction.
late stageConstruction
Investor
Mar 2025
Were Anysphere, the team behind Cursor. Our mission is to automate coding. Our approach is to build the engineer of the future: a human-AI programmer thats an order of magnitude more effective than any one programmer. This hybrid engineer will have effortless control over their codebase and no low-entropy keystrokes. They will iterate at the speed of their judgment, even in the most complex systems. Using a combination of AI and human ingenuity, they will out-smart and out-engineer the best pure-AI system. We are a group of researchers and engineers. We build software and models to invent at the edge of whats useful and whats possible. Cursor has already improved the lives of millions of programmers.
2024
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Aug 2024
Modelcode.ai, Inc. employs innovative, proprietary Generative AI to automate Code Modernization. The company, founded and led by Silicon Valley veteran entrepreneurs, engineers, and well-known AI experts with multiple exits, focuses on solving tech debt, including, for example, large-scale refactoring, the transformation of legacy monolithic code/service to modular code/micro-services, C# to Java translation, Python 2 to Python 3 upgrades, automated unit testing, and documentation generation.
2023
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Mar 2023
Clarity Movement Co. is a team of passionate engineers and scientists focused on making a positive impact in the world by tackling the global air pollution crisis. We leverage our expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to create solutions that empower communities to make more informed decisions and improve quality of life. Having already developed the world’s most accurate low-cost particulate matter sensor, Clarity is now deploying the next generation of dense air quality monitoring networks around the world to build smarter cities through smarter data.
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