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Plaid Matrix Fund partners with early-stage companies building innovative products across computing, robotics, AI, and engineering. Below are companies we are proud to support
ProcIndex is developing AI accounting agents, specialized for the construction and manufacturing verticals. The company is a YC Summer ‘25 and VentureBridge ‘25 participant. Plaid Matrix invested $100K through a SAFE round at a $23M valuation cap.
Proxon is building a management layer for any AI workforce, mapping the AI systems already running across the company, assigning ownership and policy, tying spend to teams and outcomes, measuring adoption and performance, and helping effective workflows spread.
Perforated is creating the data-efficiency layer for machine learning that helps teams build smaller, more accurate models using less training data. Plaid Matrix invested $150K.
Oryn AI is building a physics-aware perception layer that converts 2D visual input into structured 3D representations usable by robotic systems. $500K invested in a priced round with a post-money valuation of $20M.
OctaPulse is developing aquaculture technology designed to improve fish farming through data-driven automation and breeding. Plaid Matrix invested $150K in OctaPulse through a SAFE round.
Nunchux AI is developing systems software that dramatically accelerates image and video generation models, delivering 3x–100x faster inference while maintaining comparable output quality. Plaid Matrix invested $100K via post-money SAFE ($110M cap.)
Koyal is developing an agentic AI film making platform that allows users to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized and visually compelling stories. Plaid Matrix invested $100K in Koyal through a SAFE round.
Terrabyte is building an “earth search engine” powered by a proprietary geospatial foundation model that converts petabytes imagery into searchable embeddings. The company was co-founded by Rishi Madhok, who holds a Master’s in Computer Vision from the Robotics Institute.
Powerline is managing fixed site large scale batteries for the grid with Battery CoPilot. Battery CoPilot gives trading signals and tuning advice for the batteries, independent of the battery vendor. Founders Matineh Eybpoosh and Julian
Lamy have completed PhD’s from CMU.
Boost Robotics is a YC Spring ’25 company building robots for data center environments—an increasingly critical and under-automated market. The company was co-founded by Hardik Singh (CIT ’19, SCS ’23) and Hans Kumar (CIT ’19, SCS ’23).
Clear Solar is a VentureBridge ’25 company commercializing dust-remediation technology originally developed by NASA for use on terrestrial solar panels. Co-founder and CEO Michael Provenzano is a 2018 Tepper MBA alumnus

Coheso builds AI-driven workflow software for in-house legal teams, enabling faster responses to routine questions and improving efficiency on more complex legal work. Co-founder Manish Agnihotri holds a Master’s degree in IT Strategy from Carnegie Mellon University.