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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.

Neha Suresh
Neha Suresh C0-founder
CMU Masters '24

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.

Peter Peraris
Peter Peraris Founder
CMU Masters

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.

Rory Brenner
Rory Brenner Co-founder
CMU Masters '10
Erin Yanacek
Erin Yanacek Co-founder
CMU MBA '18

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.

Mosam Dabhi
Mosam Dabhi C0-founder
CMU PhD '26
Simon Lucey
Simon Lucey Co-founder
Former CMU faculty member '25

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.

Rohan Singh
Rohan Singh Co-founder
CMU Masters '25
Paul Crech
Paul Crech Co-founder
CMU Masters '25

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.)

Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu Founder and CEO
CMU Professor

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.

Mehul Agarwal
Mehul Agarwal Co_Founder and CEO
CMU Masters '24

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.

Rishi Madhok
Rishi Madhok Founder
CMU Masters ’19

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.

Matineh Eybpoosh
Matineh Eybpoosh Co-founder
CMU PhD ’15
Julian Lamy
Julian Lamy Co-founder
CMU PhD ,19

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).

Hardik Singh
Hardik Singh Co-founder
CMU SCS ‘23
Hans Kumar
Hans Kumar Co-founder
CMU 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

Venture Bridge
Michael Provenzano
Michael Provenzano Co-founder and CEO
CMU Masters ‘18

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.

Manish Agnihotri
Manish Agnihotri Co-founder
CMU Masters ‘22