Wen Hsieh

Founding Managing Partner at Matter Venture Partners

Wen H. Hsieh, Ph.D. is the Founding Managing Partner at Matter Venture Partners since January 2023. Prior to this role, Wen was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins from February 2006 to January 2023 and an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company from January 2001 to January 2006. Wen holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Biology, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Electrical Engineering, all from Caltech.

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Matter Venture Partners

At Matter, we’re committed to taking the “hard” out of HardTech. Beyond capital and advice, we bring execution heft and strategic leverage. Through years of experience as hands-on investors, founders, and operational executives, we know how to substantially accelerate the process of bringing HardTech innovation to scale. We get customers to our startups early; to shortcut product-market fit. We build business models to scale sustainably from day one. And we’ve built a collection of strategic LPs - the same companies that enabled the fabless model for semiconductors, the rise of cloud computing, and more - to be a diversified manufacturing and technology scale-up supply chain for our startups. We’ve already been doing this for nearly two decades in our work as founders and as VCs at Kleiner Perkins, where we helped companies create the world’s most efficient fuel cells, the most power-efficient chips, and the most capable drones. Now, as Matter, we’re solely focused on building the next generation of HardTech startups developing the technologies that matter most, in the world we actually live in.


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