Our Team

Two Decades of Experience

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.

Haomiao HuangFounding Partner

Haomiao is a robotics researcher turned founder turned investor. He is particularly passionate about companies bringing digital innovation into physical economy businesses, with a focus on sectors like logistics, manufacturing, and transportation and on advanced technologies like robotics and AI.

Haomiao spent 4 years investing in HardTech alongside Wen at Kleiner Perkins. Prior to that he founded the smart home security startup Kuna, built self-driving cars at Caltech and, as part of his Ph.D. research at Stanford, pioneered the aerodynamics and control of multi-rotor UAVs. Kuna was part of YCombinator’s Winter 14 batch. Haomiao was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford and received his M.S., Ph.D in Aeronautics & Astronautics. He graduated from Caltech B.S. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Control and Dynamical Systems.

Haomiao is a passionate reader on history and politics and loves to cook — particularly Texas BBQ.