Haomiao Huang built his career as an engineer and repeat founder, going through Y Combinator twice and spending more than seven years as CTO of the smart-home company Kuna, all after studying electrical engineering at Caltech and earning a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford instead of joining SpaceX early on. That firsthand experience with how hard it was to get support for hardware startups led him to co-lead deals like Dexterity and Lumafield at Kleiner Perkins, help connect chip startups with TSMC, and eventually co-found Matter with Wen Hsieh to focus on backing hard-tech founders.
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Matter started as a nonprofit public media accelerator before becoming a for-profit fund, and it builds its program around design thinking, having startups and large media organizations like AP and KQED go through the same bootcamp and design reviews together. It backs media founders without giving corporate partners decision rights, supports medium-risk businesses instead of only chasing unicorns, and has run its cohorts, demo days, and investments with a very small full-time team.
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