Matt Hershenson

Venture Partner, Playground Global
Matt Hershenson, co‑founder of Danger and former Director of Hardware for Android, leads deep‑tech semiconductor investments and directly helps portfolio companies solve hardware challenges in manufacturing and systems integration.
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About Matt Hershenson

Matt Hershenson co-founded Danger and helped create the T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone, then served as Director of Hardware for Google's Android team where he built the hardware organization from chip design to regulatory compliance across more than 10 generations of devices. At Playground Global, he works directly with portfolio companies on complex hardware engineering challenges and leads deep-tech semiconductor investments, bringing hands-on technical expertise from manufacturing and systems integration that most venture investors lack.

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Playground Global is a venture capital fund founded and led by deeply technical company builders who concentrate on backing companies "between the improbable and the impossible"—hard-science, frontier-tech startups where most investors perceive the ideas as nearly impossible but Playground believes the physics and engineering are tractable. The firm employs top-tier domain scientists and uses them to write proprietary technology roadmaps across quantum computing, particle physics, engineered biology, and advanced robotics, positioning themselves as hands-on technical collaborators for founders building civilization-scale infrastructure.

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