Matthew Sweeney co-founded Uber's Self-Driving Vehicles Group and worked as a member of technical staff at Neuralink before becoming an investor at Thursday Ventures, where he backs companies in robotics, autonomy, and brain-computer interfaces. His investments in companies like 1X Technologies, Formant, Polymath Robotics, Skyways, and Science Corporation closely track the hands-on engineering work he did in self-driving cars and neurotechnology.