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Ilya Sukhar

Ilya Sukhar

Founder of Parse and general partner at Matrix Partners

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ilya@matrix.vc
CEO of
Parse (company)
Parse (company)
Founder of
Parse (company)
Parse (company)
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Birthplace
Moscow
Moscow
Nationality
Russia
Russia
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
Educated at
The Harker School
The Harker School
Cornell University
Cornell University
Awards Received
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2014 Forbes 30 Under 30
Occupation
Investor
Investor
Invested in
Parabola (software)
Parabola (software)
Clearbit
Clearbit
SkyGiraffe
SkyGiraffe
Sentry (software company)
Sentry (software company)
Honeycomb (software company)
Honeycomb (software company)
Scale AI
Scale AI
HoneyComb (company)
HoneyComb (company)
Fivetran
Fivetran
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Blog
medium.com/@ilyasukhar
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pitchbook.com/profiles...106358-14

Ilya Sukhar is a founder of Parse, a part-time partner at Y Combinator and a general partner at Matrix Partners. He has been an angel investor, led platform development projects at Facebook, and has worked to help other startups as a partner at Matrix Partners.

Education

Ilya Sukhar attended Cornell University from 2003 to 2007 to pursue a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Operations Research and Information Engineering. While there, Ilya Sukhar worked as a teaching assistant for an object-oriented programming and data structures class on the sophomore level and for a foundations of artificial intelligence class on the senior level. He also participated in distributed systems research with Gun Sirer.

From 2007 to 2008, Ilya Sukhar pursed his masters of engineering degree in computer science at Cornell University.

Ooyala

From 2008 to 2010, Ilya Sukhar worked as a senior software engineer at Ooyala, an online video platform. While there, Ilya Sukhar was responsible for building large parts of the product and was active in recruiting and business development.

Etacts

In 2010, Ilya Sukhar was the first employee at Etacts, an automated and intelligent CRM. While there he worked as part of the engineering and product development team. Etacts was acquired by Salesforce in December 2010 and Ilya Sukhar continued on there for a little longer.

Parse

In 2011, Ilya Sukhar co-founded and acted as Chief Executive Officer for Parse. Parse was a cloud service for mobile developers. They were acquired by Facebook in April 2013, where Parse operated as a semi independent subsidiary. Ilya Sukhar continued working until 2016, at which point Facebook chose to exit the hosting business.

Parse has continued to be used as an open source project with support at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Y Combinator

From 2014 to 2016, Ilya Sukhar worked as a part-time partner for Y Combinator where he invested in and helped early stage startups.

Matrix Partners

As of 2016, Ilya Sukhar began to serve as a General Partner at Matrix Partners. As part of Matrix Partners, he invests in seed and Series A startups. As a part of Matrix Partners, he has participated in investments in Parabola, Fivetran, FeaturePeek, Guilded, Flock Safety, Slab, Open Listings, Guilded, Height, and Mashgin. He has held board and advisor roles at Parabola, Guilded, Open Listings, and Fivetran.

Angel Investor

Ilya Sukhar has acted as an angel investor since 2014. His personal investments have included Parabola, Scale AI, Mux, SkyGiraffe, Sentry, Reflect, Honeycomb, Triplebyte, Bluecrew, Transifex, Airtable, Shape Analytics, and Yhat.

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Listen to the Caveat Founder Episode - Ep. #1, Feat. Ilya Sukhar & Fred Stevens-Smith on iHeartRadio | iHeartRadio

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-caveat-founder-31093419/episode/ep-1-feat-ilya-sukhar-40511967/

Web

September 25, 2015

Parse cofounder and Y Combinator partner Ilya Sukhar joins Matrix Partners

Ken Yeung

https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/09/parse-cofounder-and-y-combinator-partner-ilya-sukhar-joins-matrix-partners/

Web

August 9, 2016

Parse's Ilya Sukhar On Founding A Startup With Strangers | Founder Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1_rNmn4DFM

Web

May 23, 2013

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