About
Prof. Yossi Matias is VP Engineering & Research at Google and the founding Managing Director of Google Center in Israel, which grew to over 1600 on staff. He serves as the global lead of Googles Health AI, the global lead of Googles Crisis Response initiative (providing AI-based actionable information), serves on Googles Sustainability board, and as a founding lead of Googles AI for Social Good initiative. For over a decade, he was on the leadership team of Googles Search, building and leading efforts including Google Trends, Google Autocomplete, Search vertical experiences, and Search Console.
Yossi Matias is leading Matias Ventures, a fund that invest in early stage startups.
He is on the board of IATI, and Chair of its Multi-National Companies Forum. He is the founding exec lead of Google for Startup Campus Tel Aviv, of Mind the Gap, and of the global Google for Startups Accelerator.
In addition, he is on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs and visiting professor at Stanford. He published over 100 papers and is the inventor of over 60 patents. He is a recipient of the 2005 Godel Prize, an 2009 ACM Fellow, and a recipient of the 2019 ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on the foundations of streaming algorithms and their application to large-scale data analytics.
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- What is Yossi Matias's primary role and background?
- Yossi Matias is VP Engineering & Research at Google and the founding Managing Director of Google Center in Israel. He also leads Matias Ventures, a fund that invests in early-stage startups.
- What are some of Yossi Matias's recent investments?
- Yossi Matias recently invested in enso, a catalog of fully autonomous AI-powered bots for SMBs, which raised a $6M Seed round in July 2024. Another recent investment is Leo AI, a generative AI engineering design platform, which secured a $12.7M Seed round in December 2023.
- Which sectors does Yossi Matias primarily focus on for investments?
- Yossi Matias shows a concentration in Industrial Technologies, Business Software, and Health Tech & Life Sciences, with two portfolio companies in each of these sectors.
- Can you name some notable portfolio companies of Yossi Matias?
- Notable portfolio companies include Eleos Health, an automated behavioral care workflow solution that raised a $128M Series C, and Anyword (formerly Keywee), a marketing language optimization platform that raised a $30.1M Series B.
- What stages of investment does Yossi Matias typically participate in?
- Yossi Matias participates across various stages, including Pre-Seed, Seed, A Round, B Round, C Round, D Round, and E Round. The data shows a notable number of Seed stage investments.
- What is the typical investment range for Yossi Matias?
- Yossi Matias's investment range is between $750K and $24M.
- Has Yossi Matias made any investments in quantum computing?
- Yes, Yossi Matias invested in Q-Factor, a full-stack quantum computing company using neutral atoms, which raised a $24M Seed round in April 2026.
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