Founder & CEO, Factory

Matan Grinberg

Physicist turned AI entrepreneur; founded Factory, an AI research lab focused on autonomy in software engineering, raising over $220M at a $1.5B valuation from Sequoia, Khosla, NEA, and others.

Known For

Founder of Factory AIAI for software engineering

Canon

Automation Creates Expert Human Work, Not Fewer Jobs

Curious

Distillation Attacks: Why Open-Source Models Create Asymmetric Advantage

Novel

Episodes

#20VC: Who Wins the Model War: OpenAI, Anthropic or Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning | Labour Displacement Fears are BS & Overblown | From Physicist to Sequoia Founder with Matan Grinberg, Founder @ FactoryJun 13, 2026