# Matt Theurer

> Matt Theurer is a Maryland-based engineer, serial founder, and the co-founder, president, and CEO of HyperSpectral. After beginning his career at the National Institutes of Health, building an early VMware-focused business, and helping scale Virtustream to its $1.2 billion acquisition by EMC, he returned to school for an MIT Executive MBA and began looking for the next consequential computing shift. HyperSpectral applies artificial intelligence to spectroscopy so organizations can identify substances and contaminants from their spectral signatures, with early work spanning food safety, industrial quality, and defense supply chains.

- **Role:** Co-Founder, President and CEO at HyperSpectral
- **Organizations:** HyperSpectral, Virtustream, Brigh Technologies, Seemless, Beep, National Institutes of Health, Dell Technologies, EMC
- **Education:** Executive MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management, B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Maryland
- **Known for:** Co-founded Virtustream and helped scale it to a $1.2 billion cash acquisition by EMC in 2015., As a student engineer at NIH, helped optimize a chilled-water system in work he says reduced the campus summer power bill by roughly $1 million per month., Earned VMware Certified Design Expert credential number 18 in 2009.

## Career timeline

- **1989-2010** — Worked with the National Institutes of Health in employee, project, and client roles, beginning as an engineering student.
- **2001** — Founded Brigh Technologies, an early VMware-focused technology services business.
- **2009** — Co-founded enterprise cloud company Virtustream.
- **2015** — Virtustream was acquired by EMC for $1.2 billion in cash.
- **2017** — Served as a Virtustream senior vice president of product management as the business operated within Dell Technologies.
- **2017-2019** — Completed the Executive MBA program at MIT Sloan.
- **2019** — Was reported as co-founder and CTO of Seemless.
- **2021-2022** — Served as executive vice president of service delivery at autonomous mobility company Beep.
- **2022** — Became CEO and co-founder of HyperSpectral after initially serving as CTO.
- **2024** — HyperSpectral emerged from stealth, raised an $8.5 million Series A, and entered a DARPA cooperative agreement related to critical-mineral supply chains.
- **2025** — HyperSpectral's SpecAI platform won the SPIE Prism Award for software; Theurer and Lauren Stack were named to Washingtonian's DC Tech Titans list.
- **2025** — HyperSpectral raised a $7 million Series A-2 extension, bringing total funding to about $15.5 million.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Virtustream and helped scale it to a $1.2 billion cash acquisition by EMC in 2015.
- As a student engineer at NIH, helped optimize a chilled-water system in work he says reduced the campus summer power bill by roughly $1 million per month.
- Earned VMware Certified Design Expert credential number 18 in 2009.
- Co-founded HyperSpectral and led it through approximately $15.5 million in total funding by October 2025.
- Named with co-founder Lauren Stack to Washingtonian's 2025 DC Tech Titans list.
- Named as an inventor on patents covering data-center optimization and spectral methods for identifying foodborne pathogens, pathogens, and particles of interest.
- Led HyperSpectral as its SpecAI platform won the 2025 SPIE Prism Award in the software category.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — A U.S. patent for multi-model spectral analysis listing Theurer as an inventor was issued.
- **2026-02** — A U.S. patent for detecting pathogens using spectrometer scans listing Theurer as an inventor was issued.
- **2026-01** — HyperSpectral announced a 2025 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leadership recognition for AI-powered spectral intelligence.
- **2025-10** — HyperSpectral closed a $7 million Series A-2 extension, bringing total funding to about $15.5 million.
- **2025-09** — Washingtonian named Theurer and co-founder Lauren Stack among DC's 2025 Tech Titans.
- **2025-04** — A U.S. patent for detecting foodborne pathogens using spectral analysis listing Theurer as an inventor was issued.
- **2025-01** — HyperSpectral's SpecAI platform won the 2025 SPIE Prism Award for software.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hyperspectral.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matttheurer
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/MattTheurer

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