# Matthew Parkhurst

> Matthew Parkhurst is the New York-based co-founder and CEO of Antimetal, founded with CTO Shreyas Iyer in 2022. His career includes car sales and sales and operations leadership. Antimetal began in AWS cost optimization, gained attention through a 2024 pizza delivery campaign and expanded into AI infrastructure management, announcing a $20 million Series A in June 2025.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Antimetal
- **Organizations:** Antimetal, Brev.dev, Oxy, Insurmi, General Services Administration
- **Known for:** Co-founded Antimetal in 2022., Led Antimetal’s 2024 pizza launch campaign: about $15,000 in spending, roughly 75 recipient companies becoming customers, and more than $1 million in added annualized net revenue, as reported in June 2024., Antimetal announced a $4.3 million seed round in May 2023 and a $20 million Series A in June 2025.

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Left school to sell cars, gaining his first sales experience.
- **Before 2022** — Held sales and operations leadership at Oxy and a partnerships leadership role at Insurmi; exact dates were not verified.
- **2022** — Co-founded Antimetal with Shreyas Iyer; serves as CEO.
- **2023-05** — Antimetal announced a $4.3 million seed round led by Framework Ventures.
- **2024-02 to 2024-07** — Advised Brev.dev, which NVIDIA acquired in 2024.
- **2024-04** — Antimetal sent more than 1,000 pizzas to prospective customers, investors and technology personalities in New York and San Francisco.
- **2025-03** — Selected as a senior adviser at the General Services Administration. His disclosure recorded a CEO leave during government service and continued Antimetal board duties.
- **2025-06** — Antimetal announced a $20 million Series A led by Sound Ventures and an infrastructure automation beta.
- **2025-10** — Announced Antimetal’s new New York office and recalled sharing a living-room desk with Iyer.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Antimetal in 2022.
- Led Antimetal’s 2024 pizza launch campaign: about $15,000 in spending, roughly 75 recipient companies becoming customers, and more than $1 million in added annualized net revenue, as reported in June 2024.
- Antimetal announced a $4.3 million seed round in May 2023 and a $20 million Series A in June 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — On October 23, Antimetal published research by Luke Sprecher on using investigation evidence to group related production alerts while keeping separate failures visible.
- **2026-08** — Antimetal published engineering research describing compression techniques intended to fit 10 to 100 times more telemetry into agent context windows; this is company research rather than a personal achievement by Parkhurst.
- **2026-06** — Antimetal reported reducing its own production error-log volume by 76% in an internal trial, with human review of changes.
- **2026-06** — Antimetal described Anvil, its internal customer implementation tool, and reported about 80% less hands-on work for its most complicated onboardings.
- **2025-10** — Parkhurst announced a new Antimetal office in New York.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewparkhurst/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mprkhrst

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Last updated: 2026-10-26