Her parents run a software business, Decision Technologies International[2][7] and her sister, Tiana Idoni-Matthews, became a marketing director of Uncharted Play.
[8] Matthews attended Our Lady of Lourdes High School,[9] as a teenager pursuing science fairs and track and field.
[2] As a junior in college in 2008,[10] Matthews and classmate Julia Silverman invented Soccket as part of an assignment for an engineering class.
[12] When the electricity was lost and diesel generators were used to keep the lights on, Matthews recognized the health hazard posed from fumes and decided to try to do something about it.
[6] The following year, she left that company to work on Uncharted Power full-time,[3] initially raising funds through Kickstarter and then utilizing convertible debt.
[6] The initial manufacturing run of Soccket encountered significant quality control issues, so Matthews moved production to Uncharted Play's own facilities in New York.
[2] This shift included trademarking MORE, an acronym for Motion-based Off-Grid Renewable Energy, a system which uses Soccket's energy-storing method in consumer products beyond toys.
[8][16] "Matthews describes her company's proprietary MORE technology as an energy harvesting and emanating building block that can be seamlessly integrated into various infrastructures, objects and products — everything from floor panels, streets, speedbumps and sidewalks, to subway turnstiles, strollers, shopping carts and beyond.