Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Matthew Kraning
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Matt is a General Partner at Menlo Venutres, focusing on AI, national defense, and robotics.
Before joining Menlo, he co-founded and served as CTO of Expanse, a category-creating data and cybersecurity company that Palo Alto Networks acquired for $1.25 billion. At Palo Alto Networks, he oversaw generative AI development across the entire company
and was CTO of a product group generating over $1 billion in annual revenue.
His earlier career included work at DARPA (the Pentagon’s “mad science” division), where he deployed to Afghanistan as Lead Data Scientist.
Matt holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Electrical Engineering, plus a Bachelor’s in Physics from Stanford University.
