Matt Byington
Investment Team
Matt is an investor on the Global Resilience team working closely with Paul Kwan.
Since joining in late ’23, Matt has expanded the depth and breadth of our work in defense and intelligence. Matt’s operational insights and understanding of the DoD have differentiated our investing effort and he will continue to work on defense and intelligence as well as industrial tech.
Prior to General Catalyst, Matt was part of the Naval Special Warfare Tactical Development Squadron, where he was a Lt. Commander leading a multi-disciplinary 20-person team evaluating and adopting emerging technology for special operations. He also served as the second-in-command at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Tactical Dev. Squadron.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from Harvard Business School.