Matt is a technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has been building tech to advance the security and prosperity of the United States since 1983. He is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of DCVC, the leading Deep Tech venture capital firm, with multiple billions of dollars across its family of funds focused on America’s resilience and economic and national security.
Matt’s current investments on behalf of the firm span from national resilience in energy, manufacturing, and agriculture, to computational drug discovery and synthetic biology, to geospatial and space access platforms, to robotics and applied AI, to defense and anti-terror systems, to quantum systems from quantum sensing to quantum computers, and to large-scale advanced compute and enterprise-focused platforms.
Many of Matt’s prior investments were in companies that either enjoyed large IPOs or were acquired to become core capabilities of companies like Illumina, Cisco, Google, IBM, Amazon/AWS, Broadcom/VMware, Salesforce, and Akamai. His venture investments prior to DCVC include Zoom (ZM), Fortinet (FTNT), D‑Wave Systems (QBTS), Uber (UBER), AngelList, Xensource (CTRX), and Facebook (FB). Matt founded and was VP of R&D of Da Vinci Systems, a pioneering email software vendor with over 1 million users world-wide prior to its acquisition.
Matt holds a degree in Physics from Yale University, and he is an inventor on over 50 granted or in-process patents in areas as diverse as computer systems virtualization, fraud detection, and AR. Matt has spent decades helping to ensure the engines of American innovation are available to national security missions and is known across the federal government for his proactive investment in capabilities needed for the missions of the future. He is an advisor to (and through his firm, frequent co-investor with) In-Q-Tel, a longtime member of and advisor to BENS (Business Executives for National Security), a founding sponsor of and advisor to the Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation, and a frequent pro-bono advisor to senior staff of America’s defense and national security-related agencies, interagency committees on select technology and policy matters, and Congressional committees.
He still writes code and builds robots for fun with his kids, but admits to liking Erlang better than Clojure, and Fischertechnik better than Lego Mindstorms.
