Matt Kraning

Matt is a General Partner at Menlo Venutres, focusing on AI, enterprise SaaS, and national defense, areas where he has both built and sold. 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.