Paul Kwan
Paul Kwan is a Managing Director at General Catalyst, where he leads the firm's Global Resilience investment team focused on defense, industrial, and energy sectors. He is best known for backing category-defining defense and software companies including Anduril, Helsing, Samsara, and Saronic, and for co-founding Valinor, a next-generation defense tech holding company. Prior to joining General Catalyst, he spent 26 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as head of west coast technology banking, where he advised major technology companies including Spotify, Google, and Microsoft on IPOs and strategic transactions. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford University.
“Helsing — European defense AI company; GC portfolio company; cited as evidence of GC's thesis that regional defense primes will emerge across geographies as supply chains fragment”
“We are deeply invested in Helsing in seed. And that's a project that Jeanette and Daniel Ek and Paul Kwan have worked on.”
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