Paul Kwan

Managing Director, General Catalyst | Global Resilience - Defense, Industrial and Energy

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Feb 2025
Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.
Board Member
Jan 2025
The operating system for modern command. With Onebrief, leaders can enable a superhuman command: one that makes brilliant decisions, scales output, and is optimally efficient. Currently live on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. Learn more at onebrief.com
Co-Founder and Investor
Jul 2024
Valinor is a new type of defense and government tech company focused on solving the problems others don’t. Our unique model of centralized go-to-market and decentralized engineering allows us to move with unparalleled efficiency to identify unmet needs, build right-sized solutions, and get products where they matter most - in the hands of users.
Board Member
Mar 2024
Were building a new kind of robotics company. One without egos. Driven by empathy. With collaboration at its core. Our mission is to build a new robotic future. A future where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.
Investor
Nov 2023
PhysicsX is a physical AI company on a mission to accelerate innovation and overhaul what engineering and manufacturing look like today. We are building a new software stack to deliver deep AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. PhysicsX partners with leading organizations in aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London and New York. We are currently recruiting for multiple positions, however, please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals.
Board Member
Nov 2023
Nominal builds the essential software stack that enables hardware teams to test and iterate as rapidly as software teams. Nominal empowers engineers to continuously monitor, validate, and deploy innovations, transforming how mission-critical hardware is built and operated.
Investor
Aug 2023
Helsing was founded to provide Artificial Intelligence to protect our democracies. Helsing works with partners in governments and across industry. Together, we develop systems that leverage AI and autonomy to provide autonomous mass that is sovereign, scalable and affordable. We’re looking for people with their heart in the right place, who share our conviction that liberal democratic values are worth protecting, for ourselves and for future generations.
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Charm Industrial is working to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We design, build and operate a fleet of mobile fast pyrolyzers that convert ag and forest biomass residues into bio-oil for use in carbon removal and direct-reduced-iron steelmaking. In 2020 our Chief Scientist and co-founder Shaun Meehan had two breakthroughs (bio-oil intermediate and bio-oil sequestration) that kickstarted the company. Within 10 months we completed our first carbon removal injection and in 2021 we completed more than 5,000 tons of CO₂e removal for customers like Stripe, Shopify and Microsoft.
Investor
May 2023
Neko Health is a healthcare technology company co-founded in 2018 by Swedish engineer Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify founder Daniel Ek.
 ‍ Our vision is to provide healthcare that’s proactive instead of reactive – so that people can live longer, healthier lives. By combining proprietary technology and thoughtful design with best-in-class clinical care and research, Neko has pioneered an affordable preventive health scan unlike any other.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Corelight transforms network and cloud activity into evidence so that data-first defenders can stay ahead of ever-changing attacks. Delivered by our open NDR platform, Corelight’s comprehensive, correlated evidence gives you unparalleled visibility into your network. This evidence allows you to unlock new analytics, investigate faster, hunt like an expert, and even disrupt future attacks. Our on-prem and cloud sensors go anywhere to capture structured, industry-standard telemetry and insights that work with the tools and processes you already use. Corelight’s global customers include Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and research universities. Get started >> https://www.corelight.com/contact
Investor
Dec 2022
Were redefining how America competes. Our products are used today by friendly forces around the world to shape adversary behavior, expose malign influence, and detect illicit activity. We started in 2019 with a belief that the public servants who put themselves in harm’s way deserve better technology. The defense status quo wasn’t cutting it, so we built a team that obsesses over real-world mission impact. We iterate fast, deploy forward, and build with end users in mind. Since then, we’ve grown from $3M to $80M in revenue, stayed profitable, and scaled to 200+ people, while raising just $12M. We value ownership, transparency, and teamwork. We build like our work matters, because it does. And we’re building a company where the best operators in the country come together to win, grow, and do the best work of their careers. We’re expanding our edge across cyber, economic warfare, and next-gen sensing. If you want to help America win before and beyond the battlefield, we want you. Check out our open roles at https://vannevarlabs.com/careers/.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Anomali delivers the leading AI-Powered Security and IT Operations Platform. Only Anomali integrates ETL, SIEM, Next-Gen SIEM, XDR, UEBA, SOAR, and TIP into one powerful platform. At the center is the Anomali Copilot that navigates a proprietary cloud-native security and IT data lake to drive first-in-market speed, scale, and performance at a fraction of the cost. Modernize security and IT operations to protect and accelerate your organization with better analytics, visibility, productivity, and talent retention. Be Different. Be the Anomali. Learn more at www.anomali.com.
Investor
Apr 2022
Coming soon.
Board Member
Oct 2021
Awardcos employee recognition platform builds culture, incentivizes performance, and powers modern engagement strategies. With the largest reward network in the world and the most customizable and flexible employee recognition solution in the industry, Awardco is the leader in employee recognition and rewards.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.
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2025
Investor
Feb 2025
Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.
Board Member
Jan 2025
The operating system for modern command. With Onebrief, leaders can enable a superhuman command: one that makes brilliant decisions, scales output, and is optimally efficient. Currently live on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. Learn more at onebrief.com
2024
Co-Founder and Investor
Jul 2024
Valinor is a new type of defense and government tech company focused on solving the problems others don’t. Our unique model of centralized go-to-market and decentralized engineering allows us to move with unparalleled efficiency to identify unmet needs, build right-sized solutions, and get products where they matter most - in the hands of users.
Board Member
Mar 2024
Were building a new kind of robotics company. One without egos. Driven by empathy. With collaboration at its core. Our mission is to build a new robotic future. A future where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
PhysicsX is a physical AI company on a mission to accelerate innovation and overhaul what engineering and manufacturing look like today. We are building a new software stack to deliver deep AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. PhysicsX partners with leading organizations in aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London and New York. We are currently recruiting for multiple positions, however, please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals.
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