Matt Hanson

Matt is a principal at Blu Venture Investors and serves on the Innovations Investment Committee. He is also a co-founder of the startup accelerator Pax Momentum. He has served as a board director or board observer for several companies, including Kulabyte, a video over internet technology recently sold to Haivision; Urgently; and NS8. Matt was a co-founder of Segovia, a provider to DoD of broadband internet via satellite. He has also held senior sales positions with iDirect, an internet over satellite company, Marconi, and FORE Systems (IP, ATM and Optical Routing technology).

As an early-stage investor, Matt enjoys working with entrepreneurs and being part of their adventure and is passionate about helping the D.C. metropolitan area to develop as a hub for tech startups. He is most interested in telecommunications, data communications, cyber security, enterprise software, AI, ecommerce, autonomous, FinTech and automotive.