Matt Panicali is a Director of Venture at Connecticut Innovations, focusing on venture debt and equity investments in technology companies. He joined the firm in 2014 and holds an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.








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Matt Panicali invests through Connecticut Innovations (CT Innovations), which writes checks of $250K to $1M at pre-seed, seed, series a.
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