Participated · Series B · Aug 2026

Heaviside Industries develops multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for air, land and sea platforms. Founded in 2024, the company operated in stealth for more than two years before emerging with its Series A. Heaviside has a team of over 50 engineers and operators and maintains offices in Los Angeles and Oslo. It has a roster of U.S. and allied customers and is led by CEO Phillip Walker. The company plans initial deployments of aerial and underwater munitions platforms. Financially, Heaviside announced a $28M Series A led by Interlagos to accelerate development, production and delivery of its systems.

Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Soctera develops semiconductor-level power amplifiers intended to extend range, improve signal fidelity, and reduce thermal failure in defense, space, and commercial communications systems. The company says it co-optimizes the semiconductor stack electrically and thermally to reduce gallium nitride (GaN) content by 20X and to halve thermal resistance in each device. Soctera spun out of Cornell University's Jena-Xing research group and is based in Ithaca, N.Y. Financially, the company has secured over $4.2 million in non-dilutive government and CHIPS Act grants and completed a $4 million seed equity raise in August 2026. The seed funds are earmarked to scale the team and manufacturing and to turn the materials-level advantages into qualified power amplifiers for customers. Leadership highlights demand from next-generation radar and satellite builders as a market driver for the company’s near-term commercialization efforts.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Intellectible offers AI-powered proposal writing software that supports advanced AI workflows to complete complex proposal actions. The company is based in Austin, Texas. In June 2026 it raised $3 million in a Seed round backed by Anorak Ventures, Capital Factory, Circadian Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Techstars. The articles emphasize the platform's capabilities around advanced proposal workflows but do not disclose revenue, user metrics, or other operating KPIs. No specific future product plans or detailed use of funds were reported. The funding was noted as another sign of growth in Austin's artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Arinna is developing ultrathin photovoltaic cells specifically for spacecraft based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a class of atomically thin semiconductors. The founders, CEO Koosha Nazif and CTO Alex Shearer, met while pursuing doctoral research at Stanford, where Nazif focused on the materials and Shearer on scalable production techniques. The company says its cells are extremely flexible, do not require protective coverings, can be delivered within weeks, and will last about 15 years on orbit. Arinna claims its photovoltaics are roughly 32% more efficient than incumbent solutions and are cheaper and more durable than legacy space solar panels. Near-term plans include sending qualification panels to customers for orbital testing before year-end and proving larger-scale production over the next year. Longer-term plans call for a megawatt-scale mass-production facility targeted for 2028, supported by the $4M seed financing.

Led · Seed · Sep 2025

Verustruct develops robotic systems and a software suite to automate housebuilding, centered on a patented translational slip form (TSF) technology that can extrude load-bearing walls onsite while integrating electrical, plumbing, and insulation. The company applies machine learning and real-time inspection software to accelerate construction workflows and produce higher-quality builds. It targets lower-cost materials such as basalt and limestone to reduce per-square-meter building costs. Verustruct was founded by Nicholas Callegari, then an MBA student at the Yale School of Management, and received strategic support from that school during its early development. The company converted to a Public Benefit Corporation to embed social objectives alongside venture growth. Verustruct has publicly disclosed an oversubscribed $2.4 million pre-seed raise to advance its technology and operations.