• VXB

  Led · Seed · Jul 2026

  VXB offers a software platform that integrates physics, material composition, cost, and manufacturability to accelerate design and validation of complex aerospace components. The company reports its software is already in production use, delivering immediate value to customers across the aerospace industry. A major aerospace manufacturer has adopted VXB-designed component placements as standard practice and is proposing the platform for a deep-space program. A satellite hardware startup founded by SpaceX alumni became a paying customer after the platform solved longstanding design challenges. VXB plans to expand its engineering team, grow its defense and commercial customer base, and extend the platform to additional classes of complex components using the new funding.

• Vatn Systems

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

  Founded in 2023 in Rhode Island by maritime practitioners and defense engineers, Vatn Systems is building scalable fleets of autonomous underwater vehicles for the U.S. military, allied governments, and civilian customers. Its flagship platforms, the Skelmir S6 and Skelmir S12, combine a plug-and-play payload architecture with INStinct, the company’s proprietary inertial navigation system that provides GPS-denied guidance at a fraction of traditional costs. The vehicles support distributed sensing, ISR, mine countermeasures, electronic warfare, and other emerging undersea missions, and can be re-configured for offshore energy, port security, and environmental monitoring in days rather than months. Throughout 2025 the company delivered AUVs to U.S. government customers, ran successful open-water demonstrations, and ramped production capacity to meet growing demand. Vatn positions itself as a future “underwater defense prime” by offering attritable, mass-deployable systems that align with shifting naval doctrines. Commercially, the same low-cost autonomy unlocks persistent coastal infrastructure monitoring and scientific research opportunities. The recent capital infusion is intended to accelerate production scaling and broaden mission profiles for both defense and civilian markets.

• Lila Sciences

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

  Lila Sciences develops an AI-driven platform that trains models on scientific literature across material sciences, chemistry and life sciences and generates experimental hypotheses. The company pairs those model outputs with laboratory setups to experimentally validate and close the loop between prediction and reproducible results. Reporting says Lila aims for a domain‑crossing, general-purpose science enablement stack rather than narrowly focused tools. Financially, it has completed a reported $200 million seed, emerged from stealth last year, and closed a $350 million Series A in October that lifted its valuation above $1.3 billion. Current reporting describes Lila negotiating an approximately $2 billion financing to scale compute, inference and laboratory capacity and to accelerate partner programs. The firm's growth narrative emphasizes standardizing experiment and feedback loops to make discovery repeatable and scalable.

• Vector

  Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

  Vector, headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah, designs and produces low-cost, attritable small unmanned aerial systems tailored to modern combat needs. Its flagship product, the Vector Hammer, combines deep-sensing reconnaissance with strike capability, featuring a gimbaled camera, 20-kilometer detection range, and fiber-optic integration for anti-jamming resilience. Founded by former special operations personnel and defense technologists, the company emphasizes operator-driven design and rapid, domestic manufacturing to ensure secure supply chains. Vector’s Utah facility is geared for industrial-scale output, enabling tens of thousands of units to be fielded quickly. Beyond hardware, the firm offers CUAS-as-a-service and sensor-integration services, keeping deployed systems adaptable to evolving threats. With fresh capital and prior venture backing, Vector is scaling inventory and production capacity to meet growing demand from U.S. defense and law-enforcement agencies.

• Spektion

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

  Spektion emerged from stealth and announced general availability of a purpose-built vulnerability management solution that leverages runtime data and software behavior analytics. The product provides complete software visibility, contextual risk assessment based on enterprise configurations, continuous runtime monitoring beyond CVE databases, intelligent prioritization combining runtime context with CVE data, and integrations with leading threat detection and response solutions. The company highlights lightweight deployment and the ability to measure software security risks, continuously monitor for undisclosed exploitable risks, and implement mitigations when immediate remediation is not possible. Spektion was built by practitioners with deep offensive-security and enterprise security experience, including CEO Joe Silva, CTO Josh Skorich, and R&D Head Julien Maladrie. The company says it has signed blue-chip customers less than a year since its founding, is debuting a white paper, and will present at RSA Conference 2025. Its go-to-market strategy and technology development are backed by a $5 million seed round led by LiveOak Ventures.

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