Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Riven Systems was founded to rethink industrial chemistry design using density functional theory (DFT), AI, and autonomous experimentation to design highly selective ligands for separations in critical minerals processing. The team includes co-founders Orion Archer Cohen and Kurt (Chip) Breitenkamp and has built an autonomous lab in New York City. Riven says it is hiring across computational, experimental, and engineering sciences to grow its founding team. Financially, the company announced a $7.9 million financing led by Cerberus Ventures, participation from several VC firms, and a DOE Genesis Mission grant. New System Ventures incubated the company and acted as an early backer through its partners. Riven positions itself to address bottlenecks in critical minerals supply chains by accelerating development and deployment of chemistry solutions.

Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Worldscape builds an AI-native Decision Advantage Platform that combines agentic AI, simulation, digital engineering, and distributed data to enable modeling, evaluation, and optimization of complex missions. The platform supports secure operations across IL2–IL7, including SAP and fully air-gapped environments, and offers a modular licensing model with platform editions, capability packs, AI assistants, and advanced analytics. The company has rapidly scaled its engineering organization from roughly 10 engineers to nearly 70 over the past year. Worldscape said it supports multiple initiatives from the Department of War and the Department of Energy while expanding platform use cases. Planned product investments include autonomous AI agents, large-scale simulation, and a platform-native marketplace for applications, models, datasets, and intelligent agents. The company is based in Redmond, WA.

Led · Seed · Jul 2026

INTALUS develops processes to integrate ceramics into metals, addressing gaps that conventional coatings leave. The company’s metal-ceramic infusion approach is described as relevant across the national security sector and additional markets. Coverage notes INTALUS is scaling rapidly following the announced financing. The team and investor partnership, including Gene Skiba, Origin Ventures and Scout Ventures, are highlighted as supporters of the company’s growth. The articles do not provide revenue, user metrics, founding year, or location information.

Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Reaxiomatic was founded by Skyler Shuford, who previously co‑founded Hermeus. The company positions itself to refresh critical defense platforms. It has just completed a $7.25 million pre‑seed raise co‑led by Scout Ventures with a group of participating investors. Reaxiomatic is immediately hiring a small team of engineers and operators in San Diego to begin work. Public reporting does not disclose revenues, users, or other operating metrics at this time.

Participated · Series A · May 2026

Havoc develops an all-domain collaborative autonomy stack and a software-defined hardware approach that enables heterogeneous autonomous assets to sense, decide, and act together across sea, air, and land. The company reports more than 25,000 hours of autonomous testing and deployments and has collected over 200 billion data points from operations to iterate its field-tested autonomy stack. Havoc has built and deployed 100+ autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) globally, with 40+ mission-ready today and 30+ vessels delivered to the U.S. Department of Defense. It has made strategic acquisitions (Mavrik and Teleo) to expand into air and land domains and maintains partnerships with defense primes such as Leidos, Lockheed Martin, and SAIC as well as shipbuilders and additive manufacturers. Havoc has grown to over 200 employees, opened new offices in Austin and San Diego, and expanded maritime production in Rhode Island. The company highlights award recognition, SBIR awards, and selection to industry challenges as validation while positioning itself to scale deployments and production to meet defense and commercial demand.