Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

Founded in 2024, Grid Aero designs and manufactures uncrewed, ultra-simple airframes paired with advanced autonomous systems, enabling thousands of pounds of cargo to be flown thousands of miles from austere or degraded locations. The company’s flagship platform, the Lifter Lite, targets defense ‘contested logistics’ missions but is also attracting commercial and humanitarian interest through partnerships with Everts Air and Aviation Without Borders. By offering scalable, persistent logistics and sensing capabilities at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems, Grid Aero aims to build a smarter, distributed global logistics network. The newly raised capital will transition Lifter Lite from prototype testing to operational deployments and major exercises. Grid Aero emphasizes speed of execution, having built and flown its aircraft in less than 18 months. While specific revenue or user metrics were not disclosed, the company highlights growing demand across defense, remote, and humanitarian sectors. The Series A funding underscores investor confidence in Grid Aero’s ability to rapidly field autonomous airlift solutions.

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.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

Redactable is a web-based platform built to redact confidential documents from any browser. It leverages natural language processing and machine learning to auto-detect sensitive information and deliver secure redaction, document scrubbing, and AI-driven workflows. Led by founder and CEO Amanda Levay, the company launched its platform in July 2022. Redactable plans to use new funding to advance market reach, visibility, and operations. The company previously raised $1.3M in a pre-seed round that helped launch the product. The most recent financing is a $5.5M Seed round. Redactable offers a web-based, AI-driven redaction platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to auto-detect and permanently redact sensitive information. The product is delivered as a SaaS application with no software download or plugins required, and it supports team collaboration on large redaction projects. It also removes metadata and issues Redaction Certificates to track who redacted each document and when. The company emphasizes permanent (not masked) redactions to prevent recovery of hidden data. Redactable launched its platform with support from venture investors and publicly announced the product in New York on July 26, 2022. The company raised $900k in pre-seed funding to support the product launch and early operations.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2018

SCYTHE builds an agentless attack-emulation platform that enables offensive, defensive and hybrid “purple” teams to build and emulate real-world cyber threats in minutes. The platform helps customers validate their risk posture and the efficacy of security tools across people, process, and technology. SCYTHE says its technology accelerates deployment and adoption in enterprise and critical-infrastructure sectors. The company plans to use new funding to expand engineering, sales and marketing, and customer service for the enterprise and cybersecurity consulting markets. Management emphasizes the product’s role in defending against growing ransomware and advanced threats. SCYTHE is privately held and based in Arlington, VA, and lists Energy Impact Partners, Gula Tech Adventures, Paladin Capital, Evolution Equity, and private industry investors as backers. SCYTHE offers an attack simulation technology platform that enables organizations to build and emulate combinations of real-world adversarial campaigns to test vulnerabilities and measure the effectiveness of security controls. The platform uses a Threat Catalog, maps to the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix, and can automatically deploy a combination of threat actor communications and endpoint capabilities into production environments to produce granular reporting. Its flagship product allows red and blue teams to set up, customize, and run adversarial campaigns in minutes to validate risk posture and security team performance. Founder and CEO Bryson Bort leads the company and brings experience from elite R&D work, GRIMM, the ICS Village nonprofit, and a visiting fellowship at the National Security Institute. SCYTHE is privately held, based in Arlington, VA, and recently raised $3 million in an initial financing to accelerate product development and global delivery. The company says it is continually adding capabilities to combat ongoing cyber threats and to provide real metrics on security efficacy for businesses.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2018

StreetShares is a Reston, Va.-based mission-driven financial technology company that enables financial institutions to provide loans to small businesses. Led by Mark L. Rockefeller and Mickey Konson, the company launched digital small business lending technology for banks and credit unions in 2019. Since January 2020 its client count nearly doubled to 53 financial institutions, including community banks, Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). In November 2020 StreetShares secured $10M in funding. Backers included Motley Fool Ventures, Ally Ventures and individual fintech angel investors. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach. StreetShares is a Washington, DC-based specialty finance company serving the military and veteran market. It provides small business loans and lines of credit and offers alternative investment products such as Veteran Business Bonds, a veterans social-impact investing product. StreetShares also offers invoice factoring and accounts receivable financing for government contractors. The company is led by CEO Mark L. Rockefeller and COO Mickey Konson. In January 2018 it completed a $23m Series B equity funding round. Brian Burke of Cooley LLP acted as counsel to StreetShares on the transaction. StreetShares is an online lender providing access to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises, originally launched as a "veterans funding veterans" platform. The company launched its direct lending business in 2014 and was co-founded by Mark Rockefeller and Mickey Konson. StreetShares recently received SEC approval to use Regulation A+ (Title IV of the JOBS Act) to offer a crowdlending product that allows non‑accredited investors to fund loans. It will initially offer loans to U.S. military members, veterans and their families and intends to scale the social lending model to the broader investment market. The marketplace offers loans from $2,000 to $100,000 with terms of 3 to 36 months; loans are said to be funded in less than a week and borrowers must have reasonable credit and be in business at least one year. The company announced a Series A first tranche of $4.5 million and is still accepting new investors. StreetShares operates a P2P small business lending marketplace that connects primarily veteran-owned small businesses with qualified retail and institutional investors. Investors compete in an online auction to fund portions of requested loans, and StreetShares aggregates the lowest bids into a single loan. The platform focuses on funding veteran-owned small businesses and facilitates retail and institutional participation. The company was launched in 2014 by Mark L. Rockefeller and Mickey Konson. StreetShares recently secured more than $200 million in funding commitments to support lending on its marketplace. Eagle Bank opened a warehouse line to support the platform's loan originations. StreetShares is a Reston, VA-based online lending platform that enables individual investors to bid to lend shares of small business loans to mainstreet businesses. The platform facilitates investor bidding on loan shares and targets small businesses seeking funding under $100k. It has a particular focus on serving the veteran-owned business community. Leadership includes CEO Mark L. Rockefeller, COO Mickey Konson, and CTO Ben Shiflet. The company positions itself as socially oriented and community-focused through participation from community bankers and veteran investors. StreetShares recently closed a $1.2M seed funding round.