Defense Tech BasePublished focus is not a current investment mandate or verified portfolio exposure. Only recorded stages are used; absent check sizes and fund terms are not inferred.
Published investor focus
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DCVC
San Francisco, CA, United States
DCVC is a deep-technology venture capital firm backing companies based on engineering and scientific breakthroughs. Its portfolio and investment themes include space, robotics, autonomy, and national-security applications.
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Founders Fund
San Francisco, CA, United States
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing across stages and sectors. Its portfolio includes aerospace, defense, space infrastructure, and autonomy companies.
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Lux Capital
New York, NY, United States
Lux Capital is a technology venture firm investing in companies built around scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Its portfolio and investment activity include defense, space, robotics, AI, cybersecurity and other dual-use frontier technologies.
Lux’s May 21, 2026 quarterly report discusses defense and industrial investment and names companies including Cambridge Aerospace, EnduroSat and Kela. This provides evidence of interest across allied defense and space markets. The report is not a current eligibility policy or a statement of check size for a new company. Offering context reviewed October 2, 2026.
Research the partner and portfolio relevant to your specific technology, then confirm investment stage, jurisdiction, current fund and lead/follow preference. Explain the technical milestone and business model rather than relying on the broad defense label. Ask about competitive overlap and the evidence required to move from an introduction to diligence.
Questions to resolve
- Which published thesis and portfolio examples fit your technology?
- Does the current fund fit your stage, jurisdiction and round?
Continue your research
- Autonomous systems: companies, products and buyer research
- Department of Defense: technology contract and supplier research
- Department of the Air Force: technology contract and supplier research
- Department of the Army: technology contract and supplier research
- Department of Energy: technology contract and supplier research
- Department of Health and Human Services: technology contract and supplier research
- National Institutes of Health: technology contract and supplier research
- Department of Justice: technology contract and supplier research
- Drug Enforcement Administration: technology contract and supplier research
- General Services Administration: technology contract and supplier research
- Federal Acquisition Service: technology contract and supplier research
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration: technology contract and supplier research