U.S. Department Of Defense

ActiveVenture Capital

Updated: Dec 5, 2025 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Jun 1, 2025	Kestral	$500K Seed	—	468 Capital, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti
Feb 1, 2023	InfluxData	$51.0M Series E	—	Accomplice, Battery Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Cyberstarts VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Grasshopper Capital, Heavybit, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mango Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group, Bradley Horowitz, Shivon Zilis
Jun 1, 2022	Bardeen	$15.0M Series A	—	468 Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital, Andrew Wheeler, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Merak Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Munich Re / HSB Ventures, S28 Capital, Tiger Global Management, Trucks Venture Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti, David Lieb, Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Joi Ito, Marc Benioff
Jun 1, 2022	Warren Investimentos	$21.0M Series C	—	Accomplice, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Grasshopper Capital, Heavybit, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group
May 1, 2022	Teleport	$110.0M Series C	—	468 Capital, Altair Capital Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Associates, Immeasurable, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Ravelin Capital, Revolution, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, York IE, Augusto Marietti, Kyle York
Mar 1, 2022	Rapid	$150.0M Series D	—	Accomplice, Allegion Ventures, Altair Capital Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Grasshopper Capital, Grove Ventures, Heavybit, Journey Ventures, M12, R136 Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Softbank Group, SoftBank Investment Advisers, State of Mind Ventures, SV Angel, Trucks Venture Capital, Unusual Ventures, Jacques Benkoski, Vintage Investment Partners, Viola Ventures, Y Combinator, YL Ventures, Zeev Capital, Aaron Rosenson, Frederic Kerrest, George Kurtz, Guy Resheff, Ran Makavy
Feb 1, 2022	RudderStack	$56.0M Series B	—	468 Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, at.inc/, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bond, EQT Ventures, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Mango Capital, Matias Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti, Dylan Field, Jeremy Stoppelman, Stewart Butterfield
Feb 1, 2022	Wallaroo	$25.0M Series A	—	Accomplice, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Grasshopper Capital, Heavybit, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group
Jan 1, 2022	Blockdaemon	$210.0M Series C	—	305 Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, B Capital Group, Boldstart Ventures, Bora&Sons, Dreamers VC, Founders Fund, Gaingels, GitHub Fund, Goat Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hitachi Ventures, Laurence Jones, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group, Streamlined Ventures, SV Angel, Tenaya Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Uncork Capital, UpHonest Capital, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Workday Ventures, Y Combinator, Adam Gross, Edith Harbaugh, Guy Podjarny, Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, Richard Branson, Ron Suber, Sam Altman, Stanley Tang
Oct 1, 2021	Rocket Academy	$1.0M Seed	—	305 Ventures, 500 Global, Dreamers VC, Goat Capital, Golden Gate Ventures, Pieter Kemps, Shailendra Singh, Y Combinator, Ron Suber
Oct 1, 2021	Genopets	$8.0M Seed	—	305 Ventures, CrunchFund, Dreamers VC, Goat Capital, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Hyperplane, Pantera Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, David Chang, Do Kwon, Ed Baker, Manish Chandra, Mona El Isa, Ron Suber, Stani Kulechov, Stanley Tang, Steve Chen
Aug 1, 2021	LaunchDarkly	$200.0M Series D	—	01 Advisors, 75 & Sunny, Accel, Accomplice, Acrew Capital, AIX Ventures, AllerFund, Altimeter Capital, Amity Ventures, Atreides Management, B Capital Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Boldstart Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Boosted Commerce, Bryant Stibel, C2 Investment, Cervin Ventures, Chemistry VC, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Daffy, Electric Ant, Fifth Wall, First Round Capital, Geek Ventures, Grasshopper Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Heavybit, Immeasurable, Insight Partners, LaunchPad, Lead Edge Capital, NewView Capital, Operator Collective, O'Shaughnessy Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Positive Sum VC, Quiet Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Shine Capital, Softbank Group, Susa Ventures, ThirdLove, Threshold Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Torch Capital, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, Wing Venture Capital, David Dubick, Elie Seidman, Jason Lemkin, Jeffrey Wilke, Jeremy Zimmer, Josh Yguado, Karl Peterson, Michael Ryan Dubin, Michael Stoppelman, Sahin Boydas, Sean Rad
Aug 1, 2021	Teleport	$30.0M Series B	—	468 Capital, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti
Jun 1, 2021	Nabis	$31.0M Series B	—	Anthemis Group, Crosslink Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, TMV, Jett McCandless, Stanton Green, Ted Serbinski
Mar 1, 2021	OpenSea	$23.0M Series A	—	01 Advisors, 305 Ventures, 75 & Sunny, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Archetype, Awesome People Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Bond, BoxGroup, Climate Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Color Capital, Craft Ventures, Davidovs VC, Divergence Ventures, Divergent Capital, Double Down, Dreamers VC, DST Global, Electric Capital, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Goat Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hack VC, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Listen, Menlo Ventures, Montauk Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Operator Collective, Otherwise Fund, Pace Capital, Partners Resolute, Scalar Capital, SciFi VC, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Shrug Capital, SignalFire, Sinai Ventures, Marco DeMeireles, Web Smith, Techstars, The Hit Forge, Thirty Five Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Tola Capital, Torch Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures, Vine Ventures LP, Work-Bench, Y Combinator, Zigg Capital, Adam Gross, Alex Pack, Alex Pattis, Andrew Gluck, Angela Santurbano, Anthony Pompliano, Balaji Srinivasan, Casey Neistat, Christian Oestlien, Gokul Rajaram, Jaime Schmidt, Jen Rubio Butterfield, Julia Hartz, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Weil, Ligaya Tichy, Logan Paul, Mark Chou, Mark Cuban, Mark Wahlberg, Moshe Lifschitz, Nkechi Iregbulem, Peter Hunn, Ron Suber, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Shane Neman, Stanley Tang, Tim Kendall, Tony Sheng, Zach Segal
Nov 1, 2020	Eclipse Foods	$12.0M Series A	—	305 Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Dreamers VC, Goat Capital, Golden Ventures, ICON, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Y Combinator, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Ron Suber, Sebastien Borget, Stanley Tang, Tobias Lutke
Sep 1, 2020	Skynet Labs	$3.0M Seed	—	468 Capital, First Star Ventures, Indicator Ventures, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti
Jun 1, 2020	Streamlit	$21.0M Series A	—	468 Capital, Abstract Ventures, AllegisCyber Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, #ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS), Ballistic Ventures, Banana Capital, B Capital Group, BoxGroup, C2 Investment, Cambrian Ventures, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Electric Capital, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton Investments, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Green Bay Ventures, Karim Faris, Heartcore Capital, HV Capital, Incisive Ventures, Insight Partners, Inspired Capital, Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Moving Capital, Notable Capital, Pioneer Fund, Polychain Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Republic Records, Ribbit Capital, Roosh Ventures, S28 Capital, Seven Seven Six, Spark Capital, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Y Combinator, YLEM, Aaron Harris, Alexandre Scialom, Ben Lang, Demetrios Christofidis Jr, Elad Gil, Jeffrey Wilke, Josh Mohrer, Justin Mateen, Kristian Segerstrale, Mike Fernandez, Nick Jonas, Rashaun Williams, Steve Aoki, Steve Chen, Vinay Hiremath, William Hockey
Nov 1, 2019	Teleport	$25.0M Series A	—	468 Capital, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti
Jul 1, 2019	Skynet Labs	$4.0M Seed	—	468 Capital, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, S28 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Augusto Marietti
May 1, 2019	Heart Aerospace	$2.0M Seed	—	305 Ventures, Dreamers VC, Goat Capital, Y Combinator, Ron Suber, Stanley Tang
Apr 1, 2019	Eclipse Foods	$4.0M Seed	—	305 Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Dimension Capital, Dreamers VC, Footwork, Goat Capital, Golden Ventures, ICON, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Spark Capital, Trajectory Ventures, Y Combinator, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Ron Suber, Sebastien Borget, Stanley Tang, Tobias Lutke
Feb 1, 2019	InfluxData	$60.0M Series D	—	Accomplice, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Cyberstarts VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Grasshopper Capital, Heavybit, Mango Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group, Bradley Horowitz, Shivon Zilis
Nov 1, 2018	Ezra AI	$4.0M Seed	—	2.12 Angels, Accomplice, Accomplice VC, Antler, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Connolley, FirstMark Capital, Grasshopper Capital, Heavybit, Practical Venture Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group, Stride VC, Andrei Dunca, Anne Wojcicki, Esther Dyson, Gokul Rajaram, Manik Gupta, Miki Kuusi
Jun 1, 2018	Wallaroo	$5.0M Seed	—	Accomplice, Boldstart Ventures, Citi Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Grasshopper Capital, Heavybit, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Softbank Group

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Leadership Team

Key people at U.S. Department Of Defense.

Tina Chong

Scout

Leadership Team

Key people at U.S. Department Of Defense.

Tina Chong

Scout

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest executive department of the U.S. federal government, responsible for coordinating and supervising all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces—Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, and, for certain missions, the Coast Guard. Its mission is to provide the military forces necessary to deter war and protect the security of the United States. The DoD operates through a vast network of agencies, commands, and installations, overseeing everything from combat operations and humanitarian aid to technological innovation and national security policy. It plays a central role in shaping the global security environment and is a major driver of defense technology, research, and industrial development.

Origin Story

The roots of the Department of Defense trace back to the founding of the United States, with the establishment of the War Department in 1789 and the Navy Department in 1798. The modern DoD was created in 1947 by the National Security Act, which merged the War and Navy Departments into a single entity to streamline military command and improve national defense coordination in the post-World War II era. Over the decades, the DoD has evolved to meet new strategic challenges, expanding its responsibilities to include space, cyber, and intelligence operations, and adapting to changing global threats and technological advancements.

Core Differentiators

Unified Command Structure: The DoD operates through a network of Unified Combatant Commands, each with broad, continuing missions across geographic or functional domains, ensuring coordinated and efficient military operations worldwide.
Technological Leadership: The department is a global leader in defense innovation, investing heavily in research and development to maintain technological superiority and address emerging threats.
Massive Scale and Reach: With over 1.3 million active-duty personnel, 742,000 civilian employees, and a presence in every time zone, the DoD is the largest employer in the United States and a key player in global security.
Integrated Ecosystem: The DoD collaborates with a wide range of agencies, private sector partners, and international allies, fostering a robust ecosystem for defense technology, industrial base development, and strategic partnerships.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

The DoD is at the forefront of several major technology trends, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space exploration, and advanced manufacturing. Its investments and procurement policies shape the direction of defense technology and influence the broader tech industry, driving innovation and creating opportunities for startups and established firms alike. The department’s focus on modernization and agility is accelerating the adoption of new technologies and reshaping the defense industrial base, making it a critical player in the global tech ecosystem.

Quick Take & Future Outlook

The U.S. Department of Defense will continue to be a dominant force in global security and technology, adapting to new threats and opportunities in an increasingly complex world. As emerging technologies like AI, quantum computing, and hypersonics mature, the DoD’s role in driving innovation and shaping the future of defense will only grow. Its ability to collaborate with the private sector, foster technological breakthroughs, and maintain a strong, agile force will be key to its ongoing impact and influence.

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unified Command Structure: The DoD operates through a network of Unified Combatant Commands, each with broad, continuing missions across geographic or functional domains, ensuring coordinated and efficient military operations worldwide.
Technological Leadership: The department is a global leader in defense innovation, investing heavily in research and development to maintain technological superiority and address emerging threats.
Massive Scale and Reach: With over 1.3 million active-duty personnel, 742,000 civilian employees, and a presence in every time zone, the DoD is the largest employer in the United States and a key player in global security.
Integrated Ecosystem: The DoD collaborates with a wide range of agencies, private sector partners, and international allies, fostering a robust ecosystem for defense technology, industrial base development, and strategic partnerships.