43 VC firms investing in aerospace & defense and logistics & supply chain at the Seed stage.
F4 Fund tracks 43 VC firms that actively invest in aerospace & defense + logistics & supply chain at the Seed stage, with check sizes ranging from $25K – $500M (median: $2.6M – $2.6M). As of June 2026, and 91% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,358+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Helios Capital Early-stage investments in commercial space, aerospace, and adjacent deeptech sectors represent transformational opportunities for humanity's future in space exploration and technology advancement. New York | $25K – $1M | 31 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 2 | ▶ Space Capital Space-based technologies — GPS, GEOINT, and SatCom — are the invisible backbone of the global economy. Space Capital invests at the intersection of space technology and global markets, backing founders building the infrastructure, distribution platforms, and applications that will generate the next wave of trillion-dollar outcomes. New York | $250K – $3M | 40 | Leads | Active | — | Open |
| 3 | ▶ Shor Capital Backing ruthlessly iterative founders at pre-consensus stages. We invest in founders before the broader market recognizes the opportunity, focusing on individuals who demonstrate exceptional ability to iterate quickly, navigate complex challenges, and maintain unwavering dedication to their vision. Miami | $100K – $500K | 25 | — | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 4 | ▶ Dyne The Blue Economy — ocean-based industries — represents a massive, underserved opportunity. DYNE partners with bold innovators building maritime technologies across trade/transportation, defense/infrastructure, natural resources, and freedom of navigation. We prioritize dual-use companies that serve both commercial maritime and national security customers. West Palm Beach, FL | $1M – $13M | 5 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 5 | ▶ Airbus Ventures Back deeptech entrepreneurs with deep technical expertise, integrity-driven vision, and complex problem-solving capabilities working at intersections of space, autonomous mobility, advanced materials, quantum computing, and climate technology. Use aerospace systems lens to identify dual-use deep-science technologies with extraordinary technical leadership and first-principles engineering expertise capable of unlocking entirely new economies. Menlo Park | $100K – $10M | 22 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 6 | ▶ MANTIS Venture Capital Mantis invests opportunistically in Seed and Series A technology-enabled startups, leveraging deep social capital across tech, media, entertainment, and finance to provide unmatched GTM support. The firm is founder-obsessed and differentiates through celebrity network access, customer introductions, talent acquisition help, and brand amplification. Santa Monica | $500K – $3M | 113 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 7 | ▶ HCVC We back founders on a mission to industrialize scientific and technological progress. Hardtech startups solve difficult technological problems using interdisciplinary mixes of technology and engineering. We provide patient, supportive capital and community to help founders navigate R&D cycles and build technically defensible products. Paris | $100K – $2.5M | 30 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 8 | ▶ Pale Blue Dot Early-stage climate tech companies building the sustainable future. We invest in both software and hardware solutions addressing climate change through optimization, adaptation, and pioneering innovations. The next billion-dollar companies will be built with climate in mind. Sweden | $500K – $2M | 40 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 9 | ▶ 9Yards Capital Back technical founders building critical infrastructure for foundational industries. Pair growth-stage capital with deep regulatory expertise and government/industry connectivity to create defensible advantages in overlooked, essential sectors. San Francisco | $3M – $10M | 34 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 10 | ▶ Origin Ventures Origin Ventures invests in bold founders leading humanity into the fifth economic era—the Artificial Intelligence Economy. AI is fundamentally transforming how we live, work, and play through infrastructure, software, applications, and services that drive productivity and enable autonomous systems. The firm is an early believer in extraordinary people with deep domain expertise who challenge norms and redefine economies. Chicago | $1M – $8M | 55 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 11 | ▶ ATX Venture Partners Seeking early-stage alpha through institutional discipline. ATX VP invests in people pioneering the future by combining Wall Street rigor with deep operating experience. Core focus on disruptive B2B software, APIs, frontier tech, and marketplaces across Supply Chain, FinTech, InsurTech, HR Tech, Aerospace, and Future of Work. Austin | $250K – $5M | 42 | Leads | Active | — | Open |
| 12 | ▶ Cantos We invest in people who will transform the physical world. Near frontier technology solving climate change, disease, armed conflict, poverty, and existential risks. Technical founders building capital-intensive, long-horizon companies. San Francisco | $400K – $1.5M | 42 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 13 | ▶ Footprint Coalition Global environmental challenges cannot be solved by established mega-corporations alone, but rather require breakthrough innovation from a diverse set of new companies. We combine venture capital with integrated storytelling and media to create culture-defining content around climate solutions and sustainable technology adoption. Los Angeles | $250K – $15M | 32 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 14 | ▶ UP Partners The next two decades will see dramatic changes in mobility across ground, air, sea, and space. We invest in entrepreneurs building frontier technologies that make movement cleaner, faster, safer, and lower-cost, leveraging our extensive relationships with global companies. Santa Monica | $1M – $10M | 31 | Both | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 15 | ▶ Broom Ventures Backs extraordinary pre-seed and seed technology founders, with hands-on technical, operational, finance, and leadership support delivered with a collaborative co-founder attitude. San Francisco | $250K – $750K | 40 | Follows | Active | ~1 mo | — |
| 16 | ▶ 8VC Partner with elite founders building transformational technologies that create lasting economic and societal value. Focus on Smart Enterprise across five sectors: Logistics, Life Sciences, Healthcare, IT Infrastructure, and Government/Defense. Invest in platforms that enable human experts to solve non-linear problems through data integration and network effects. Austin | $500K – $50M | 30 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 17 | ▶ Angular Ventures Backs inception-stage technical founders across Europe and Israel building solutions for hard markets including AI infrastructure, space/aerospace, advanced manufacturing, energy, biology, and other deep-tech verticals. London | $500K – $5M | 46 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 18 | ▶ Kindred Ventures Kindred backs visionary and relentless founders building the future using technology and science at the earliest stages, often helping form companies before they exist. With Kindred Ventures IV and Kindred Selector II, the firm is emphasizing the novel intelligence frontier: AGI-capable models and harnesses that extend human capabilities, new AI-native consumer and enterprise experiences, physical AI, compute, infrastructure, energy, science, outer space, and inner space. San Francisco | $500K – $5M | 54 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 19 | ▶ Pax Ventures Pax Technica: The next era of American global leadership will emerge from physical-world technological superiority — reinventing defense, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, and critical infrastructure. Backs mission-driven founders tackling the hardest industrial-scale problems. Menlo Park | $1M – $4M | 18 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 20 | ▶ Inertia Ventures Inertia invests in AI-native companies built to become core infrastructure for legacy industries, especially platforms operating in regulated, context-heavy, and physical-world workflows where durable data, compliance, audit trails, or embodied operations create compounding advantages. New York | $2M – $15M | 66 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 21 | ▶ Construct Capital Foundational industries (manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy) have been neglected for decades. Tech founders can unlock trillions in value by applying software, AI, automation, and cloud infrastructure to transform these sectors. This is the largest venture opportunity: tripling the Industrials market cap from $3.7T to $55T by 2050. Washington | $2M – $6M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 22 | ▶ Crosscut Ventures Partner with visionary founders building category-defining frontier technologies that address humanity's most pressing problems. We invest in deep tech, hardware, and climate solutions emerging from technical communities like SpaceX, focusing on founders with big ambitions, not incremental ideas. Los Angeles | $500K – $10M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 23 | ▶ Blackhorn Ventures Industry 4.0 thesis: transformation and decarbonization of industrial economy requires unprecedented digital infrastructure. Convergence of AI and industrial policy creates opportunity to digitize/decarbonize physical asset base while improving resource efficiency and national security. Boulder, Colorado | $500K – $15M | 17 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 24 | ▶ SpeedInvest Backs globally ambitious technology companies from pre-seed and seed through selected growth rounds using specialist EMEA sector teams and a platform model for capital, customers, talent, follow-on investors, and operational support. Vienna | $250K – $30M | 49 | Leads | Active | — | Open |
| 25 | ▶ Boost VC Back the quirky underdog pursuing seemingly impossible ideas. Frontier tech (aerospace, biotech, climate, robotics, crypto, AI, VR/AR) will create the next generation of legendary companies. Technical founders with deep domain expertise can solve the hardest problems in physics, chemistry, and computing. San Mateo, California | $500K – $3M | 30 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 26 | ▶ DFS Lab Digital financial services in Africa should augment existing informal and agent-based networks rather than replace them ("cyborgs over androids"). We use proprietary research on frontier markets to guide investments and provide portfolio companies with strategic insights on market opportunity. Seattle | $50K – $1M | 18 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 27 | ▶ Riot Ventures Modernize critical industries through deep technology. We are dedicated to backing ambitious, technically sophisticated founders solving hard problems in traditionally underserved sectors. We provide capital, operational guidance, board partnership, and network access—supporting companies from pre-seed through growth stages. | $500K – $100M | 25 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 28 | ▶ Jovono We invest in paradigm shifters—truly disruptive technologies that change our perspective of the world. We believe in missionary founders committed to their vision, and we focus on business-team-idea-timing fit, not just product-market fit. We target transformative companies across defense, climate, fintech, legal tech, and emerging domains. Los Angeles | $1M – $25M | 23 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 29 | ▶ Brickyard Extraordinary founders execute faster when isolated from distractions and provided intensive on-site support. We seek junkyard dogs with high agency, non-obvious vision, delusional optimism, and execution discipline. Category matters far less than founder quality. Chattanooga, TN | $100K – $500K | 52 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 30 | ▶ Saga Ventures Conviction-based seed investing in ambitious founders applying technology—especially AI—to solve the world's hardest problems for every American. Operator-led with deep hands-on support across sales, engineering hiring, and Series A positioning. Austin | $2M – $2.5M | 16 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 31 | ▶ Decisive Point Amplify founder impact through capital paired with deep expertise in government market access, federal R&D funding capture, and government contracting strategy. Focus on dual-use technologies addressing national security, defense, energy, and infrastructure challenges. Beacon, NY | $500K – $10M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 32 | ▶ Lightbank Lightbank invests in disruptive technology companies led by great founders in dynamic markets with world-class products. The firm believes exceptional founders and opportunities exist everywhere, especially in overlooked geographies like the Midwest. We partner with early-stage founders and provide operator-heavy support beyond capital. Chicago | $500K – $5M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 33 | ▶ Commonweal Ventures Entrepreneurs who work constructively with government to harness its unique strengths—scale, credibility, regulatory power, data, and funding—enjoy asymmetric advantages. 24% of venture-backed unicorns used government support. We partner with founders to unlock government as a growth lever. New York | $500K – $2M | 26 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 34 | ▶ Expansion Venture Capital Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies. We invest early in great & passionate entrepreneurs and serve as long-term partners. Available 24/7 to help founders with mentorship, product-market fit, fundraising, business development, customer acquisition, talent sourcing, and strategic partnerships. New York | $250K – $1M | 30 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 35 | ▶ Founder Collective We invest at the earliest stages and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. We stay small by design to remain aligned with founders. We're sector-agnostic, conviction-driven, capital-efficient, and believe in founder/market fit and intrinsic value over hype. Boston | $250K – $3M | 29 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 36 | ▶ Tiger Global Management Leading global companies that leverage technological innovation across public and private markets. Proven founders (especially ex-Googlers, AWS, Stripe) with large TAMs (billions+), product-led growth, and global ambitions. Conviction-based investing post-2022 correction emphasizing quality over quantity. New York | $1M – $100M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 37 | ▶ TenOneTen Ventures Technical founders backing technical founders. We invest early in technical teams transforming major industries facing existential threats and tremendous opportunities. We target essential sectors—healthcare, logistics, real estate, manufacturing—where technical innovation solves critical problems. Los Angeles | $250K – $5M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 38 | ▶ Creative Destruction Lab The primary constraint for seed-stage, science-based entrepreneurs is access to experienced business judgment. CDL provides objective-based mentoring from accomplished entrepreneurs, angels, and scientists to help founders prioritize tasks and de-risk their businesses. Toronto | $50K – $250K | 20 | — | 1mo | ~2 wks | Open |
| 39 | ▶ MiLA Capital (Make in LA) Emerging hardware founders are overlooked by traditional VC. By combining capital with hands-on manufacturing expertise, infrastructure access, and operational support, we unlock value for founders building tech you can touch. Chatsworth, CA | $1.5M – $2.5M | 15 | Leads | Slowing | ~1 mo | Open |
| 40 | ▶ Evolution Venture Capital Partners Culture-Tech companies that disrupt and define how we live, work, play, and interact with the world every day. We invest in passionate founders building transformative products that change cultural behaviors. New York | $500K – $6M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 41 | ▶ Gigafund Back the world's most ambitious and transformative entrepreneurs capable of building world-defining companies over 20+ years. Invest in founders with independent thought and first-principles vision to solve humanity's biggest problems across all sectors and geographies. Austin | $1M – $500M | 18 | Leads | Active | 3+ mo | Open |
| 42 | ▶ Flucas Ventures Democratize access to venture capital by building large syndicates of non-traditional LPs. Invest across all stages, sectors, and geographies based on founder quality and market conviction, not category restrictions. Enable 2,000+ diverse co-investors to participate alongside marquee firms like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz while maintaining founder-friendly economics. Miami | $250K – $5M | 17 | Follows | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 43 | ▶ TheoryForge Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing. | $200K – $500K | 38 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
Investors on this page also frequently invest in these sectors
What other stages do these firms also invest in?
What other sectors do these firms also invest in?
Firms that frequently co-invest with investors on this page
F4 Fund tracks 43 VC firms that actively invest in aerospace & defense + logistics & supply chain at the Seed stage. These firms are ranked using a composite score that weighs data completeness (30%), portfolio depth (30%), investment recency (25%), and stage alignment (15%).
Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for seed aerospace & defense + logistics & supply chain investors is $2.6M – $2.6M, with a full range from $25K – $500M. The distribution breaks down as: 4 firms in the <$500K range, 5 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 7 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 12 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 9 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 6 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 43 firms tracked, 91% lead or co-lead rounds, and 5% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.
The best seed aerospace & defense + logistics & supply chain investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 36% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 32 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.
Firm profiles are continuously updated through F4's research pipeline, which combines LLM-powered web research, portfolio analysis, and transcript extraction. The ranking data refreshes every 12 hours. Editorial analysis is reviewed weekly. Individual firm profiles are re-researched on a 30-day cycle or when new information surfaces.