# Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars

> Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars is a VC fund backing Software. See 22 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Feb 2020
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- Website: https://www.techstars.com/programs/air-force-program/

Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and Aerospace. Interested in dual-use technologies that detect, track, identify, characterize, attribute or mitigate unmanned systems, to include sensors, compute hardware/software, image processing, AI, sensor fusion, secure comms, trusted ID, power systems, advanced materials, and man-machine interface. In addition, we seek immersive-training technologies,to include AR/VR and adult learning methods, gamification, social delivery and self-directed learning, data-enabled recruiting, training and education.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 59% |
| Aerospace | 5 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 23% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 18% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 18% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 17 | 77% |
| Seed | 5 | 23% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 86% |
| Canada | 2 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maëlle Gavet | CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maelle-gave |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MSBAI | We've reached a zero to one moment when all engineers will begin to use simulation to inform their day to day work, and it will no longer just be a small number of specialists running these codes. MSBAI develops a 'Universal Interface for Simulation' called GURU — a cognitive AI assistant that enables untrained users to runspecialized simulation software. MSBAI, an Air Force Techstars 2020 company, delivers a game changing enabler for the mass adoption of simulation like never before. The broad range of GURU clients include the Air Force and Missile Defense Agency for trajectory simulation and digital engineering for aerial platform development. We are also applying GURU to minimize scenario generation time in virtual world immersive training. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | http://msb.ai |
| Spiral Technology | Spiral helps factory workers increase the accuracy of quality inspections and reduce error rates by applying Augmented Reality and Machine Learning to create inspection records. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://spiral.technology |
| Southie Autonomy | Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The companywas founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://www.southieautonomyworks.com |
| Mesodyne | Mesodyne is an engineering and manufacturing company pioneering revolutionary methods for electricity generation – including our patented, breakthrough LightCell technology which converts any fuel to electricity via light. We’re on a mission to put rugged, long-lasting, portable, and reliable power generation into the hands of military andcommercial users who need it most. Mesodyne was founded in 2018 by Drs. Veronika Stelmakh and Walker Chan based on their PhD work at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://www.mesodyne.com/ |
| PeakMetrics | PeakMetrics provides a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats. Using state-of-the-art ML technology, PeakMetrics analyzes more than 1.5 million media sources and 10 different social media platforms to identify media manipulation and adversarial attacks inreal-time, before they cause damage. Organizations use PeakMetrics to discern source credibility, understand how audiences spread narratives, and quantify risk and response scenarios — without spending millions on crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Detect, decipher, defend at peakmetrics.com.The internet is manipulated. Narratives are engineered, accelerated by AI, and amplified by algorithms before most organizations even see them coming. PeakMetrics is an AI-powered narrative intelligence platform built to help enterprises, agencies, and public sector organizations see through it. We built AI agents that surface where threats are coming from, who is driving them, and where they are headed next, so teams can protect their brand, their reputation, and their bottom line before it reaches the headlines. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | http://www.peakmetrics.com/ |
| Target Arm | Target Arm is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. | $420K | Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://www.targetarm.com/ |
| Beagle Learning | Beagle helps in-person and remote teams make critical decisions faster by providing a simple, systematized process to gather input from the team and select the most important ideas to focus on. Beagle's AI system measures the quality of the ideas teams choose, and automatically records the logic behind decisions made to avoid repeated work andbring new teams up to speed faster. They provide this through a SaaS web app that can be integrated into existing learning management tools and communication platforms.Beagle works with higher education institutions, companies, and the US Department of Defense to increase trainee retention, accelerate team buy-in, decrease unnecessary conflict, and speed up critical decision making. | $290K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://en.beaglelearning.com |
| Vermeer | Vermeer is a mixed reality and AI-enabled visualization and command and control for autonomous systems in GPS-denied environments. It is an AR mission planning tool and autonomous sUAS mission execution for both DoD and commercial customers. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://getvermeer.com |
| Lauretta.io | We allow facility owners, managers, and operators to understand incidents, predict future events and understand the root cause of the current affairs. We do this by turning 350 million close circuit cameras in the world in a unified smart camera system that can infer occupant activity, behavior, and intent through pattern of life analysis, allowingreaction in real-time.Actively deployed in four countries and surveying 90,000 square feet of real estate, Lauretta.io has resulting in a 30% decrease in property management costs, an 8% uptick in retail revenue and can even be used for realtime contact tracing of COVID19 patients. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 | https://www.lauretta.io |
| VeriTX | VeriTX®, founded in 2019, is led by a team of Veterans and National Security experts. Our mission is to ensure users consume only trusted, tamper-proof data. With QuDEFENSE™, we deliver quantum-safe, blockchain-secured data and file transfers, built to protect what matters most. Headquartered in Buffalo, NY. |  | Seed | Oct 10, 2019 | http://www.veritx.co |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [77](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/77) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ASU ScaleU](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asu-scaleu) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [gener8tor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gener8tor) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learnlaunchfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Polaris Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polaris-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars invest in?

Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars invests primarily in Software, Aerospace and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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