# David Hodge

> David Hodge is a seed investor at Standard Fleet backing Aerospace and Apps. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Standard Fleet
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwhodge/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/davidhodge
- Website: https://x.com/davidhodge

David Hodge is a seed investor at Standard Fleet in San Francisco focused on Aerospace and Apps. David Hodge is the CEO at Standard Fleet

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 3 | 21% |
| Apps | 2 | 14% |
| Internet | 2 | 14% |
| Space Travel | 2 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AstroForge | AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroid. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, break it up, refine it, and return only what’s valuable. | $13M | Seed | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Inversion | Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries. | $10M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Regent | Regent develops an electric boat-flying machine for coastal transportation. The company designs and manufactures electric flying machines that will transport commercial passengers. The vehicle, known as a seaglider, is a wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates a few meters above the water's surface and combines an airplane's high speedwith a boat's low operating cost. Seagliders are designed to travel at speeds of up to 180 mph (290 km/h) with a range suitable for regional trips, connecting coastal cities and islands. The company aims to revolutionize regional transportation by creating fast, efficient, and sustainable seagliders that connect coastal communities. | $9M | Seed | Apr 20, 2021 |  |
| Regent | Regent develops an electric boat-flying machine for coastal transportation. The company designs and manufactures electric flying machines that will transport commercial passengers. The vehicle, known as a seaglider, is a wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates a few meters above the water's surface and combines an airplane's high speedwith a boat's low operating cost. Seagliders are designed to travel at speeds of up to 180 mph (290 km/h) with a range suitable for regional trips, connecting coastal cities and islands. The company aims to revolutionize regional transportation by creating fast, efficient, and sustainable seagliders that connect coastal communities. | $9M | Seed | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Relativity Space | Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. a vertically integrated technology platform, Relativity is at the forefront of an inevitable shift toward software-defined manufacturing by fusing 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. It offers a radically simplified supplychain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Relativity Space is backed by leading investors including Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. | $500M | Series D | Nov 17, 2020 |  |
| Volumetric | Volumetric is an advanced biomaterials and biofabrication company that develops a 3D bioprinting platform intended to create materials with living cells with applications in biomaterials, cancer research, and human organ replacements. |  | Seed | Jul 20, 2020 |  |
| Fly.io | Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 10, 2020 |  |
| Volumetric | Volumetric is an advanced biomaterials and biofabrication company that develops a 3D bioprinting platform intended to create materials with living cells with applications in biomaterials, cancer research, and human organ replacements. |  | Seed | Mar 18, 2020 |  |
| Relativity Space | Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. a vertically integrated technology platform, Relativity is at the forefront of an inevitable shift toward software-defined manufacturing by fusing 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. It offers a radically simplified supplychain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Relativity Space is backed by leading investors including Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. | $140M | Series C | Oct 01, 2019 |  |
| Relativity Space | Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. a vertically integrated technology platform, Relativity is at the forefront of an inevitable shift toward software-defined manufacturing by fusing 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. It offers a radically simplified supplychain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Relativity Space is backed by leading investors including Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. | $35M | Series B | Mar 27, 2018 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Playground Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playground-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Standard Fleet

VC Fund

Software for electric vehicle owners

1 contacts available at Standard Fleet.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Hodge | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-hodge |

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## FAQ

### What does David Hodge invest in?

David Hodge invests primarily in Aerospace, Apps and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Hodge's check size?

David Hodge typically joins rounds of $120k–$13M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Hodge participates in.

### How do I contact David Hodge?

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### When did David Hodge last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Hodge closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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