# Dayna Grayson

> Dayna Grayson is a Series A investor at Guideline backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Guideline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guideline-technologies-inc)
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dayna-grayson/0/750/15/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/daynagrayson
- Website: https://x.com/daynagrayson

Dayna Grayson is a Series A investor at Guideline in Washington focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Dayna Grayson is Co-founder and General Partner of Construct Capital, an early stage focused venture firm that invests in extraordinary founders building technology to transform the most foundational industries of our economy. Sectors from manufacturing and supply chain to food and mobility drive half our economy’s GDP yet are failing to meetcustomer expectations.Dayna was formerly an investing partner at NEA. She was an early investor and a board director at companies such as Onshape (acquired by PTC), Framebridge (acquired by Graham Holdings), DesktopMetal, and Tulip, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (Systems Engineering) and Harvard Business School, where she serves as a venture partner today.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 10% |
| Internet | 4 | 8% |
| Hardware | 3 | 6% |
| Analytics | 3 | 6% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 14 | 29% |
| Series B | 10 | 21% |
| Seed | 9 | 19% |
| Series C | 5 | 10% |
| Series D | 2 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $1.4B | Series D | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Podium Automation | Podium Automation offers a no-code industrial automation platform that connects factory equipment, sensors, and software systems into unified workflows. The company focuses on replacing manual, spreadsheet-based processes with configurable digital workflows tailored to manufacturing operations. Its tools let operations and engineering teams buildautomations for tasks such as production tracking, quality checks, material flow, and equipment monitoring without custom code. Podium Automation integrates data from machines and existing systems to create real-time visibility into shop-floor performance. The platform supports alerts, dashboards, and workflow logic that help coordinate people, machines, and data across the plant. This approach aims to shorten deployment time for automation projects and make continuous process improvement more accessible to manufacturing teams. | $18M | Series A | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Swarm Aero | Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. The company builds large uncrewed aircraft and supporting software that allow multiple drones to collaborate and perform tasks as a coordinated networkrather than as independent vehicles. These systems use onboard computing, sensors, and artificial intelligence to enable autonomous flight behaviors and collective decision-making among groups of drones. The technology platform includes aircraft hardware, swarm coordination software, and command-and-control tools that allow operators to deploy and manage large numbers of drones. A swarm node architecture integrates edge computing and distributed sensors on each vehicle so that drones can communicate with one another, share environmental data, and adapt their behavior during missions. Through this system, operators can translate mission objectives into coordinated flight patterns and task assignments executed by the swarm.Swarm Aero’s aircraft and software systems support applications such as intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, cargo delivery, communications relay, disaster response, and security operations. The platform is designed to enable operations in environments where communications may be limited or conditions change rapidly, allowing autonomous drones to coordinate actions and adjust routes in real time. | $35M | Series A | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. |  | Private Equity | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| Amplio | Amplio enables you to reclaim control of your supply chain by making sourcing more cost-effective. | $11.1M | Series A | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $110M | Series C | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Folio | Folio is a financial operations platform tailored for the hospitality sector that simplifies complex back-office processes, enabling properties to gain a competitive edge. | $14M | Series A | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Laminar | IoT-enabled analytics platform providing data-driven optimization of industrial liquid systems for manufacturing | $12M | Series A | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Impilo | Impilo is a developer of digital health operating systems aimed at improving the infrastructure underlying remote healthcare. Through its full-stack middleware technology, the company's systems provide an e-commerce and application programming interface for handling purchases, logistics, and configuration, allowing hospitals and healthcareorganizations to manage their digital health remote patient monitoring devices and supplies. | $11.5M | Series A | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| Advex AI | Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 04, 2024 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [2048 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2048-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ge-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Revolution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revolution) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Guideline

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Guideline an all-inclusive 401(k) technology designed for growing businesses. Guideline handles all plan administration, including set-up, participant enrollment and education, recordkeeping, investment management, compliance, and reporting. Guideline is the first full-service 401(k) with straightforward pricing of one flat fee per participant, incontrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.

5 contacts available at Guideline.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aydin Senkut | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aydin-senkut |
| Brian McDermott | Director of Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-mcdermott-2 |
| Carol B. Ho | General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carol-b-ho |
| Dayna Grayson | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dayna-grayson |
| Jason Williams | Chief Customer Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-williams-7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Dayna Grayson invest in?

Dayna Grayson invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 48 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dayna Grayson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dayna Grayson closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 48 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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