Lavrock Ventures
VC Fund
Mclean, United States
Lavrock Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage (Series A) investments. It seeks to invest in cybersecurity and enterprise software companies. The firm often invests in commercial-focused technologies with potential relevance in National Security
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lavrock Ventures invests in
Stages Lavrock Ventures invests in
Countries Lavrock Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.8M–$12M
- Series A
- $3.9M–$28M
- Series B
- $9M–$350M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 8 (17%)
- Manufacturing 8 (17%)
- Software 5 (11%)
- Analytics 5 (11%)
- Military 4 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 16 (34%)
- Seed 14 (30%)
- Series B 6 (13%)
- Series C 4 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 27 (57%)
- Ireland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Hanks
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Co-Founder & Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jim Hunt
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Stephen Smoot
Managing Partner, Co-Founder
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Managing Partner, Co-Founder | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Alex Poulin
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castelion is a defense tech company that develops and manufactures modern weapons systems for the U.S. military. | $800M / Series C / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Castelion is a venture-backed defense tech company applying modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to critical national security challenges, specifically to solve affordability, scale, and supply chain robustness. The company combines vertical integration, rapid iteration, and high-cadence testing to build hardware that isengineered from the ground up for scalable production.Castelion’s core offerings include solid-rocket motors, missile avionics, flight-control systems, seekers, and full strike-weapon assemblies, all designed for compatibility with existing military launch platforms. | $800M / Series C / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Sphere is the data layer for research. Sphere gives your team university-level research access without the multimillion-dollar cost. It brings the latest methods and findings from the world’s leading journals and standards directly into the decisions you make every day - including proprietary research content that even the largest AI models don’thave access to. It’s like having the world’s top researchers in the room with you. | $3M / Seed / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
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CASIMIR
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$12M / Seed / May 12, 2026 | ||
| Morpheus Space is an aerospace company that produces a modular and electric propulsion system for the small satellite industry. The company is disrupting the NewSpace industry by introducing Agile Constellations, a fusion between cutting-edge electric propulsion and Artificial Intelligence. The solution package enables satellite service providersto operate entire constellations as one entity. Thanks to the highly efficient propulsion systems, each satellite can perform countless orbital maneuvers, which allows for the first time the possibility of "objective first" mission planning with an automated trade-off. This provides a never before seen flexibility of satellite networks that is exploited by the A.I. to optimally morph the constellations to fulfill the user's objectives, which can range from revisit frequencies to observation of moving POIs. | $15M / Series A / Feb 05, 2026 | ||
| Castelion is a defense tech company that develops and manufactures modern weapons systems for the U.S. military. | $350M / Series B / Dec 05, 2025 | ||
| Launchpad is developing technology that will allow products to be delivered in days rather than months. The company is creating a user-friendly system of advanced software and autonomous hardware that will allow for a streamlined AI-driven digital thread from product CAD to actual product assembly. Launchpad's digitool is a networkedautomation solution that can perform a wide range of assembly tasks, such as pick and place, fastening, dispensing, and more, using only a product CAD file. The company's mission to enable manufacturing's future by increasing automation and improving utilization | $8.5M / Series A / Oct 15, 2025 | ||
| Aventra Defense Systems operates as a defense technology start-up, that develops low-cost glide and guidance systems. | $3M / Seed / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Proteus Space compresses the spacecraft definition and AI&T life-cycle from years to months, delivering full CAD based Design Packages with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) validation on record timelines. This transformational speed and scale, backed by Unlimited Data Rights to the resulting design specifications, fundamentally changes the ability torapidly prototype and field responsive space assets on radically shorter timelines. | $6.1M / Seed / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers. | $30M / Series B / Feb 06, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does Lavrock Ventures invest in?
Lavrock Ventures invests primarily in Aerospace, Manufacturing and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 47 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 Lavrock Ventures's check size?
Lavrock Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$12M at Seed, $3.9M–$28M at Series A and $9M–$350M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lavrock Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Lavrock Ventures?
The team at Lavrock Ventures includes Daniel Hanks (Co-Founder & Managing Director), Jim Hunt (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Stephen Smoot (Managing Partner, Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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