# Lavrock Ventures

> Lavrock Ventures is a VC fund in Mclean backing Software and Manufacturing. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mclean, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Fund size: $25M
- Last fund: Mar 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lavrock-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lavrockvc
- Website: http://www.lavrockvc.com/

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

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$12M |
| Series A | $3.9M–$28M |
| Series B | $9M–$350M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 13% |
| Aerospace | 5 | 11% |
| Geospatial | 4 | 9% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 36% |
| Seed | 13 | 29% |
| Series B | 6 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 53% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Hanks | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-hanks-2 |
| Jim Hunt | Co-Founder & General Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-hunt-2 |
| Stephen Smoot | Managing Partner, Co-Founder | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-smoot |
| Alex Poulin | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-poulin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sphere | 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 |  |
| CASIMIR |  | $12M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Morpheus Space | 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 | Pallas 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. | $350M | Series B | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| Launchpad.build | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Castelion | Pallas 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. | $70M | Series A | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| Dataships | Dataships is a data privacy software and services company, specializing in automating GDPR and CCPA compliance. The company, which is co-located in Dublin and San Francisco, was founded by Ryan McErlane and Michael Storan in 2019. | $7M | Series A | Jan 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lavrock Ventures invest in?

Lavrock Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 45 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.

### How do I contact Lavrock Ventures?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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