# Lockheed Martin Ventures

> Lockheed Martin Ventures is a VC fund backing Aerospace and Software. See 135 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, United States
- Total investments: 135
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $200M
- Last fund: Aug 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lockheed-martin
- Website: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are/lockheed-martin-ventures.html

Lockheed Martin Ventures is a VC fund in Bethesda focused on Aerospace and Software. Lockheed Martin Ventures is the venture arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation. The mission of Lockheed Martin Ventures is to make strategic investments in companies that are developing disruptive, cutting-edge technologies in core businesses and new markets important to Lockheed Martin. These emerging innovations have the potential to becomefoundational technologies that solve the complex challenges customers face.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $10M–$41M |
| Series B | $12M–$100M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $8M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 20 | 15% |
| Software | 19 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 16 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 9% |

98 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 27 | 20% |
| Series B | 26 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 17 | 13% |
| Seed | 14 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 64 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frank A. St. John | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-a-st-john |
| J. Christopher Moran | VP & GM LM Ventures | 67 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-christopher-moran |
| Jim Taiclet | Chairman, President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-d-taiclet |
| Jim Taiclet | Chairman, President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-taiclet |
| John W. Mollard | Acting Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-w-mollard |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Venus Aerospace | Venus Aerospace is a space company that provides an innovative approach to hypersonic transportation. Venus Aerospace is a startup aerospace company focused on engineering the future of hypersonic flight. We are making one-hour global transport possible to connect the world and make it safer.The company is an expert team of PhDs, rocketscientists, and engineers taking on the biggest challenges in aerospace at Mach 9 speed. The company also takes pride in being moms and dads, military veterans, and BBQ enthusiasts. | $91M | Series B | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Antaris | Antaris develops cloud-based software platforms that support the design, simulation, and operation of satellite missions. The company provides a unified system that enables organizations to model entire space missions digitally, from early concept through deployment and in-orbit operations. Its core offering, the Antaris Cloud Platform, allowsusers to design satellites, test configurations, and simulate real-world mission scenarios using digital twin technology before committing to hardware. This approach helps teams evaluate performance, validate decisions, and reduce risks associated with complex space missions. | $28M | Series A | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Arlula | Arlula provides a single integration point for a global network of satellite imagery. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| Radiant | Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. |  | Series D | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| SatVu | Satellite Vu will monitor the temperature of every building on the planet in near real time to determine valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency and carbon footprint. ​We are passionate about supporting decision making around the world related to: the Energy industry, investors monitoring economic activity, sustainable finance.Natural Disaster responders, building operators & Plastics Cleanup. | $40.9M |  | Feb 16, 2026 |  |
| Perseus Materials | Perseus Materials specialises in moldless composite production by using technologies that combine pultrusion and 3D printing to create lightweight, resilient structures. |  | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Machina Labs | Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning. | $124M | Series C | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Cambium | Cambium develops biomaterials for fields such as defense, space transport, aerospace, and renewable energy. Leveraging the Deep Tech convergence between synthetic biology, materials science, computation & automation, it delivers radical step changes in advanced material performance and sustainability to improve today’s products and enabletomorrow’s. | $100M | Series B | Jan 05, 2026 |  |
| Agile Space Industries | Agile Space Industries designs, builds and tests in-space propulsion systems for satellites and spacecraft using state-of-the-art 3D metal alloy printing techniques. They manufacture and test new engine designs in our purpose-built propulsion test facility in Durango, Colorado. They have over a decade of experience testing rocket engines fordefense, civil, and commercial programs. Their engineers have worked with industry leaders like SpaceX, NASA, and Rocketdyne. | $17M | Series A | Jan 02, 2026 |  |
| Mythic | Mythic is a diverse group of individuals focused on developing cutting-edge analog matrix processors based on our unique analog compute-in-memory. Their products are the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor, MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe Card, and MM1076 M.2 M Key Card. They offer AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device. | $125M | Series D | Dec 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 135 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lockheed Martin Ventures invest in?

Lockheed Martin Ventures invests primarily in Aerospace, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 135 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 Lockheed Martin Ventures's check size?

Lockheed Martin Ventures typically joins rounds of $10M–$41M at Series A, $12M–$100M at Series B and $8M–$18M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lockheed Martin Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Lockheed Martin Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Lockheed Martin Ventures?

The team at Lockheed Martin Ventures includes Frank A. St. John (Chief Operating Officer), J. Christopher Moran (VP & GM LM Ventures) and Jim Taiclet (Chairman, President & CEO), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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