Raj Shah
Managing Partner @ Shield Capital
San Francisco, United States
Raj Shah is a Series A investor at Shield Capital in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Aerospace. Raj Shah is the chairman of Arceo.ai, a cyber-security start-up. Raj is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Most recently he was the managing partner of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), reporting to the Secretary of Defense. Raj led DIUx in its efforts to strengthen U.S. armed forcesthrough contractual and cultural bridges between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. Previously, Raj was senior director of strategy at Palo Alto Networks, which acquired Morta Security, where he was chief executive officer and co-founder. He began his business career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Raj serves as an F-16 pilot in the US Air Force and has completed multiple combat deployments. He holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Raj Shah invests in
Stages Raj Shah invests in
Countries Raj Shah invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (27%)
- Aerospace 2 (18%)
- Cyber Security 2 (18%)
- Machine Learning 2 (18%)
- SaaS 1 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (55%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (9%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 6 (55%)
- Israel 1 (9%)
Investments
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| TENEX.AI is an automation-first security company designed for the AI-driven era. By leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, TENEX.AI automates and enhances security measures to protect digital assets, networks, and data. Their solutions are built to address modern threats in real-time, providing proactive defense and rapid response. As thelandscape of cyber threats evolves, TENEX.AI ensures businesses stay one step ahead with intelligent, automated security solutions that minimize risks and maximize protection. | $250M / Series B / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| TENEX.AI is an automation-first security company designed for the AI-driven era. By leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, TENEX.AI automates and enhances security measures to protect digital assets, networks, and data. Their solutions are built to address modern threats in real-time, providing proactive defense and rapid response. As thelandscape of cyber threats evolves, TENEX.AI ensures businesses stay one step ahead with intelligent, automated security solutions that minimize risks and maximize protection. | $27M / Series A / Sep 11, 2025 | ||
| TENEX.AI is an automation-first security company designed for the AI-driven era. By leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, TENEX.AI automates and enhances security measures to protect digital assets, networks, and data. Their solutions are built to address modern threats in real-time, providing proactive defense and rapid response. As thelandscape of cyber threats evolves, TENEX.AI ensures businesses stay one step ahead with intelligent, automated security solutions that minimize risks and maximize protection. | Seed / Jan 20, 2025 | ||
| Vorlon enables continuous near real-time detection and identification of third-party apps consuming your data. Our agentless patent-pending solution facilitates risk profiling of apps, and provides AI-driven behavioral analytics with response recommendations. | $15.7M / Series A / Apr 17, 2024 | ||
| Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 11, 2024 | ||
| Albedo is the full-stack VLEO company. We deliver exquisite performance with resilient, agile architectures at a fraction of traditional costs. Our Precision platform supports a variety of mission types - just bring your payload. Clarity-1 is flying in VLEO today. | $35M / Series A / Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| Diveplane Corporation is a groundbreaking technology startup dedicated to keeping the humanity in AI. Their first project is an Understandable AI decision system. They believe in Responsible AI, meaning machines ought to preserve, amplify, and empower the best intentions of humanity both in how they function technically, and how they are applied tosolve problems – unlike uninterpretable black box systems that make life-altering decisions in an instant, but can’t explain why.Their proprietary and patented AI platform is faster than current off-the-shelf solutions and can train on significantly less data, while also addressing the technical shortcomings and societal concerns that have kept many from trusting and adopting AI. | $25M / Series A / Sep 12, 2022 | ||
| The company's mission focuses on establishing trustworthy AI as the global standard by redesigning it from the ground up, ensuring transparency and human comprehensibility in every aspect.Howso is an AI-driven platform designed to assist enterprises in preparing and analyzing data for AI use cases. This is achieved through the UnderstandableAI® Platform—a data-centric AI solution offering a clear alternative to traditional neural networks.Howso (formerly “Diveplane”) was co-founded by Dr. Mike Capps, Dr. Chris Hazard, and Mike Resnick in 2017. In September 2023, the company rebranded to Howso, alongside the release of our open source project. | $25M / Series A / Sep 12, 2022 | ||
| Albedo is the full-stack VLEO company. We deliver exquisite performance with resilient, agile architectures at a fraction of traditional costs. Our Precision platform supports a variety of mission types - just bring your payload. Clarity-1 is flying in VLEO today. | $48M / Series A / Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Overwatch Imaging designs and manufactures imaging systems with custom onboard AI software for piloted aircraft and drones. The precision imaging systems help organizations quickly find what they are looking for from the air, so they can focus less on the search and more on the best response. Specific uses of Overwatch Imaging systems includeautomated land surveillance, maritime patrol and search, and linear infrastructure inspection. Overwatch Imaging was founded in 2016 by UAS and airborne imaging experts and is based in Hood River, Oregon. | $11.2M / Apr 05, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Shield Capital
Shield Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building frontier technologies. Shield Capital is a team of veteran investors, founders, and national security leaders focused on helping founders build solutions in cybersecurity, AI, space, and autonomy for commercial and government enterprises.
Shield Capital Contacts
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Michael Brown
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Michael Brown
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Philip M. Bilden
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Raj Shah
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