Veteran Ventures Capital
VC Fund
Knoxville, United States
Veteran Ventures Capital is a VC fund in Knoxville focused on Aerospace and Manufacturing. Veteran Ventures Capital backs elite veteran-led teams building dual-use technologies vital to U.S. national security. We invest at the early growth stage, focusing on companies with commercial traction, technical depth, and clear alignment to defense, aerospace, cyber, energy, and space priorities.Our investment thesis is built on a simple butpowerful edge: veterans know how to execute. They’ve operated in complex environments, managed risk at scale, and led teams under pressure. We channel that same operational excellence into scalable companies driving strategic advantage for the U.S. and its allies.Fund I deployed capital into 15 companies that collectively secured over $130 million in non-dilutive government funding—de-risking our positions and validating mission-critical demand. With Fund II, we are doubling down: investing larger checks, supporting technical founders, and helping translate defense-grade technologies into enduring commercial businesses.We see asymmetric return potential where most investors hesitate: in dual-use, defensible tech led by proven operators.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Veteran Ventures Capital invests in
Stages Veteran Ventures Capital invests in
Countries Veteran Ventures Capital invests in
Contacts
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Derren Burrell
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Joshua Weed
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3 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 6 (24%)
- Manufacturing 4 (16%)
- Information Technology 3 (12%)
- Drones 2 (8%)
- Security 2 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (36%)
- Seed 4 (16%)
- Series B 4 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (8%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Derren Burrell
President / Founder
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President / Founder | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
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Joshua Weed
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Hybron
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Hybron is a company that focus on composites manufacturing technology that develops composite parts, particularly for industries. | $25M / Seed / Apr 06, 2026 | |
Cambium
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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
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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 | |
Vatn Systems
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Vatn Systems builds affordable autonomous underwater vehicles that act in cooperative swarms.At the core of Vatn's R&D efforts is advanced navigation software that is effective in GPS, vision, and comms compromised environments while reducing hardware costs. | $60M / Series A / Dec 10, 2025 | |
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Vatn Systems
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Vatn Systems builds affordable autonomous underwater vehicles that act in cooperative swarms.At the core of Vatn's R&D efforts is advanced navigation software that is effective in GPS, vision, and comms compromised environments while reducing hardware costs. | $60M / Series A / Dec 10, 2025 | |
Tidal Cyber
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Tidal Cyber is a cybersecurity company that provides a threat-led defense platform. The platform maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to measure the effectiveness of a security stack. The service helps teams prioritize defenses and reduce security risks by analyzing real-world threat behavior. | $10M / Series A / Sep 03, 2025 | |
Asylon
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Asylon manufactures and distributes a range of field deployable infrastructure to its clients.The company manufactures DroneHome, a field-deployable battery swap station. It offers data linking, coverage, mesh networking, and mixed fleet support.Asylon was founded in 2015 by Adam Mohamed, Damon Henry, and Brent McLaughlin and is based inPennsylvania. | $24M / Series B / Jul 22, 2025 | |
Hidden Level
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Hidden Level provides cutting-edge technologies for passive radar and drone detection, specializing in RF spectrum signal analysis. Their technology focuses on passive radar systems designed for drone detection and airspace monitoring, serving sectors such as critical infrastructure, defense, and public safety. Hidden Level's AirspaceMonitoring Service (AMS) utilizes networks of passive sensors to detect and track various aerial vehicles, including drones, over large geographic areas. This service is designed to be compliant with Title 18 regulations, ensuring adherence to privacy laws. | $65M / Series C / Feb 03, 2025 | |
Turion Space
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Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite. | $20M / Series A / Dec 02, 2024 | |
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Agile Space Industries
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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. | Convertible Note / Sep 26, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
Lockheed Martin Ventures
6 deals together
Alumni Ventures
2 deals together
BOKA Group
2 deals together
Booz Allen Ventures
2 deals together
Dauntless Ventures.
2 deals together
Decisive Point
2 deals together
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What does Veteran Ventures Capital invest in?
Veteran Ventures Capital invests primarily in Aerospace, Manufacturing and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Veteran Ventures Capital includes Derren Burrell (President / Founder) and Joshua Weed (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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