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Shield Capital
San Francisco, United States
Shield Capital invests in early‑stage companies developing frontier technologies—artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity and space—that serve both commercial markets and U.S. national‑security customers. The fir...
Portfolio
37+
Employees
15+
Founded
N/A
AUM
≈ $311.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceAutonomous VehiclesCybersecurityAerospace
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Shield Capital Fund I, LP
Vintage 2023 • $186.0M
Shield Capital National Security Venture Capital Fund
Vintage 2022 • $125.0M
Sources
Shield Capital
Shield Capital invests in early‑stage companies developing frontier technologies—artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity and space—that serve both commercial markets and U.S. national‑security customers. The firm partners with veteran founders and leverages its deep defense and industry network to help scale innovations that address the convergence of commercial tech and government needs.
Portfolio
37+
Employees
15+
Founded
N/A
AUM
≈ $311.0M
Funds
Shield Capital Fund I, LP · Vintage 2023 • $186.0M
Shield Capital National Security Venture Capital Fund · Vintage 2022 • $125.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceAutonomous VehiclesCybersecurityAerospace
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
Showing 24 of 35 matched portfolio companies
Provides an AI-powered platform that integrates machine learning, data fusion, and 4D simulation to create predictive operating pictures for airlines, air traffic management, and defense. The system improves decision-making by offering real-time insights, optimizing flight trajectories, and enabling secure, enterprise-wide communication, addressing inefficiencies in complex air operations.
Funding: $56.0M
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Funding: $56.0M
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Albedo builds satellites that capture ultra-high resolution 10 cm visible imagery and 2 m thermal imagery, enabling organizations to monitor infrastructure, natural resources, and ecosystems from space. This technology provides timely, detailed insights for decision-making, addressing the need for accurate and actionable data in various sectors.
Funding: $93.0M
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Funding: $93.0M
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Apex manufactures satellite buses that serve as flexible platforms for payloads, utilizing vertical integration and specialized manufacturing processes to meet diverse mission requirements. The company addresses the growing demand for commercial spacecraft by providing scalable solutions that support various applications, including earth observation and communications.
Funding: $122.0M
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CRVXYZ Venture Capital
CRVXYZ Venture Capital
Funding: $122.0M
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Arena develops AI-native products that enable businesses to automate high-frequency decision-making processes, enhancing operational efficiency across various industries. By embedding engineers and machine learning scientists within client teams, Arena delivers measurable improvements in field sales and industrial engineering within months.
100+
7K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $30.0M
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Goldcrest CapitalInitialized Capital
Goldcrest CapitalInitialized Capital
Funding: $30.0M
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Armada provides an edge computing platform that integrates connectivity, ruggedized mobile data centers, and real-world AI applications to enable real-time data processing in remote environments. This technology addresses challenges in industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, and logistics by enhancing safety, automating operations, and improving decision-making capabilities.
Funding: $95.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $95.0M
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Authentic8 provides a cloud‑native web isolation platform that executes all web content in a sandbox, separating the user’s device, network, and data from untrusted sites. The solution offers granular policy controls, immutable audit logs, and APIs for embedding secure browsing into applications, supporting zero‑trust access for BYOD and remote workforces.
Funding: $12.0M
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Vistara Growth
Vistara Growth
Funding: $12.0M
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The startup offers an AI-powered automated development platform that translates high-level code into deployable software, streamlining the software development process. Its code chat platform enhances developer productivity by providing context-aware coding suggestions and answering technical questions, enabling faster application development and deployment.
Funding: $16.5M
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Shield Capital
Shield Capital
Funding: $16.5M
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Danti provides a multi-source data synthesis platform that allows users to ask natural language questions and receive contextual answers instantly. The system integrates diverse data streams, including imagery, news, and proprietary datasets, using machine learning for intelligent querying. This capability empowers defense, insurtech, and infrastructure sectors to access and analyze complex information without specialized geospatial expertise.
Funding: $7.8M
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Shield Capital
Shield Capital
Funding: $7.8M
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Dedrone provides an AI-driven airspace security platform that utilizes machine learning algorithms and a variety of sensors to detect, track, and identify unauthorized drones. This technology protects organizations from potential threats posed by malicious drones, ensuring the safety of people and property in sensitive airspace.
Funding: $30.0M
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Axon
Axon
Funding: $30.0M
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Distributed Spectrum develops low size, weight, and power-cost (SWaP-C) sensors that provide real-time monitoring and visualization of radio frequency (RF) environments. Their technology enables users to detect and classify RF signals, enhancing situational awareness for defense applications and facilitating actionable alerts without requiring technical expertise.
Conviction PartnersShield Capital
Elroy Air builds autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) cargo aircraft for the middle‑mile segment of logistics. Their reusable, electric‑powered aircraft can transport payloads over several hundred kilometers, offering rapid, low‑emission aerial resupply that integrates with existing logistics networks for same‑day delivery to remote or infrastructure‑limited locations.
Funding: $6.6M
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Funding: $6.6M
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GoSecure provides 24/7 Managed Extended Detection & Response (MXDR) that continuously monitors network, endpoint, and cloud environments, using AI-driven analytics to detect threats and automatically contain incidents within minutes. Their Titan® platform combines real‑time analyst triage, integrated threat intelligence, and security consulting to improve cybersecurity maturity and reduce breach impact for mid‑size to large enterprises in regulated industries.
Funding: $5.9M
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Funding: $5.9M
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HawkEye 360 utilizes a commercial satellite constellation to map and analyze radio frequency signals across land, sea, and air, providing geospatial intelligence for national security and maritime domain awareness. Their technology enables clients to detect hidden activities and optimize spectrum usage, enhancing operational clarity for first responders, law enforcement, and telecommunications.
Funding: $370.8M
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Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank
Funding: $370.8M
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Howso provides the Understandable AI® platform, an information‑theoretic and probabilistic alternative to black‑box neural networks that delivers transparent, attribution‑driven predictions with a full audit trail to the influencing data. The platform combines predictive and prescriptive analytics, synthetic data generation for privacy, and built‑in causal discovery and anomaly detection, enabling enterprise teams to trust, monitor, and act on AI insights quickly and securely.
Funding: $25.0M
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+ 3 Other investorsShield Capital
+ 3 Other investorsShield Capital
Funding: $25.0M
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Knit.AI provides a platform that offers IT and Security teams complete visibility into product reliability and vendor support performance, transforming technical interactions into actionable intelligence. This solution addresses the lack of transparency in vendor relationships, enabling teams to make informed decisions and enhance operational efficiency.
Knostic provides an AI security platform designed to govern and protect enterprise users, data, and AI tools. The platform offers visibility into unsanctioned AI usage, controls data access for AI assistants, and defends applications against malicious prompts. It secures the entire AI ecosystem, including coding assistants, autonomous agents, and MCP servers, ensuring data governance and compliance.
Funding: $3.3M
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Funding: $3.3M
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Mimic's platform employs advanced detection technology specifically designed for early identification of ransomware attacks, coupled with real-time deflection mechanisms to protect critical enterprise assets. This approach enables rapid recovery of compromised data in a clean environment, addressing the escalating threat of cyber extortion faced by organizations today.
Funding: $27.0M
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Ballistic Ventures
Ballistic Ventures
Funding: $27.0M
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mPower Technology develops DragonSCALES™, an ultralight solar cell technology designed for high-volume production and rapid deployment in space applications. This technology provides a cost-effective and resilient power solution for satellite constellations and space logistics, addressing the need for reliable energy sources in harsh environments.
Funding: $10.0M
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Cottonwood Technology Fund
Cottonwood Technology Fund
Funding: $10.0M
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The startup offers a converged data platform that enables real-time inter-company data collaboration through a no-code and low-code interface for data integration, preparation, cataloging, and exchange. This platform provides organizations with reliable access to consistent data, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency across internal and external stakeholders.
Funding: $33.6M
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Shield Capital
Shield Capital
Funding: $33.6M
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Obviant synthesizes thousands of defense acquisition data sources into a unified platform for decision advantage. The platform delivers mission-ready intelligence, dashboards, and curated reports to accelerate program management and opportunity identification. This service enables defense stakeholders to transform complex information into actionable insights for strategic execution.
Omni Instrument develops advanced robotics solutions integrated with Edge AI for manufacturing environments. Their platform enables real-time decision-making directly on the hardware, optimizing production line efficiency and quality control. This integration allows for faster, more autonomous industrial automation processes.
3+
1K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $4.0M
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Funding: $4.0M
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Overwatch Imaging develops AI-driven imaging systems for piloted aircraft and drones that automate real-time object detection and data analysis, addressing the inefficiencies of human-operated imaging in vast environments. Their technology enables immediate delivery of actionable intelligence and high-resolution multispectral mapping, significantly enhancing operational effectiveness in time-critical missions.
Funding: $11.2M
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Shield CapitalSquadra Ventures
Shield CapitalSquadra Ventures
Funding: $11.2M
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Pillar offers a unified AI security platform that automatically discovers and inventories all AI assets—models, agents, servers, and developer tools—across an enterprise, mapping their permissions, data sources, and integrations to produce a continuous risk posture score. It validates defenses with multi‑turn red‑team simulations and enforces adaptive runtime guardrails that block unauthorized tool calls, data leaks, and policy violations, while providing governance dashboards, audit logs, and compliance reporting for security and compliance teams.
Funding: $9.0M
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+ 1 Other investorShield Capital
+ 1 Other investorShield Capital
Funding: $9.0M
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The startup provides cyber insurance tailored for middle-to-large market enterprises, utilizing risk quantification models to deliver precise assessments of vulnerabilities and threats. By offering real-time analysis and customized action plans, the company enables organizations to understand their risk exposure and enhance their cyber resilience.
Funding: $231.0M
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Intact Ventures
Intact Ventures
Funding: $231.0M
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