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Forward Deployed Venture Capital
mission critical venture capital
About Forward Deployed Venture Capital
Early-stage venture firm focused on mission-critical sectors and tech including defense, energy, industrials, and artificial intelligence. We are backed by Bain Capital Ventures and a motley crew of 100+ operators from Palantir and Anduril: hackers, designers, spies, machine learning specialists, classification experts, government contracting officers, nuclear engineers, and top leadership.
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11 published signals
Capital & Finance
Forward Deployed Venture Capital made 1 new investment this month.
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Capital & Finance
Forward Deployed Venture Capital awarded Andrenam on the DoW’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital named Fortastra to Via Satellite’s 10 Smallsat Startups to Watch for 2026.
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Capital & Finance
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that Castelion announced a $1B Series C at a $13B valuation.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that Turion Space's DROID.002 satellite evaded a simulated adversary spacecraft during SALITRE 2026.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that Oklo Inc completed first criticality at its Groves Isotope Test Reactor built in less than a year and was selected as one of twelve developers for the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Nuclear Energy Launch Pad Initiative.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that Endurance Energy shared progress photos of their 100kW generator Adélie that is midway through construction.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that ConductorAI was awarded a contract with the US Army Cyber Command to advance its data-centric operations mission.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that Chariot Defense was awarded a $7M contract to deliver power systems to Army brigades under the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module program.
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Technology & Infrastructure
Forward Deployed Venture Capital noted that Anduril Industries reached orbit with their satellite ANDURIL-216 in less than two years using Lattice software.
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Capital & Finance
Forward Deployed Venture Capital congratulated Method Security on securing a $30M STRATFI award through SpaceWERX.
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