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    Lavrock Ventures

    Arlington, Virginia, United StatesFounded 2015

    Lavrock Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia, investing in frontier technologies for national security including space, quantum, deep tech, cybersecurity, and enterprise software. Founded in 2015, the firm follows demand signals from the defense and intelligence communities to back startups with real government demand.

    Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (6 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is series-a (45% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $54.1M (across 35 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    27

    Fund Size

    $125M

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    6

    Team

    DH

    Daniel Hanks

    Managing Partner

    SS

    Steve Smoot

    Managing Partner

    JH

    Jim Hunt

    General Partner

    AP

    Alex Poulin

    Partner

    George Hoyem

    George Hoyem

    Venture Partner

    JG

    Juliane Gallina

    Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    38 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Castelion logoCastelionSeries C$1BAug 2026
    Morpheus Space logoMorpheus SpaceSeries A$15MFeb 2026
    Morpheus Space logoMorpheus SpaceGrowth$15MFeb 2026
    Launchpad logoLaunchpadSeries A$11MOct 2025
    LLaunchpad Build AISeries A$11MOct 2025
    Aventra logoAventraSeed$3MOct 2025
    Castelion logoCastelionSeries B$350MJul 2025
    Urban Sky logoUrban SkySeries B$30MFeb 2025
    Castelion logoCastelionSeries A$70MJan 2025
    CesiumAstro logoCesiumAstroSeries B$65MJun 2024
    Maybell Quantum logoMaybell QuantumSeries A$25MMar 2024
    Atomic-6 logoAtomic-6Seed$5.0MJan 2024
    Fabri logoFabriSeed$5MJan 2024
    Urban Sky logoUrban SkySeries A$9.8MOct 2023
    Castelion logoCastelionSeed$14.2MOct 2023
    FFount ExSeries A—Mar 2023
    FFount GlobalUnknown$8MMar 2023
    Apkudo logoApkudoSeries C$37.5MFeb 2023
    FFount ExSeries A$8MJan 2023
    FFount GlobalSeries A$8MJan 2023
    Morpheus Space logoMorpheus SpaceSeries A$28MSep 2022
    Veritonic logoVeritonicSeries A$7.5MJun 2022
    Fount logoFountSeries C$33.4MOct 2021
    Dataships logoDatashipsSeed—Sep 2021
    Sayari logoSayariSeries C$40MSep 2021
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    Last updated: 20 October 2026