Active Seed Defense Investors (2026)

Raising capital in the Defense space requires finding partners who understand your specific market dynamics. The investors listed here are actively deploying capital and looking for high-growth opportunities with defensible competitive advantages. At the seed stage, investors expect to see early product-market fit, a live product, and initial signs of repeatable traction or revenue.

Sector: Defense Stage: Seed + Geography + Check size

Erik Bruckner

Defense · $10K–$250K

Bruckner Ventures targets early-stage founders disrupting enormous market opportunities in frontier technology capable of generating outsize...

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Aneel Ranadive

Defense · $100K–$2,000K

Soma Capital invests in technical founders building innovative companies across all sectors at the seed stage, with a focus on exceptional f...

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Grant Hosking

Defense

Align Ventures backs early-stage companies across AI, defense technology, and consumer brands that shape culture. The firm focuses on identi...

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Ricardo Schaefer

Defense

Zone II Ventures is an early-stage investor backing founders with endurance in fintech, insurtech, defense tech, and adjacent categories. Th...

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Thomas Hendrix

Defense · $500K–$1,000K

Thomas Hendrix invests in critical dual-use technologies for defense, energy, space, and infrastructure at early stages (seed through Series...

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