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Backswing Ventures
Venture capital
Backswing Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies in defense and national security. It manages a series of funds, with Fund I described as diversified early-stage investments and later funds focused on security, defense, and national security technologies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordsdefensenational securitydual-usecritical infrastructureearly-stage
Your fit with Backswing Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsBackswing Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (69%), Cybersecurity (19%) and Human Resources (3%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Capital Factory, Decisive Point and IQT.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Backswing Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Backswing Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 18. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 93th | 22% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 91th | 69% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Capital Factory | 4 |
| Decisive Point | 3 |
| IQT | 3 |
| The Veteran Fund | 3 |
| Beyond | 2 |
| Bravo Victor Venture Capital | 2 |
| Cubit Capital | 2 |
| Geodesic Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1794%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 69% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 19% | 4% |
| Human Resources | 3% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Backswing Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Backswing Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 13 Aug 2025 | Seed | |
| 21 Mar 2024 | Seed |
Round details for Backswing Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Backswing Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airia provides a platform for discovering, securing, governing, and optimizing AI agents in an enterprise environment. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| ClearForce is a people risk analytics firm that helps organizations detect and mitigate workforce risk. | CybersecurityHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Hex provides an analytics platform for humans and agents | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Isengard Industries designs and supplies AI-guided precision munitions and combat UAVs to countries, which can then build these weapons on their own soil. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Firestorm Labs manufactures and supplies critical platforms and components to warfighters at the point of need | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2024Seed | Page + round | |
| Locus Lock develops software-defined GNSS receivers for precise positioning in contested environments. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Lonestar builds and operates data centers in space, including on the Moon, to provide secure storage and processing of data | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Openi Analytics transforms public, proprietary, and commercially available data into strategic intelligence for governments, enterprises, and select institutional clients | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Orion Edge Group develops and provides operational systems and training emitters for electronic attack and protection | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Raven Defense provides telemetry services and satellite communications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Space Kinetic develops a new operating system for space called Whirlwind, which deploys micro-payloads from a host spacecraft | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| TerraKinesis develops and provides distributed computing software for various industries, including defense and automotive. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Vatn Systems designs and builds autonomous underwater systems and vehicles for defense applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Walaris delivers complete turnkey detection systems—cameras, compute, and AI—that integrate directly into new or existing sensor infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Former engineers and leaders from various companies are building autonomous, reusable defense systems for the United States and its allies. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ZeroEyes integrates with existing security cameras to detect potential threats, such as visible firearms and knives, in real time and dispatches human-verified alerts | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces components for small engines, including lubrication systems and fuel systems, in its advanced manufacturing facilities. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- backswingventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Mar 2024
- Companies checked
- 18
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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