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Critical Frontier
Venture capital
Critical Frontier is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the techno-industrial era, where software-defined hardware meets the physical world. It backs founders building, powering, and securing critical infrastructure across energy, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingEducation
In its own wordsenergydefensespaceadvanced manufacturingmaterialshardware
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Or find every investor that fitsCritical Frontier lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (43%), Education (36%) and AI & Machine Learning (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Crosscut, Pax and Decisive Point.
No funding round on record names Critical Frontier yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 77th | 43% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 43% | 7% |
| Education | 36% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Critical Frontier head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its sitePortfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aalo Atomics builds mass-manufactured nuclear power plants designed to power data centers and other applications | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Arbor develops and supplies power systems, including next-generation turbines, to deliver clean and reliable energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aurelius Systems builds autonomous directed energy systems to stop drone threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing commercial fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting magnets and tokamak-based configurations. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Radiant develops and manufactures nuclear microreactors for commercial and government customers. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Resolute Grid manufactures power transformers | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Standard Nuclear converts uranium into advanced forms of nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- criticalfrontier.vc
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 7
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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