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Dauntless Ventures
Venture capital
Dauntless Ventures is an investment firm that backs founders building the next generation of America's defense and industrial base. It focuses on technologies it describes as vital to national and economic security and resilience.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdefensedual-usehard techaerospaceroboticscybersecurity
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Or find every investor that fitsDauntless Ventures lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (67%), Healthcare & Biotech (22%) and Cybersecurity (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Altitude Life Science Ventures, IQT and 645 Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Dauntless Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 91th | 67% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 20th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Altitude Life Science Ventures | 2 |
| IQT | 2 |
| 645 Ventures | 1 |
| ARK Venture Fund | 1 |
| Aldea Ventures | 1 |
| Alloy Fund | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Backswing Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 67% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 22% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Altitude Life Science Ventures
Compare Dauntless 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 Dauntless Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Dauntless Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Dauntless Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansa Biotechnologies synthesizes custom DNA sequences for its customers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Besxar manufactures advanced semiconductor substrates, epitaxial layers, and thin-films in space | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| LILA generates hypotheses, designs and runs experiments, and learns from new data in real time using advanced AI and autonomous labs | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Spektion develops and provides an endpoint vulnerability management platform to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities in a company's environment. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Vatn Systems designs and builds autonomous underwater systems and vehicles for defense applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- dauntless.vc
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 6
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