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FDVC
Venture capital
FDVC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups rebuilding critical industries such as defense, energy, and manufacturing. It was founded in 2022 by Mark Scianna, a former Palantir forward deployed engineer, and draws on Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineering culture.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdefenseenergymanufacturingcritical infrastructuredeep techfounder networks
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Or find every investor that fitsFDVC lists 54 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (46%), Industrial & Manufacturing (11%) and Healthcare & Biotech (9%). 95% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Counts come from funding rounds that name FDVC, 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 FDVC's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 54. 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 | 50% |
| Seed | 50% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 54 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 80th | 46% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 46% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Consumer | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 11 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 9 |
| General Catalyst | 6 |
| Pax | 6 |
| Forward Venture Capital | 5 |
| Soma Capital | 5 |
| Valor Siren Ventures | 5 |
| Wave Function Ventures | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers54100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare FDVC 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 FDVC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed |
Round details for FDVC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in FDVC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
54 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company is building autonomous surgical robots | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| AmpUp makes EV charging easy for fleets, workplaces, multifamily communities, and public sites. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AndrenaM builds networks of intelligent acoustic buoys that detect, track, and classify underwater objects and marine life. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Anduril Industries specializes in advanced autonomous systems for defense and commercial mission sets. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Arda creates a single source of truth for manufacturing, enabling a new level of production agility. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Armory is building the execution layer for American healthcare, infrastructure that absorbs the entirety of work that stands between patients and care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Athena.AI develops and provides an AI platform for enterprise search, operations, and analytics. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Barnwell Bio analyzes environmental samples to uncover insights into animal health and behavior. | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Biobot Analytics transforms wastewater data into predictive intelligence to help track human health trends and spot emerging trends earlier | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cape provides private cell phone service with a focus on security and minimal data collection | ConsumerCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Castelion designs, tests, and manufactures next-generation military systems rapidly and at massive scale to deter future wars. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides modular power systems for military and operational use. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ConductorAI accelerates complex approvals, investigations, e-discovery, and compliance reviews by distilling complex policies and expertise into decision trees to review and approve documents quickly. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Darkgrade develops an AI-powered platform that helps creative professionals automate camera control and video editing processes. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Edgescale AI sells an integrated hardware and software appliance that runs AI models on-site at industrial and physical operations such as factories, utilities, and energy sites. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Electio is an energy transformation company building the optimization layer for the AI era, a vertically integrated platform that combines model-driven system design with owned physical assets from natural gas to data center compute. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Endurance Energy is a company that has a contact page and a careers section, but its specific activities are not described on the page. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fortastra builds spacecraft to defend the infrastructure that sits in space. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Galadyne is a defense company that redefines missile architecture with scalable liquid propulsion and full-stack integration. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- fdvc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 30 Sept 2026
- Companies checked
- 54
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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