Investors / United States / Shield Capital
Shield Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Shield Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies in artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity, and space. Its team of founders, investors, and national security leaders supports entrepreneurs working at the convergence of commercial technology and national security.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordsartificial intelligenceautonomycybersecurityspacenational securitydefense
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Or find every investor that fitsShield Capital lists 48 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 17 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 54% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (59%), Cybersecurity (19%) and Enterprise Software (9%). 87% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside IQT, 137 Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Shield Capital, 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 Shield Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 13 companies; its own site lists 48. 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 | 23% |
| Series A | 54% |
| Series B | 23% |
| 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 | 5 | 0 |
| '26 | 11 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 82th | 47 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 59th | 23% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 21% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 88th | 59% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 59% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 19% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
| Education | 1% | 7% |
| Fintech | 1% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| IQT | 7 |
| 137 Ventures | 5 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| Founders Fund | 5 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 5 |
| Accel | 4 |
| Felicis | 4 |
| General Catalyst | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4696%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company24%
- 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 Shield Capital 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 Shield Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 12 May 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 5 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Shield Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Shield Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
48 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous Cyber provides a platform for cybersecurity using machine intelligence and AI | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Albedo develops and operates satellite systems in very low earth orbit for various applications including imaging, sensing, and communication. | 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 | ||
| Apex Space manufactures and delivers satellite platforms to customers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | |||
| Armada provides ruggedized modular data centers and edge computing hardware and software for deploying GPU infrastructure in remote and demanding environments. | Enterprise SoftwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2025Series B · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| The company is building interceptors to save lives. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Authentic8 provides a digital investigations platform for gathering and analyzing intelligence from various sources, including the web and social media. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| C3.AI turns operational data into real-time decision making and autonomous execution at scale. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides modular power systems for military and operational use. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Code Metal automates software engineering workflows, including code translation, verification, and optimization for various hardware platforms. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Nov 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Danti searches and understands massive amounts of data to provide decision-making information | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Dedrone provides counter-drone defense solutions and systems | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Distributed Spectrum provides RF expertise scaled by AI to analyze and understand signals | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Elroy Air is working to enable same-day shipping to every person on the planet. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ent provides a security platform that secures human, AI, and application activity in real time. | Cybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Portfolio page | |
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| Howso transforms how enterprises interact with data using its advanced engine that operates directly on source systems to deliver auditable and deterministic outputs for AI, machine learning, and business intelligence workflows. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Knit.ai helps companies know if they're getting what they paid for from their technology vendors | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- shieldcap.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Apr 2024
- Companies checked
- 48
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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