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Ambition Capital — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

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Ambition Capital is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in AI / ML. The firm has 40 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
40 companies on record
Partners
1 listed
AUM
$1B
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
AI / ML
Check size
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-11-06

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

AUM

$1.0B

Portfolio

40+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investment Thesis

Invests in exceptional founders building critical technology across energy, manufacturing, space, defense and beyond. The firm is especially oriented toward ambitious physical-world infrastructure and dual-use hardware.

How Ambition Capital invests

Ambition Capital is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML.

Ambition Capital manages approximately $1B in assets. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.

Ambition Capital has backed 40 companies in our records, including Array Labs, Advanced radar, Castelion.

Partners & Team

JL

Jonathan Lacoste

Founder & General Partner

defense
space
manufacturing
robotics
ai infrastructure

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML

Funds

Ambition Capital Fund II

$150M2021
actively investing

Ambition Capital Fund I

$100M2019
fully deployed

Recent Activity

Raised Ambition Capital Fund II ($150M)

2021 · fund records

Raised Ambition Capital Fund I ($100M)

2019 · fund records

Portfolio Companies (40)

Other

AR

Array Labs

Advanced radar technology

AD

Advanced radar

CA

Castelion

Mass-manufactured hypersonics

MA

Mass-Manufactured Hypersonics

DA

Danti

Geospatial software

GE

Geospatial Software

ED

Edgescale

AI

AI Edge Compute

GE

GenQ

Optical networking

OP

Optical Networking

How to pitch Ambition Capital
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jonathan Lacoste, Founder & General Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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