FI

First In Ventures

VC
Washington, DCWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $2.0M

AUM

$55M

Portfolio

49+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Supports companies bringing transformational technologies to national defense and security sectors.

Meet the Team

AM

Anne Meree Craig

Community Lead / Senior Investment Professional

GF

Gabby Fong

Senior Associate

AK

Arthur Karell

Partner

defense and dual-use technologies
industrial automation
digital asset security
crypto
seed stage
A“

Aloysius “Ish” Boyle

Operating Partner

CT

Chris Tenant

Solo GP

Cybersecurity
AI/ML
Enterprise SaaS
RM

Renny McPherson

Managing Partner

enterprise security technology
seed stage
cybersecurity
defense
data intelligence

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Security
Healthcare
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (49)

Other

FO

Fortem Technologies

DefenseTech
AN

AnySignal

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

FR

FraudArmor

Fraud Prevention
AI

AI Secure Systems

Cybersecurity
CA

castlion

First In

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Security/defense technology

AD

adlumin

First In

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

*Acquired by N-able (NYSE: NABL)

AN

anduril

First In

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Defense technology company

AN

antithesis

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Infrastructure / software testing startup focused on deterministic simulation testing for complex systems.

SM

Smack

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

SC

SCATR

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

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