Harpoon Ventures
Harpoon Ventures is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in San Diego, CA investing in Other, AI / ML, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 18 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 18 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- AUM
- $300M
- Stage
- Seed, Series A
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML, Enterprise
- HQ
- San Diego, CA
Last verified: 2026-05-03
Seed, Series A
$500K – $2.0M
$300M
18+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Harpoon Ventures focuses on dual-use technologies that build scalable infrastructure for applications in defense, security, and enterprise.
How Harpoon Ventures invests
Harpoon Ventures is a vc firm based in San Diego, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer.
Harpoon Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $300M in assets under management.
Harpoon Ventures has backed 18 companies in our records, including Shield AI, Teleport, Solugen.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (18)
Other
Shield AI
Teleport
Solugen
Reimagining the chemicals industry
n8n
Secure and AI-native workflow automation
Astranis
Dedicated connectivity anywhere
Aalo Atomics
Clean energy future for everyone
MatX
High throughput chips for LLMs
Genesis Molecular
AI The AI Operating System for drug discovery
Firestorm Labs
Radically affordable, mission-adaptable UAS
Encord
Complete data development for AI
- •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jeff Torrance, CFO.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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