Lockheed Martin Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Bethesda, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

46

Rounds per year

4.06

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsAerospaceManufacturingComputerHardwareSemiconductor

Summary

In 2016 was created Lockheed Martin Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Lockheed Martin Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Bethesda.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Lockheed Martin Ventures, startups are often financed by Threshold, Lux Capital, Data Collective DCVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Threshold, Softbank Ventures Asia, Presidio Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Valor Equity Partners, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Threshold.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Humatics, Mythic, Edge Case Research Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Embedded Software, Semiconductor. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this Lockheed Martin Ventures performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataManufacturingRoboticsCybersecurityBiotech/Life Sciences Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
14
Exits
1
Rounds per year
4.06
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Aerospace (15)
  • Software (14)
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Robotics (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (63)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Australia (2)
  • Canada (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
60M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Launchpad.build 15 Nov 2023 Manufacturing Seed United States, California, Los Angeles
Slingshot Aerospace 06 Dec 2022 Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Aerospace, Geospatial Early Stage Venture 40M United States, Texas, Austin
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