Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has invested in Hidden Level as both companies look to address airspace security and surveillance challenges through the use of distributed sensor networks.
Read More »Lockheed Invests in Fiddler for AI Portfolio Expansion; Chris Moran Quoted
Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has invested in artificial intelligence company Fiddler for an undisclosed amount in a push to scale the latter’s technology in the aerospace and defense sectors, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.
Read More »Lockheed Invests in Cyber Firm RunSafe Security Through Second Series A Funding Round
RunSafe Security has raised $3.5M in a new round of Series A financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm and NextGen Venture Partners.
Read More »Lockheed Invests in In-Package Optical Interconnect Developer Ayar Labs
Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Ayar Labs to help the latter advance the commercialization of its monolithic in-package optical input/output platform.
Read More »Lockheed Donation to Support ‘Hacking for Defense’ National Security Course
Lockheed Martin has donated money to BMNT's nonprofit arm, The Common Mission Project, to support a university course designed to equip students with cyber skills to address national security threats.
Read More »DUST Identity Announces Series A Funding Round to Back Supply Chain Security Tech Development
Supply chain security technology developer DUST Identity has raised $10M in Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and supported by Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, Airbus Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, New Science Ventures and Angular Ventures.
Read More »Lockheed’s $460M Tax Reform Savings to Support R&D, Employee Training Programs
Lockheed Martin has announced plans to funnel approximately $460 million in tax reform law-related savings into several investment initiatives. The company said Thursday about $200 million of that savings will go to research-and-development programs and capital expenditures this year in addition to $100 million in funds that will be invested …
Read More »Chris Moran: Lockheed to Put $100M Into Venture Fund to Back Tech Startups
Lockheed Martin plans to move $100 million in funds saved through the tax reform law into its venture capital arm that invests in startups involved in the development of emerging technologies, Defense News reported Wednesday. “We’d love to go from — generically — about four investments per year, we’d love …
Read More »Mythic Raises $40M in Lockheed-Backed Funding Round for AI Chip Tech
Artificial intelligence chip developer Mythic has obtained $40 million in series B financing round led by SoftBank Ventures and backed by Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, Data Collective, Lux Capital, DFJ, AME Cloud Ventures and Andy Bechtolsheim. Mythic said Wednesday it will use the investment to further develop a compute-in-memory …
Read More »Report: Lockheed Invests in Startups to Back Nanosatellite, Cyber Devt for Defense Applications
Lockheed Martin has made approximately $100 million in investments in 22 commercial technology startups since the defense contractor established its venture capital arm in 2007, CNBC reported Thursday. Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested this year in early-stage start-ups that work on technologies in the areas of cybersecurity, autonomous technology and …
Read More »Lockheed Seeks Unmanned Maritime Opportunities Through Ocean Aero Investment
Lockheed Martin‘s venture capital arm has invested in Ocean Aero as both companies aim to seek opportunities to expand their autonomous maritime capabilities. The strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures seeks to help the firms continue to demonstrate their capability to configure teams of autonomous platforms for complex missions, Lockheed said …
Read More »Lockheed Invests in Nanosatellite Company Terran Orbital
Lockheed Martin‘s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Terran Orbital as both companies aim to advance development of nanosatellite technology. Lockheed said Thursday it will obtain an equity stake in Irvine, California-based Terran as part of the cash and in-kind investment deal. The two companies previously worked to support …
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