Booz Allen Ventures

Founded in 2022, Booz Allen Ventures LLC is the corporate venture arm of McLean, VA-based Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen Ventures strategically invests in early-stage companies developing differentiated technologies with applications to federal mission sets. We invest across 4 technology themes: defense tech, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and deep tech.

Brian MacCarthy

Vice President, Tech Scouting and Ventures

13 past transactions

Hidden Level

Series C in 2025
Hidden Level specializes in advanced technologies for passive radar and drone detection, focusing on RF spectrum signal analysis. The company offers a comprehensive Airspace Monitoring Service (AMS) that employs networks of passive sensors to detect and track various aerial vehicles, including drones, across extensive geographical areas. This service is tailored for critical sectors such as infrastructure, defense, and public safety, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. In addition to drone detection, Hidden Level provides custom-built sensor technology, classical systems engineering, data modeling and analysis, field testing, printed circuit board design, and full product life cycle management. Their solutions aim to enhance safety and productivity in low-altitude air traffic monitoring for aerospace component manufacturers.

SeeQC

Series A in 2025
SeeQC, Inc. is a developer of digital quantum computing platforms aimed at global businesses, with a focus on creating commercially viable application-specific quantum computing systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Elmsford, New York, the company specializes in the design, testing, and manufacturing of quantum-ready superconductors. It integrates classical and quantum technologies to tackle common challenges in efficiency, stability, and cost associated with quantum computing. SeeQC's offerings include superconducting qubit chips and proprietary Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) technology, enabling high-performance classical co-processors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The company's approach combines digital readout and control technology with a unique chip-scale architecture to deliver scalable and cost-effective quantum computing solutions suitable for sectors such as machine learning, logistics optimization, quantum chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and fintech. Additionally, SeeQC operates facilities in London, United Kingdom, and Naples, Italy, enhancing its capacity to serve clients across the United States and Europe.

Starfish Space

Series A in 2024
Starfish Space Inc. specializes in providing on-demand in-space transportation and maintenance services for satellites. The company develops small space tugs equipped with proprietary Proximity Operations Software, which integrates orbital mechanics, machine vision artificial intelligence, and a low-thrust electric propulsion system. This innovative technology allows the tugs to conduct various satellite servicing missions, including life extension, relocation, disposal, and inspection. Founded in 2019 and based in Kent, Washington, Starfish Space aims to support satellite companies by enhancing their operational capabilities in orbit.

Reality Defender

Series A in 2024
Reality Defender specializes in detecting deepfakes and AI-generated media to address the risks posed by manipulated content. The company offers a platform that utilizes synthetic media detection algorithms to identify and assess the authenticity of various formats, including images, videos, audio, and text, in real time. This capability enables both enterprises and government entities to effectively combat the proliferation of false media. Reality Defender's patented multimodal approach ensures advanced impersonation detection and provides flexible deployment options, allowing seamless integration into existing digital infrastructures for proactive media management.

Hidden Level

Series B in 2024
Hidden Level specializes in advanced technologies for passive radar and drone detection, focusing on RF spectrum signal analysis. The company offers a comprehensive Airspace Monitoring Service (AMS) that employs networks of passive sensors to detect and track various aerial vehicles, including drones, across extensive geographical areas. This service is tailored for critical sectors such as infrastructure, defense, and public safety, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. In addition to drone detection, Hidden Level provides custom-built sensor technology, classical systems engineering, data modeling and analysis, field testing, printed circuit board design, and full product life cycle management. Their solutions aim to enhance safety and productivity in low-altitude air traffic monitoring for aerospace component manufacturers.

Quindar

Seed Round in 2024
Quindar offers a one-stop shop in the cloud for spacecraft analysis and operations.

Albedo

Series A in 2024
Albedo is an aerospace component manufacturing company focused on developing a constellation of low-flying satellites capable of capturing both visible and thermal imagery at high resolutions. This advanced technology enables the provision of quality aerial imagery that is accessible, affordable, and efficient for various commercial applications. The company's innovative approach addresses the challenges faced by industries such as environmental monitoring and precision agriculture, where high-resolution imagery has traditionally been limited in availability and cost. By making this imagery globally accessible, Albedo aims to enhance the capabilities of clients across multiple sectors.

Second Front

Venture Round in 2024
Second Front Systems, Inc. is a software development company based in Arlington, Virginia, that focuses on enhancing government access to venture capital-backed technologies for national security missions. Established in 2014, the company offers Atlas Fulcrum, a platform that helps users identify, assess, and utilize innovative commercial technologies. Additionally, Second Front provides program management and system integration services to facilitate the delivery of technology to military personnel. The High Technology Council, an enterprise consortium established by the company, brings together key industry players to leverage commercially developed technologies for government-funded national security efforts. Second Front also specializes in configuring, securing, and deploying compliant software applications for global government customers, ensuring that users have access to a fully managed production environment tailored for national security applications.

HiddenLayer

Series A in 2023
HiddenLayer specializes in cybersecurity solutions tailored for machine learning algorithms and models. The company provides a range of services, including threat modeling, machine learning risk assessment training, and red team assessments, as well as AI and ML model scanning. Their platform leverages machine learning to analyze interactions within models, allowing for the detection of malicious activity without needing access to the user's artificial intelligence model or sensitive training data. This enables businesses to effectively identify and defend against potential threats to their machine learning systems.

Shift5

Series B in 2023
Shift5, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2019 and based in Arlington, Virginia. The company specializes in developing hardware and software solutions to safeguard operational technology platforms, including aircraft, satellites, ground combat vehicles, and large-scale mining and construction equipment. Shift5's offerings include the Shift5 Intake, a data recorder that collects and transmits embedded data in real time to identify intrusions, and the Shift5 Engine, which employs both rule-based and model-based analytics to detect cyber threats within internal communication networks. Additionally, the company provides the Shift5 Gauge Cluster for data capturing and analytics, along with features for intrusion detection, secure code delivery verification, and fault reporting, aimed at protecting both government and commercial systems from cyber attacks.

Reveal Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Reveal Technology is a visual analytics and edge artificial intelligence (AI) company.

Synthetaic

Series A in 2022
Synthetaic LLC, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Delafield, Wisconsin, specializes in providing information technology services focused on AI training data. The company has developed a software solution called Rapid Automatic Image Categorization (RAIC), which addresses the challenge of data labeling in AI by automating the analysis of large, unstructured datasets. This technology allows customers to create AI solutions quickly, without the need for extensive human labeling or costly labeled datasets. Synthetaic's offerings are applicable across a range of industries, including geospatial, defense, security, science, technology, and conservation, enabling efficient and scalable detection and categorization of data.

Latent AI

Series A in 2021
Latent AI, Inc. is a technology company based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Skillman, New Jersey. Established in 2018, the company specializes in developing a platform that optimizes artificial intelligence for edge devices, facilitating smart Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Its primary offering, the Latent AI Efficient Inference Platform (LEIP), allows developers to train, quantize, and deploy edge AI neural networks efficiently. The platform supports adaptive AI, automating the exploration of low-bit-precision training to enable on-device intelligence and inference. By providing tools that streamline AI implementation and workflows, Latent AI empowers software developers to effectively access and manage AI capabilities on edge devices, promoting cost-effective solutions across various enterprise applications.
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