Champion Hill Ventures

Established in 2014, Champion Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It specializes in early-stage investments across various sectors, with a focus on defense and technology.

Josh Manchester

Founder and General Partner

16 past transactions

True Anomaly

Series C in 2025
True Anomaly develops space security and resilience solutions by integrating autonomous spacecraft operations, artificial intelligence, and mission-specific software. The company designs, builds, and fields technologies that enable secure and sustainable access to orbital environments for defense agencies, allied governments, and commercial operators. Its offerings improve orbital situational awareness, maintain operational continuity, and support long-term space sustainability across critical infrastructure and strategic missions.

Rainmaker Technology

Seed Round in 2024
Rainmaker employs cutting-edge technology to generate rain, replenish water sources, and address drought challenges sustainably and effectively.

Tranquility AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Tranquility AI leverage AI to deliver solutions to the most complex problems facing governments and enterprises around the world.

Zorp

Seed Round in 2024
Zorp is a blockchain development company that offers solutions to cyber risk through high-throughput chains and provides proof of computation and storage.

Keeper

Pre Seed Round in 2023
1 in 4 Keeper first dates lead to long-term relationships. 1 in 7 to marriage. Real human matchmakers, guided by AI and relationship psychology.

True Anomaly

Series B in 2023
True Anomaly develops space security and resilience solutions by integrating autonomous spacecraft operations, artificial intelligence, and mission-specific software. The company designs, builds, and fields technologies that enable secure and sustainable access to orbital environments for defense agencies, allied governments, and commercial operators. Its offerings improve orbital situational awareness, maintain operational continuity, and support long-term space sustainability across critical infrastructure and strategic missions.

Castelion

Seed Round in 2023
Castelion is a defense technology company that specializes in modernizing military systems. It applies advanced hardware development and manufacturing methods to address key national security challenges, focusing on affordability, scalability, and supply chain resilience. Castelion offers services like high-speed hypersonic testing, thermal protection systems, and avionics, designed to integrate with existing platforms and enhance military capabilities while mitigating these critical concerns.

Mach Industries

Seed Round in 2023
Mach Industries specializes in developing advanced technology solutions for defense systems. The company focuses on producing and combusting hydrogen from field-sourced materials, aiming to enhance global security and supply chain resiliency.

Castelion

Venture Round in 2023
Castelion is a defense technology company that specializes in modernizing military systems. It applies advanced hardware development and manufacturing methods to address key national security challenges, focusing on affordability, scalability, and supply chain resilience. Castelion offers services like high-speed hypersonic testing, thermal protection systems, and avionics, designed to integrate with existing platforms and enhance military capabilities while mitigating these critical concerns.

True Anomaly

Series A in 2023
True Anomaly develops space security and resilience solutions by integrating autonomous spacecraft operations, artificial intelligence, and mission-specific software. The company designs, builds, and fields technologies that enable secure and sustainable access to orbital environments for defense agencies, allied governments, and commercial operators. Its offerings improve orbital situational awareness, maintain operational continuity, and support long-term space sustainability across critical infrastructure and strategic missions.

Fount

Series A in 2023
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Umbra

Series B in 2022
Umbra is a space technology company specializing in advanced earth observation systems. It designs, manufactures, and operates satellites to collect high-resolution data, empowering government and commercial clients with consistent, actionable insights for informed decision-making across various applications such as land use monitoring, wildlife protection, and climate change mitigation.

Linear Labs

Series A in 2022
Linear Labs specializes in manufacturing innovative electric motors designed for various industries such as electric vehicles, robotics, wind turbines, and HVAC systems. Incorporated in 2012, the company is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Field Complete

Seed Round in 2021
Field Complete develops field service management software solutions. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company serves various industries including property maintenance, construction, and clean energy. Its SaaS-based platform offers tools for customer relationship management, scheduling, job management, invoicing, GPS tracking, and reporting.

BigOmics

Seed Round in 2021
BigOmics Analytics offers a cloud-based self-service data analytics platform for the healthcare industry.

Bifrost AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bifrost is a developer of a Generative 3D platform for creatives to create custom virtual worlds. It generates synthetic training data using three-dimensional graphics to simulate real-life scenarios. These datasets help teach AI systems to handle new tasks, environments, and challenges, while also validating their performance and reliability across thousands of automatically generated scenarios.
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