Harpoon

Harpoon was founded to help bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. We are an early stage venture capital firm that invests in commercially focused startups with a dual-use application in federal markets. Our team brings an unparalleled combination of venture capital and government expertise, adding unique and differentiated value to our growing portfolio. Here’s why we’re different—we do more than simply provide capital and advice, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our founders to help them earn millions of dollars in revenue at the critical early stages of their business. We are backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

William Allen

Co-Founder and General Partner

Austin Hays

Partner

Larsen Jensen

Co-Founder and General Partner

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Alexa Monti

Partner

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Chris O'Connor

Partner and COO

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Jeff Torrance

Partner and CFO

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Jimmy Yun

Partner

32 past transactions

CyCognito

Series B in 2020
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Truera, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Truera provides a Model Intelligence platform for enterprises to analyze machine learning, improve model quality, and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, the platform helps eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. The platform is already deployed at and delivering value to a number of early Fortune 100 customers in banking and insurance.

Astranis Space Technologies Corp.

Venture Round in 2019
Astranis is a developer of a new satellite technology that aims to transmit data down to specific terrestrial locations with each satellite it launches. The company's mission is to help get online the 4 billion people who are without internet access.

Volans-i

Series B in 2020
Volansi is a developer of logistics solutions with autonomous aerial delivery to facilitate time-critical shipments over long ranges. The company builds and operates long-range, high-payload unmanned aerial systems for various applications, such as the delivery of spare parts and medical supplies. Its drones offer delivery on fixed routes for customers who have a particular pain point around time and costs that enable businesses to deliver goods in less time possible. Volansi was co-founded by Hannan Parvizian and Wesley Zheng in 2015 and it is headquartered in Concord, California.
Astranis is a developer of a new satellite technology that aims to transmit data down to specific terrestrial locations with each satellite it launches. The company's mission is to help get online the 4 billion people who are without internet access.
RoboCorp Oy develops and delivers a cloud-based platform for open source robotic process automation. The company is based in Helsinki, Finland with an additional location in San Francisco, California. Robocorp Oy operates as a subsidiary of RoboCorp Technologies, Inc.

Merlin Labs

Series A in 2021
Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods, and eventually people, to fly without pilots.

Robust Intelligence, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Robust Intelligence is a provider of an AI security and reliability platform that secures the deployment of artificial intelligence. The platform frees up machine learning engineers and data scientists from dealing with security and reliability and allows them to focus on core AI development. Alexander Rilee, Eric Balkanski, Kojin Oshiba, and Yaron Singer established the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.

deepset

Series A in 2022
We are building the next enterprise search engine fueled by NLP and open-source. Building on top of latest NLP research we leverage question answering & transfer learning to provide granular, semantic search results tailored to different domains.

Cyabra

Series A in 2021
Cyabra Strategy Ltd. designs and develops an online platform to protect brands and politicians against misleading discourse on social networks distributed through the use of false identities. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Cord

Series A in 2021
Cord is building a data programming interface to label and manage your training data for AI applications.

LeapYear Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
LeapYear develops technology for enterprises to securely unlock value from their most sensitive data assets. LeapYear’s platform implements differential privacy, a mathematically proven standard that enables data to be leveraged for machine learning, while ensuring that no data can be exposed or exploited. LeapYear has partnered with the largest companies across financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine, analyze, and monetize previously restricted and siloed sources of information.

r2c

Series A in 2020
r2c operates as a software security startup. r2c make modern static analysis tools built for CI/CD.

Aril Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Aril specializes in providing embedded processor solutions. it offers Optimized RISC-V Processor technology for performance, power, area, security, and safety in embedded computing SOCs and domain-specific architectures.

Confluera

Series A in 2019
Confluera, Inc. develops an autonomous detection and response platform to detect and stop attackers navigating infrastructure. It offers Confluera that delivers autonomous infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging continuous attack graph to stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time. The company’s Confluera connects malicious activities progressing through the attack lifecycle to pinpoint the attacker; eliminates manual triages and inconclusive correlations by building the complete context; and intercepts and surgically removes the attacker’s footprint. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Merlin Labs

Series B in 2021
Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods, and eventually people, to fly without pilots.

RoboCorp Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
RoboCorp Oy develops and delivers a cloud-based platform for open source robotic process automation. The company is based in Helsinki, Finland with an additional location in San Francisco, California. Robocorp Oy operates as a subsidiary of RoboCorp Technologies, Inc.

CyCognito

Series C in 2021
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Robust Intelligence, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Robust Intelligence is a provider of an AI security and reliability platform that secures the deployment of artificial intelligence. The platform frees up machine learning engineers and data scientists from dealing with security and reliability and allows them to focus on core AI development. Alexander Rilee, Eric Balkanski, Kojin Oshiba, and Yaron Singer established the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.

Netography

Series A in 2021
Netography, Inc. provides cloud based network security for organizations. Netography, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Astranis is a developer of a new satellite technology that aims to transmit data down to specific terrestrial locations with each satellite it launches. The company's mission is to help get online the 4 billion people who are without internet access.

Shift

Venture Round in 2019
Shift is on a mission to build pathways out of the service that didn’t previously exist. Immersive programs help us build data models that predict great matches and recommend relevant opportunities. Our fellows program places transitioning military members in technology internships during their final months of active duty service. Programs range from 3 to 6 months in length and approved applicants work in Silicon Valley while maintaining full military pay and benefits. At the end of the internship, participants will be prepared to accept full-time offers.

n8n GmbH

Series A in 2021
n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and used with third party web applications or custom in-house tools to automate repetitive tasks. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your own internal tools to create easy to use automations that snap together all the pieces of what would otherwise be very complex, disconnected systems. n8n is headquartered in Berlin and was founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019.

Toucan

Seed Round in 2021
Toucan develops a Google chrome extension for learning new languages and communicating with others. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Genesis Therapeutics Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction. The company was founded in 2019 and based in South San Francisco, California.

Merlin Labs

Series A in 2020
Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods, and eventually people, to fly without pilots.

Infiot

Series A in 2020
Infiot Inc. develops and operates a cloud delivered architecture platform for Internet of things (IOT) industry. Its platform is used for data collection, delivery, and storage needed for commercial IoT services. The company remote users, IoT, branch/micro branch, education, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and financial services. Infiot Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California with an additional office in Chennai, India.

Confluera

Series B in 2020
Confluera, Inc. develops an autonomous detection and response platform to detect and stop attackers navigating infrastructure. It offers Confluera that delivers autonomous infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging continuous attack graph to stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time. The company’s Confluera connects malicious activities progressing through the attack lifecycle to pinpoint the attacker; eliminates manual triages and inconclusive correlations by building the complete context; and intercepts and surgically removes the attacker’s footprint. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Golden

Series A in 2020
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler. It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top of changes, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.

Truera, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Truera provides a Model Intelligence platform for enterprises to analyze machine learning, improve model quality, and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, the platform helps eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. The platform is already deployed at and delivering value to a number of early Fortune 100 customers in banking and insurance.

Netography

Venture Round in 2020
Netography, Inc. provides cloud based network security for organizations. Netography, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.