US Innovative Technology

Founded in 2022, US Innovative Technology is a venture capital firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies focused on commercial and defense applications, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, logistics, space tech, biotech, and future computing.

Liz Stein

Managing Director

Elizabeth Stein

Managing Director

21 past transactions

Ditto

Series B in 2025
Ditto Technologies, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Oakland, California, specializes in two distinct yet complementary business areas. Primarily, it offers an innovative eyewear recommendation and virtual try-on technology platform for retailers, brands, and eye care professionals worldwide. This platform uses advanced facial mapping and machine learning algorithms to provide personalized, accurate, and vivid recommendations for eyewear, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, Ditto develops resilient edge device connectivity solutions, including an edge-native, mobile database that facilitates real-time data synchronization among devices through peer-to-peer and mesh networking, even in challenging network conditions. This technology caters to diverse industries such as point-of-sale systems, aviation, and industrial operations, aiming to improve operational efficiency and reliability.

Shield AI

Series F in 2025
Shield AI Inc is an artificial intelligence robotics company based in San Diego, California, focused on developing advanced AI-powered systems for national security and first responders. Incorporated in 2015, the company specializes in creating technologies that enhance the safety of military personnel and civilians. Its flagship products include Nova, an autonomous quadcopter drone equipped with lidar technology that operates effectively in GPS-denied environments, and Hivemind, an AI framework that allows various unmanned vehicles to learn from real and synthetic experiences, enabling autonomous operations without direct human control. Additionally, Shield AI has developed the V-BAT, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can navigate contested environments and has been utilized in regions like the Black Sea and the Middle East. The company aims to transform defense operations by leveraging cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies to execute complex tasks in dynamic and denied environments.

Lambda

Series D in 2025
Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

SandboxAQ

Series E in 2024
SandboxAQ specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence and quantum technology products. The company integrates expertise from diverse fields to create Large Quantitative Models and AI sensing applications, focusing on practical solutions for industries such as financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Altana Technologies

Series C in 2024
Altana Technologies is a company that specializes in transforming both public and non-public data into an intelligent, interconnected map of the global supply chain. By utilizing its platform, Altana Atlas, the company enables enterprises, governments, and logistics providers to connect and collaborate, fostering trust and transparency across business networks. The platform offers comprehensive trade data management services by integrating internal and external data, providing clean data sets, and delivering real-time insights related to transactions, ownership, movements, and risks in the global trade network. Through advanced machine learning techniques, Altana Technologies equips organizations across various sectors with the tools to enhance the safety, efficiency, and profitability of trade, contributing to a more resilient, secure, and sustainable approach to globalization.

Halo Industries

Series B in 2024
Halo Industries, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, focused on enhancing the energy output of solar thermal systems through innovative solutions. Established in 2014, it specializes in developing laser-based hardware systems that facilitate materials processing across various industries, including solar, semiconductors, LEDs, batteries, and power electronics. The company's automated production line tools aim to reduce costs while improving operational efficiency and product quality, supporting the advancement of next-generation technologies in these sectors.

Celestial AI

Series C in 2024
Celestial AI is a prominent artificial intelligence company that provides an advanced platform for users to efficiently create images, text, and presentations. Utilizing cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and natural language processing, the platform produces high-quality visual and textual content. Its intuitive design, combined with innovative features, facilitates easy content creation. Moreover, Celestial AI emphasizes intelligent data integration and prioritizes security, ensuring that users achieve impressive and reliable results.

Lambda

Series C in 2024
Lambda specializes in deep-learning infrastructure, offering cloud technology, servers, and workstations pre-configured with common ML frameworks. This enables clients to simplify and accelerate the training and deployment of deep learning models, empowering AI engineers to construct, test, and deploy AI products efficiently and securely.

Gecko Robotics

Series C in 2023
Founded in 2013, Gecko Robotics specializes in industrial inspection services using robotics and AI-powered data platforms. Serving power, oil & gas, pulp & paper industries, they provide real-time insights for efficient operations and infrastructure maintenance.

Shield AI

Series F in 2023
Shield AI Inc is an artificial intelligence robotics company based in San Diego, California, focused on developing advanced AI-powered systems for national security and first responders. Incorporated in 2015, the company specializes in creating technologies that enhance the safety of military personnel and civilians. Its flagship products include Nova, an autonomous quadcopter drone equipped with lidar technology that operates effectively in GPS-denied environments, and Hivemind, an AI framework that allows various unmanned vehicles to learn from real and synthetic experiences, enabling autonomous operations without direct human control. Additionally, Shield AI has developed the V-BAT, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can navigate contested environments and has been utilized in regions like the Black Sea and the Middle East. The company aims to transform defense operations by leveraging cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies to execute complex tasks in dynamic and denied environments.

Saronic Technologies

Series A in 2023
Saronic Technologies specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). These vehicles are equipped with cutting-edge hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, creating a scalable and integrated platform for enhancing maritime security and domain awareness. Tailored for defense and surveillance applications, Saronic's products offer comprehensive operational capabilities to naval and maritime forces.

Pryon

Series B in 2023
Pryon is an artificial intelligence company specializing in enterprise knowledge management. Founded by Igor Jablokov in 2017, the company develops a natural language processing platform that transforms unstructured data into productive experiences, increasing efficiency with high accuracy and speed.

Primer

Series D in 2023
Primer Technologies, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing software that leverages machine learning and natural language processing to analyze vast amounts of textual data across multiple languages. Its platform automates the parsing and collation of documents, uncovering insights and generating reports comparable to those produced by human analysts. This enables governments and corporations to better understand and monitor global information, facilitating informed decision-making.

Ditto

Series A in 2023
Ditto Technologies, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Oakland, California, specializes in two distinct yet complementary business areas. Primarily, it offers an innovative eyewear recommendation and virtual try-on technology platform for retailers, brands, and eye care professionals worldwide. This platform uses advanced facial mapping and machine learning algorithms to provide personalized, accurate, and vivid recommendations for eyewear, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, Ditto develops resilient edge device connectivity solutions, including an edge-native, mobile database that facilitates real-time data synchronization among devices through peer-to-peer and mesh networking, even in challenging network conditions. This technology caters to diverse industries such as point-of-sale systems, aviation, and industrial operations, aiming to improve operational efficiency and reliability.

Saronic Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Saronic Technologies specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). These vehicles are equipped with cutting-edge hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, creating a scalable and integrated platform for enhancing maritime security and domain awareness. Tailored for defense and surveillance applications, Saronic's products offer comprehensive operational capabilities to naval and maritime forces.

Colossal Biosciences

Series B in 2023
Colossal Biosciences is a bioscience and genetic engineering company focused on restoring extinct species and protecting endangered ones. Leveraging gene editing technologies, including CRISPR, it pursues de-extinction initiatives such as reviving the woolly mammoth and aims to aid ecosystem restoration and biodiversity. The company develops technologies to revive species and repopulate ecosystems critical to environmental health and future human needs.

Capella Space

Venture Round in 2023
Capella Space is an information services company based in San Francisco that operates a constellation of small satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar, delivering on-demand, high-resolution radar imagery of the Earth's surface. The SAR imagery can be acquired through clouds, smoke, fog, and darkness, enabling continuous global monitoring and rapid insight across industries. Capella's services support infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, disaster response, maritime domain awareness, city planning and mapping, and business intelligence, helping customers detect sub-meter surface changes, track economic activity, and monitor environmental and security-related conditions. Founded in 2016, Capella Space provides timely earth observation for commerce, conservation, and safety.

Shield AI

Series E in 2022
Shield AI Inc is an artificial intelligence robotics company based in San Diego, California, focused on developing advanced AI-powered systems for national security and first responders. Incorporated in 2015, the company specializes in creating technologies that enhance the safety of military personnel and civilians. Its flagship products include Nova, an autonomous quadcopter drone equipped with lidar technology that operates effectively in GPS-denied environments, and Hivemind, an AI framework that allows various unmanned vehicles to learn from real and synthetic experiences, enabling autonomous operations without direct human control. Additionally, Shield AI has developed the V-BAT, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can navigate contested environments and has been utilized in regions like the Black Sea and the Middle East. The company aims to transform defense operations by leveraging cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies to execute complex tasks in dynamic and denied environments.

Pryon

Venture Round in 2022
Pryon is an artificial intelligence company specializing in enterprise knowledge management. Founded by Igor Jablokov in 2017, the company develops a natural language processing platform that transforms unstructured data into productive experiences, increasing efficiency with high accuracy and speed.

Atlantic Quantum

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2022, Atlantic Quantum specializes in developing scalable quantum computers to address complex computational challenges. The company focuses on creating fault-tolerant quantum hardware as a key step towards advancing quantum computing.

Anduril Industries

Series E in 2022
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that designs, develops, and deploys hardware and software to address national security challenges for the United States and its allies. It offers the Lattice Platform, an AI-based system that fuses real-time data from computer vision, machine learning, and mesh networking into a single autonomous operating picture; Sentry Tower, which integrates data across the electromagnetic spectrum; Ghost sUAS, an unmanned autonomous, man-portable drone capable of performing missions with limited human intervention; and Anvil sUAS, a precision kinetic intercept that autonomously navigates to counter potential drone threats with visual verification by a human operator. Founded in 2017, Anduril is based in Irvine, California, with additional offices in Orange County, California; Washington, D.C.; and Seattle, Washington.
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