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8VC stages, portfolio and investment profile
Joe Lonsdale's Austin-based firm backing and building technology companies across defense, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and enterprise software.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Seed, Series A
Participates: Seed, Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
Not recorded
Geography
Austin, TX
Founded 2015
Fund size / AUM
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Portfolio in our directory
27
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
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Recent tracked investment
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No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list 8VC as an investor (24 total).
- Apex Space Productized satellite bus manufacturer (Aries, Nova, and Comet platforms).
- Bedrock Robotics Retrofit autonomy kit turning 20–80 ton excavators into supervised self-driving earthmovers on construction sites.
- BigHat Biosciences AI-guided antibody design platform (Milliner) for safer protein therapeutics.
- CX2 AI-driven electronic warfare systems for U.S. defense spectral dominance.
- Cartography Biosciences Oncology biotech building an antigen atlas for precise antibody immunotherapies.
- Cognition Autonomous AI software engineer Devin — agents that code, debug, and ship production software for enterprises.
- Covenant Defense startup that unveiled Anthem, a heavy-payload cruise missile, with $250M lifetime capital disclosed — not a dated September round; no valuation.
- Elegen Next-generation cell-free DNA synthesis for genetic medicine manufacturing.
- Filmhub Direct-to-streaming distribution marketplace for independent filmmakers.
- Gallatin AI AI-native military logistics software for readiness, supply and sustainment planning.
- Generalist AI Foundation models for robots — software brains that learn physical tasks from short video demonstrations.
- Glimpse AI platform automating retail deductions and revenue recovery for CPG brands.
- Hopscotch Primary Care Tech-enabled primary care clinics for rural communities in the Southeastern United States.
- Illumio Zero-trust microsegmentation platform for data-center and cloud breach containment.
- Lighter zk-rollup perpetual futures DEX with on-chain order matching.
- Luminary AI-native wealth-transfer platform that turns estate documents into structured data for advisors, trust companies, law firms, and accountants.
- Octant Bio Synthetic-biology platform mapping GPCR drug targets using engineered human cell reporters.
- Orchestra Bio Agentic R&D operations platform unifying scientific, financial, and operational planning for biotechs.
- Overland AI Seattle defense-tech company building off-road ground autonomy for U.S. military — OverDrive stack, SPARK upfits, and ULTRA vehicles.
- Pulley YC W20 cap-table software — company says it will cease operations after December 8, 2026; Carta is the named exclusive migration partner.
- Ramp AI-powered finance platform combining corporate cards, expense, bill pay, procurement, and accounting automation.
- Saronic Autonomous surface vessels for US Navy and maritime defense at production scale.
- Senra Systems Software-driven wire harness manufacturing for aerospace and defense.
- Standard Metrics AI-native portfolio reporting and data platform for venture capital and private equity firms.
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