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Venture capitalNew York · Series A–Late Stage · 14 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Inflection Ventures invests in frontier technology companies across defense, artificial intelligence, nuclear power, and space sectors.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 14 people
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Founder and GP of Inflection Ventures; formerly Global VP Sales at Proofpoint (which grew from $20M to $1.4B ARR through its 2012 IPO and 2021 Thoma Bravo acquisition), with prior roles at Microsoft, ArcSight/HP, DoubleClick/Google, and Accenture. Over 15 years he has invested in or advised 100+ technology companies focused on cybersecurity, defense, infrastructure, and B2B SaaS.
Professional with a background in investment banking, private equity, and venture capital serving as a partner at Inflection Ventures focused on high-potential MENA startups. Previously an Investment Banking Associate at J.P. Morgan and an Associate at Gulf Capital; holds an economics degree from the Wharton School.
Professional with a background in investment banking, private equity, and venture capital serving as a partner at Inflection Ventures focused on high-potential MENA startups. Previously an Investment Banking Associate at J.P. Morgan and an Associate at Gulf Capital; holds an economics degree from the Wharton School.
Operating partner with two decades in cybersecurity and sales leadership. He was on the early sales team at CrowdStrike (ultimately VP of Sales, North America) ahead of its 2019 IPO, held a VP sales role at Proofpoint, and became CRO of Push Security in 2024.
Financial services professional with two decades in private markets and fintech, currently Head of Product at Forge. Previously held roles at Carta (helping build Carta Liquidity/CartaX), Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and the NYSE.
Product executive with two decades in security and developer tools, currently President of the Customer Identity Cloud at Okta and formerly CPO at Auth0 and SVP Product at DigitalOcean. He is an angel investor and board contributor in 50+ private companies, including a board seat at Aiven.
Director at Leap District and licensed CPA with over 15 years of experience in fund administration, tax compliance, and financial reporting, supporting Inflection Ventures with fund advisory, oversight, and LP onboarding.
Executive with a background in marketing, martech, adtech, and data analytics who leads investor relations for Inflection Ventures, focusing on relationship-building with investors.
Information security founder, investor, and advisor who co-founded and led ThreatGRID (acquired by Cisco in 2014), then led strategy and business development for Cisco's Security Business Group. A partner at MetroSITE Group and co-founder of Command Zero (2024).
Founder and managing partner of Schnapper-Casteras PLLC, a boutique law firm advising on frontier technology issues and appellate litigation. Serves as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Collective Global and holds a Non-Resident Senior Fellow position at the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center. Holds J.D. from Stanford Law School and M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.
Founder and managing partner of law firm Schnapper-Casteras PLLC advising technology companies on frontier-tech and appellate matters. Also General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Collective Global and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center.
Creative strategist specializing in brand development, digital experiences, and communications who shapes Inflection Ventures' brand identity, digital platforms, and communications.
Data-driven investor and analyst specializing in predictive analytics and startup success modeling, using machine learning for deal sourcing and investment analytics with a focus on AI, fintech, and SaaS. Currently pursuing a Master of Analytics at UC Berkeley.
Founder and Managing Member of Leap District Advisors, an outsourced CFO advisory firm supporting Inflection Ventures' funds and SPVs. Previously CFO/CCO at Washington Harbour Partners and CFO of the FORT hedge fund, with earlier roles at Monsoon Capital and Declaration Management & Research.
What they invest in
from 15 of 24 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×10Cloud Computing ×5Enterprise Software ×4Hardware ×4Deep Tech ×3Defense Tech ×3Developer Tools ×3Energy ×3
HQs:United States×15Bangladesh×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 15 portfolio companiesFounding team size:2 founders×53 founders×34+ founders×7
Where their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with education data
Stanford University ×4University of California, Berkeley ×4University of Toronto ×3Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ×2Princeton University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×13Engineering ×8Business & Management ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 33 founders with career history
Google ×7Twitter ×3Adentro ×2Adobe ×2BITS360 ×2Founders ×2Founders Fund ×2OpenAI ×2
7 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 30 with degree data)
Investments · 24 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2021 · 12018 · 12 dated
Palantir builds data integration and analysis platforms — Gotham for defence and government, Foundry for commercial operations — and deploys forward engineers inside customer organisations.
Palo Alto, US
Peter Thiel(Founder)inStephen Cohen(Founder)Nathan Gettings(Founder)Joe Lonsdale(Founder)inAlexander C. Karp(Founder)Alex Karp(Founder)
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCA*AiSprouts VCAkkadian VenturesAllied Venture Partners+73 more
Revolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
Hawthorne, US
Elon Musk(Founder)inBret Johnsen(Executive Officer)inGwynne Shotwell(Executive Officer, Director)Tom Mueller(Founder)
BoardAntonio Gracias(Director)inSteve Jurvetson(Director)in
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures1802 Ventures2080 Ventures3Spoke Capital4DX Ventures+214 more
Abnormal is an AI-native cybersecurity company that uses behavioral AI to detect and prevent email-based attacks and anomalous threats.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Evan Reiser(Founder & CEO)inSanjay Jeyakumar(Co-Founder)inRami Habal(Chief Product Officer (former))inSmita Sanadhya(Chief Financial Officer (former))inJeff True(Chief Legal Officer (former))inAbhi Bagri(Chief Technology Officer)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationArtisanal VenturesBallistic VenturesEQUIAMGreylock PartnersInsight Partners+5 more
Anduril builds autonomous systems and software for defense and military applications, including attack aviation, unmanned aircraft, and underwater vehicles, unified by an autonomy platform.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareRobotics
Palmer Luckey(Founder)inBrian Schimpf(Founder)inTrae Stephens(Founder)inJoe Chen(Founder)Joseph Chen(Founder)inMatt Grimm(Founder)
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors137 Ventures1435 Capital1Flourish Capital8VCAliya Capital PartnersAltra Venture+109 more
Chaldal.com is an online grocery and necessities delivery service available in Dhaka, Jashore, and Chattogram.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerE-commerceFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainDhaka, BD
Waseem Alim(CEO)inZia Ashraf(Founder)inTejas Viswanath(CTO)in
Co-investors500 GlobalBeresford VenturesMetaplanetRazor CapitalStartup BangladeshXploration Capital+18 more
Chaos Inc. develops portable radar systems and unmanned aerial system (UAS) detection technology for defense applications, offering efficient multi-target tracking and rapid deployment capabilities.
Defense TechHardware
John Tenet(Founder)Gavin Hood(Founder)inJohn T.(Founder)inBo Marr(Founder)Brett Cummings(Founder)
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors8VCAccelAlpha Wave GlobalCubit CapitalHOF CapitalLitquidity Ventures+10 more
CoreWeave provides a cloud platform for running, observing, and improving production AI systems, including a product called Forge that supports the full model/agent iteration loop.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure
Michael Intrator(Founder)inBrannin McBee(Founder)Brian Venturo(Founder)Peter Salanki(Founder)
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsCoatue ManagementDragon CapitalFOG VenturesG SquaredHustle Fund+19 more
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Founder)inIon Stoica(Founder)inMatei Zaharia(Founder)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAlpha Square GroupAltra Venture+116 more
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Exowatt builds modular clean energy infrastructure systems designed for 24/7 solar power generation, targeting global AI infrastructure and critical industries that require reliable, ultra-low-cost sustainable power.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergyHardwareMiami, US
Hannan Happi(Founder)Jack Abraham(Founder)inHannan H.(Founder)inHannan Parvizian(Founder)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAtomicBay Bridge Ventures ClimateBlack FlagBleu CapitalClimate Capital+15 more
Groq designs and manufactures the LPU (Language Processing Unit), a chip purpose-built for AI inference, and operates GroqCloud, a platform for running inference workloads with low latency and cost efficiency across global data centers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSemiconductorsPalo Alto, US
Jonathan Ross(Founder)inDouglas Wightman(Founder)
BoardChamath Palihapitiya(Director)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsAccess Ventures (New York)Acequia Capital (AceCap)Alumni VenturesAxiom PartnersB CapitalBanca Investis — Family Office+77 more
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsHoughton Street VenturesOUTPOST VENTURESStratim Capital
Parker provides banking services through a digital platform.
FintechNew York City, US
Milan Ray(Founder)inYacine Sibous(Founder)inNick O'Brien(Software Engineer)Jake Cohen(Finance)Nick Kucharski(Vice President of Eng)Chris Johnson(Head/Director of Frontend Engineering)
Co-investorsEthos VCY CombinatorA*Color CapitalDay One VenturesJefferies+6 more
Postman is an API platform that helps developers build, test, and manage APIs throughout their lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Abhinav Asthana(Founder)inAnkit Sobti(Founder)inAbhijit Kane(Founder)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsBattery VenturesInsight PartnersNexus Venture Partners83NorthAltra VentureBond Capital Management+16 more
Radiant Nuclear develops Kaleidos, a portable nuclear microreactor designed to replace diesel generators for remote locations and provide resilient backup power to hospitals, datacenters, and military installations.
Deep TechEnergyHardwareEl Segundo, US
Doug Bernauer(Founder)inBob Urberger(Founder)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Align VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBeyond CapitalCantos VenturesCarbon+27 more
Redwood Materials deploys large-scale energy storage systems for data centers and grid power while recycling batteries to recover critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper as a domestic source of these materials.
Circular EconomyEnergyNew MaterialsCarson City, US
JB Straubel(Founder)inKevin Kassekert(Executive Officer)Jason Thompson(Executive Officer)inJ. B. Straubel(Founder)
BoardDavid Danielson(Director)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investorsBreakthrough Energy VenturesBright Success CapitalCoatue ManagementCollaborative FundCollective LiquidityCongruent Ventures+26 more
Shield AI develops AI pilot systems for military applications including aircraft, drones, ships, satellites, and submarines.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechSan Diego, US
Brandon Tseng(Founder)inRyan Tseng(Founder)inAndrew Reiter(Founder)inKingsley Afemikhe(Executive Officer)inGary Steele(Chief Executive Officer)in
BoardKeith Dunleavy(Director)
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors515 Ventures645 VenturesAdvaita CapitalAF WPartnersAlpha PartnersAltra Venture+54 more
Vercel is an infrastructure platform for building and deploying applications, with emerging support for agentic capabilities that allow AI agents and humans to collaborate in software development.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Guillermo Rauch(CEO and Founder, Vercel)inNaoyuki Kanezawa(Founder)Tony Kovanen(Founder)
BoardGeoff Lewis(Director)inDaniel Levine(Director)inReid Christian(Director)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors8VCAccelBedrockBeyond CapitalCoatue ManagementCold Start Ventures+35 more
x.ai builds frontier AI reasoning models, real-time voice AI, and generative media systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu(Founder)inDennis Mortensen(Executive Officer, Director)Alex Poon(Director)Greg Yang(Founder)inGuodong Zhang(Founder)inIgor Babuschkin(Founder)in
PartnerKabe Roashan· solo GP
Co-investors7percent VenturesAbstract VenturesAccess Ventures (New York)Aglae VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen Horowitz+73 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Abnormal SecurityBob UrbergerEpirusProofpointRadiant NuclearSpace X
Exits · 4
3 IPOs · 1 acquisitions · showing 3Palantir Technologies Inc.NASDAQ: PLTRSpaceXNASDAQ: SPCXxAIacq. by SpaceX
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Databricks · databricks.com · Sep 24, 2026
CoreWeave · runtimewire.com · Sep 22, 2026
Abnormal Ai · Abnormal AI Newsroom · Aug 19, 2026
Anduril · geekwire.com · Jul 24, 2026
Groq Inc · groq.com · Jun 22, 2026
Parker · techcrunch.com · May 9, 2026
Shield AI · finsmes.com · Apr 2, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Inflection Ventures made?
- Inflection Ventures has 24 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited.
- What stage does Inflection Ventures invest at?
- Inflection Ventures invests at the Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Inflection Ventures focus on?
- Inflection Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Energy, Fintech, SaaS, Space Tech.
- Where is Inflection Ventures located?
- Inflection Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
- Who does Inflection Ventures co-invest with?
- Inflection Ventures most often shares deals with Coatue Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Beyond Capital, among 172 tracked co-investors.
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