Booz Allen Ventures
Corporate venture capital arm of Booz Allen Hamilton backing early-stage dual-use startups in AI, cybersecurity, and defense tech; participated in Reality Defender's expanded $33M Series A (October 2024) and Scout AI's funding round (April 2025).
Booz Allen Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Booz Allen Hamilton, launched in 2022 to back early-stage, dual-use startups in AI, cybersecurity, defense tech, quantum, and space. It organizes its activity around three stated pillars — Discover (source emerging transformative technology), Deploy (commercialize rapidly using Booz Allen's capital and ~20,000 technologists), and Defend (deliver solutions for homeland/national security) — leveraging Booz Allen's government relationships to help portfolio companies reach mission customers faster.
Overview
- Firm
- Booz Allen Ventures
- Headquarters
- McLean, VA
- Founded
- 2022
- AUM
- $300M (as of July 2025, tripled from an initial $100M committed at the 2022 launch); Booz Allen has also separately committed $400M to the a16z Growth Fund, a distinct vehicle not included in this figure
- Stages
- Seed, Series A
- Thesis
- Bring commercial-grade technology to mission at speed and scale, in service of tech superiority that defends the nation.
Portfolio companies2
Frequently asked
- What is Booz Allen Ventures?
- Bring commercial-grade technology to mission at speed and scale, in service of tech superiority that defends the nation.
- How much does Booz Allen Ventures manage?
- Booz Allen Ventures manages $300M (as of July 2025, tripled from an initial $100M committed at the 2022 launch); Booz Allen has also separately committed $400M to the a16z Growth Fund, a distinct vehicle not included in this figure in assets, and was founded in 2022.
- What stages does Booz Allen Ventures invest at?
- Booz Allen Ventures invests at Seed, Series A.
Sources & citations5
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Booz Allen Ventures backs early-stage dual-use startups across AI, cybersecurity, defense tech, quantum, and space, via a Discover/Deploy/Defend model.
Booz Allen: VenturesVerified2026-08-09 - 2
Booz Allen launched a $100M venture capital fund in July 2022.
Businesswire: Booz Allen Launches $100M Venture Capital FundVerified2022-07-13 - 3
Booz Allen tripled its venture capital commitment to $300 million (as of July 2025).
Booz Allen Newsroom: Booz Allen Triples Venture Capital Commitment to $300 MillionVerified2025-07-01 - 4
Booz Allen Ventures participated in Reality Defender's expanded $33 million Series A (Oct 2024).
PR Newswire: Reality Defender Expands Series A to $33 Million to Enhance AI Detection CapabilitiesVerified2024-10-22 - 5
Booz Allen Ventures invested in Scout AI, maker of the FURY vision-language-action model for autonomous defense robotics (announced April 16, 2025).
Booz Allen Newsroom: Booz Allen Advances Physical AI for DoDVerified2025-04-16