Never Lift
Venture capital firm led by Charlie March; an early investor in Cambridge Aerospace, participating across all three of its funding rounds through 2025.
Never Lift is a New York-based early-stage venture fund led by General Partner Charlie March (an Oxford graduate with UK family ties, previously of Afiniti, Thrive, and 8VC), investing in logistics, mobility, and infrastructure. The firm has recently articulated a resilience and sovereignty thesis spanning aerospace, defense, AI, and energy, and has participated in every funding round to date — pre-seed, seed, and Series A — of Cambridge Aerospace.
Overview
- Firm
- Never Lift
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Founded
- 0
- AUM
- Stages
- Seed, Series A
- Thesis
- Early-stage (seed/Series A) investor in logistics, mobility, and infrastructure, with a growing resilience and sovereignty focus on aerospace, defense, AI, and energy.
- Website
- www.neverlift.vc/
Portfolio companies2
- CompanyCambridge AerospaceUK counter-drone startup building the Skyhammer interceptor family (range 30km+, top speed 700km/h) for drones and low-speed cruise missiles; UK Ministry of Defence agreed in April 2026 to buy hundreds of Skyhammer systems.
- CompanyIsembardUK software-first manufacturing company building distributed precision factories for aerospace, defense, and other critical industries.
Frequently asked
- What is Never Lift?
- Early-stage (seed/Series A) investor in logistics, mobility, and infrastructure, with a growing resilience and sovereignty focus on aerospace, defense, AI, and energy.
- What stages does Never Lift invest at?
- Never Lift invests at Seed, Series A.
Sources & citations3
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Never Lift participated in every funding round of Cambridge Aerospace to date (pre-seed, seed, Series A)
Resilience Media: Never Lift revealed as early investor in Cambridge Aerospace as startup confirms $136M raisedVerified2025-09-30 - 2
Neverlift Ventures participated in Isembard's $9M seed round.
FinSMEs: Isembard Raises $9M in Seed FundingVerified2025-04-29 - 3
Never Lift VC Management, L.P. is headquartered at 331 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010.
SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD): Never Lift VC Management, L.P. — Firm SummaryVerified2026-08-08