A national security focus VC fund, America's Frontier Fund, raises a large new fund and uses the support of the sector as the Trump administration behind Defense Tech.
According to a pitch deck, which Business Insider looks at, the company collects up to 315 million US dollars for his first fund called Frontier Fund. At the beginning of 2023, the goal for the fund was 500 million US dollars, according to a SEC submission.
According to Deck, the fund will consist of 140 million US dollars of private capital from limited partners and $ 175 million government loans. The fundraiser has not yet closed and the conditions of the deal could change. Part of the financing will be carried out by the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology Initiative, a program created by the Department of Defense and the Small Business Administration to expand private investments in Biotech, Quantum Science, Advanced Materials, AI, Space and much more.
A spokesman for the risk company refused to comment on the fundraiser.
The America's Frontier Fund receives state-guaranteed loans and corresponds to private investments up to $ 175 million. According to Washington Business Journal, which was sufficient for the first time through the fund's government loans in 2024, the company will repay the company over a period of ten years. The fund also collected $ 100 million from the state of New Mexico, Bloomberg reported in 2023. The private capital increase was not previously reported.
The Frontier Fund will give the company in Arlington, Virgin for Back Start-ups structure of border technology-progressive production, calculation solutions, energy and other high-technical areas that support American economic and geopolitical influence. The America's Frontier Fund recently invested in Venus Aerospace, which makes hyperschall engine technology, and the startup of metal production.
315 million US dollars are large for a first fund; The market extinguishing, delayed initial public offers and more have hindered the capacity of the risk of increasing large sums of money from limited partners. In 2024, 121 US risk capital companies collected donations for the first time and achieved $ 5.7 billion obligations. This year, the average size of the first fund of a company based in the USA was almost $ 41 million, according to Data company PitchBook, over $ 270 million smaller than the Frontier fund.
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Investments in the Defense -Tech area rose to up to 1.4 billion US dollars in the first quarter from 2025 compared to 200 million US dollars in the same period in the previous year.
The company is also investing in its Roadrunner venture studios, in which startups are prepared and Seed stage stage, which is mainly building in New Mexico Frontier Tech. The heavyweights in Silicon Valley, such as the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the start -up partner Peter Thiel, have invested an initiative to support the technological competitiveness of the United States, e.g.
Gilman Louie, the CEO of the American border fund, previously caught and directed the investment company financed by the CIA. Co -founder and managing partner Jordan Blashek used to work at Schmidt Futures, the family office of Eric Schmidt, now Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropical organization, research in AI, Advanced Computing, Biotech, Climate and other industries.