Firms

Harpoon Ventures

San Diego, California, United States

Harpoon Ventures backs early-stage companies in AI, deep tech, defense, cybersecurity, energy and biotechnology. It helps founders develop commercial markets and navigate US government customers and procurement.

Founded: 2018
Type: Venture capital

Funds1

Harpoon Ventures Fund IV2026-06-302026-06-30$155M
Early-stage venture fund for critical technologies across AI, energy, cybersecurity, aerospace, defense, manufacturing and biotechnology. Oversubscribed final close at $155 million.

Team

Jake Windle Harpoon Ventures, Investor	$2M$250K – $5M
Andrew Couillard Harpoon Ventures, Investor	—— – —
Clint Brown Harpoon Ventures, Investor	—— – —
Jeff Torrance Harpoon Ventures, Managing Partner	—— – —
Larsen Jensen Harpoon Ventures, Founder & General Partner	—— – —
Mat Vogels Harpoon Ventures, Investor & Special Projects	—— – —
Matias Zorrilla Harpoon Ventures, Investor	—— – —
Riley Loftus Harpoon Ventures, Investor	—— – —

Operations and support

Noelle HaleOperations Associate

Sean ConleyVenture Fellow

Seth LindstromVenture Fellow

Investments

$60M2026-02-26	Encord	Y Combinator, Crane Venture Partners, Wellington Management, CRV, Harpoon Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital
$5M2025-12-16	EraDrive	Point Nine Capital, Harpoon Ventures, Haystack
$10M2025-10-01	Electroflow	Union Square Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Fifty Years, Harpoon Ventures
$47M2025-05-13	Somite	Khosla Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Fusion Fund, Scifi Vc
$—2025-03-25	N8n	Sequoia, Harpoon Ventures, Highland Europe, HV Capital, Felicis
$100M2025-02-05	Semgrep	Lightspeed, Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia, Felicis, Aydin Senkut
$5M2025-01-01	EraDrive	Point Nine Capital, Harpoon Ventures, 2100 Ventures
$5M2025	EraDrive	Point Nine Capital, Haystack, Harpoon Ventures, 2100 Ventures
$6M2024-03-21	Tarsal	Y Combinator, Hoxton Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Bracket Capital, Mango Capital
$—2023-08-09	Deepset	Lunar Ventures, GV, Harpoon Ventures, Balderton Capital, System.One
$15M2023-06-20	Oso	Sequoia, Harpoon Ventures, Felicis, Jake Storm
$62M2023-03-30	Graphiant	Sequoia, Atlantic Bridge, Wa'ed Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Two Bear Capital, IAG Capital Partners
$14M2022-04-28	Deepset	Lunar Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, GV, Harpoon Ventures, Sequoia Capital, System.One
$18M2022	WireScreen	Sequoia, Harpoon Ventures, Venrex Investment Management LLP
$30M2021-12-09	Robust Intelligence	Sequoia, Harpoon Ventures, Tiger Global Management, LLC, Engineering Capital
$125M2021-11-10	Kodiak Robotics, Inc.	Lightspeed, CRV, Battery Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, SIP Global Partners, Gopher Asset Management
$125M2021-11-10	Kodiak	Lightspeed, CRV, Hoxton Ventures, Battery Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, SIP Global Partners
$5M2021-10-26	Cyabra	OurCrowd, Founders Fund, TAU Ventures, Accomplice, Harpoon Ventures
$12M2021-04-26	N8n	Sequoia, Firstminute Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Felicis, Aydin Senkut
$—2020-10-21	Robust Intelligence	Sequoia, Harpoon Ventures, Engineering Capital
$50M2020-09-15	Volansi	Lightspeed, Hoxton Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Icon Ventures, Y Combinator, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
$—Unknown date	Atropos	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Netography	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Decodable	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Bluesky Data	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Determined AI	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Truera	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Akita	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	LeapYear	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Tarly	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Super Powers Mobility	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Type III	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Tectonic	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Truffle Security	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Buoyant	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Monad Security	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Netskope	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Cycognito	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	General Galactic	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Moldco	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Orbital Operations	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	MATERIAL	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Ulysses	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Recursive Superintelligence	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	JITX	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Material Security	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Alta Ares	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Vector Defense	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Vantage	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	American Supercritical	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Firestorm Labs	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Glyphic Biotechnologies	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Lumos	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Merlin Labs	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Ursa Major	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Northwood	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Sema4.ai	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Starcloud	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Genesis Molecular AI	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	MatX	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Aalo Atomics	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Astranis	Harpoon Ventures
$—Unknown date	Solugen	Harpoon Ventures
$100MUnknown date	Aalo	Y Combinator, Crosscut Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Gaingels, Hitachi Ventures
$10MUnknown date	Electroflow	Fifty Years, Union Square Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, Voyager Ventures
$357MUnknown date	Solugen	Fifty Years, Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, GIC Private Limited, Lowercarbon Capital, Harpoon Ventures, Carbon Direct Capital
$47MUnknown date	Cellular Intelligence	Khosla Ventures, Fusion Fund, Scifi Vc, TechAviv, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Harpoon Ventures, Ajinomoto Group Ventures
$—Unknown date	Airplane	Harpoon Ventures

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Team

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Investments