Lavrock Ventures

McLean VA. Early-stage national security / dual-use technology VC. Founded 2015 by Jim Hunt (government scientist → VC, 20yr Georgetown McDonough adjunct professor). Focuses on post-seed and Series A, $2-4M checks into $3-12M rounds. Prefers to lead. Exclusively B2B. Thesis: dual-use technologies with both commercial viability and national security application. Sectors: cybersecurity, enterprise software, govtech, deep tech, space, quantum, defense tech. ~60 investments. 3 unicorns in portfolio including ID.me and Castelion. Notable partners: Juliane Gallina (former CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, first woman to lead USNA brigade, Naval Academy graduate — joined Lavrock). Co-investors: IQT heavily overlapping. Portfolio: Castelion (hypersonics, $350M Series B), Morpheus Space, ID.me (identity verification). Deep DMV/IC network. NSIN partner.