About Catapult Ventures
Catapult Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Dec 2025, Catapult Ventures has invested in 25 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Applications and Food and Agriculture Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series D round of Mythic Overall, Catapult Ventures portfolio has seen 5 acquisitions, namely FlightWave Aerospace, Oculii and XNOR.AI. A lot of funds co-invest with Catapult Ventures, with names like JSCapital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Catapult Ventures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 2 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Soonicorns
Catapult Ventures' List of Top Investments
Catapult Ventures has a portfolio of 25 companies. Their most notable investments are in Pickle Robot and Strella Biotech.Their portfolio spans across United States, Nigeria and United Kingdom. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Food and Agriculture Tech and 14 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Catapult Ventures:1. Pickle Robot
Developer of AI-powered robotic systems for warehouse and supply chain automation. Its robots utilize generative AI, machine vision, and autonomy to unload non-palletized goods from trailers and containers. The robots capture operational data, providing dashboards for warehouse managers to monitor performance. The dashboards can be configured to manage single robots or fleets of robots.
Key facts about Pickle Robot
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Cambridge (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $87M
- Employee Count: 129 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: RRE Ventures, BoxGroup and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Apr 19, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Elroy Air
Autonomous aircraft systems for cargo delivery purposes. It developed a prototype featuring rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing and fixed-wing cruise flight with a hybrid powertrain. It offers various features, including reduced delivery times, minimal human error, enhanced delivery accuracy, and improved safety. It enables users to optimize routes, reduce fuel consumption, and potentially reshape urban infrastructure and logistics, and more.
Key facts about Elroy Air
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $116M
- Employee Count: 50 - 199 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: Hone Capital, Creative Capital and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Oct 31, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Mythic
Developer of analog compute-in-memory solutions for artificial intelligence inference acceleration. The company provides processors and cards designed for power-efficient AI at the edge. Its technology aims to eliminate memory bottlenecks, enabling new AI applications. The products target sectors including robotics, security, and consumer devices.
Key facts about Mythic
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Austin (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $266M
- Employee Count: 101 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: AME Cloud Ventures, Wild Basin Investments and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Dec 17, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. SpinLaunch
Provider of kinetic launch systems for small payloads using catapult technology. It develops electric-powered kinetic launchers that use centrifugal spinning to launch satellites from Earth into space without using chemical propellants and booster rockets. It uses the rotational acceleration method by harnessing angular momentum to accelerate the vehicle to hypersonic speeds into outer orbits. It also provides the power needed to launch the cargo that is equipped with supplemental rockets.
Key facts about SpinLaunch
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Long Beach (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $190M
- Employee Count: 51 as on Feb 13, 2025
- Investors: ATW Partners, Kleiner Perkins and 23 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jul 31, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Manufacturer of UAVs for aerial surveying. Backed by either a massive Li-ion battery pack or the hydrogen fuel cell system, the company's multi-rotor airframe, Jupiter UAS, has been designed with a focus on application in aerial data collection in inaccessible areas. The UAS is also used in monitoring ocean health, vegetation growth, agriculture development, conservation of forests, and public safety.
Key facts about FlightWave Aerospace
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Santa Monica (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Employee Count: 75 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: WorldQuant Ventures, Proud.Ventures and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Aug 15, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Catapult Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Catapult Ventures has invested in 25 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 3 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Elastix and most recent follow-on round was in Mythic.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Catapult Ventures' Investments by Stage
Catapult Ventures has made 8 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $7.43M, 7 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $16.9M, 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $30M and 1 investment in Series C stage with an average round size of $13M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 8 |
Series A | 7 |
Series B | 2 |
Series C | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Catapult Ventures' Investments by Sector
Catapult Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech and Auto Tech. Notably, it has invested in 21 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 20 Tech companies, 14 Tech hardware companies and at least 11 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 12 |
Enterprise Applications | 5 |
Consumer | 4 |
Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech | 3 |
Auto Tech | 3 |
Others | 27 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Catapult Ventures' Investments by Geography
Catapult Ventures has made most investments in United States (15), followed by Nigeria where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 15 |
Nigeria | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Catapult Ventures' recent investments
Catapult Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Catapult Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 17, 2025 | United States | Series D | 1492 | [+10] | |
May 24, 2025 | United States | Seed | 6959 | [+3] | |
Jan 10, 2025 | United States | Series B | 5405 | ||
Sep 24, 2024 | - | Seed | 1536 | [+3] | |
Apr 19, 2024 | United States | Series B | 6571 | [+5] |
Acquired companies in Catapult Ventures' Portfolio
5 companies from Catapult Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was FlightWave Aerospace in Sep 2024 by Red Cat for $*****.Here are Catapult Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 05, 2024 | - | - | 4959 | |
Oct 26, 2021 | May 06, 2021 | Series B | 5865 | |
Mar 02, 2021 | May 31, 2019 | Seed | 7409 | |
Dec 09, 2020 | - | - | 9287 | |
Jan 15, 2020 | May 08, 2018 | Series A | 7284 |
Team profile of Catapult Ventures
Catapult Ventures has a team of 1 member located in United States. Catapult Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Catapult Ventures
Over the past 9 years, 167 investors have co-invested in Catapult Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Catapult Ventures: DCVC, National Science Foundation and 44 others have invested in rounds before Catapult Ventures. There are 2 companies where DCVC has invested before Catapult Ventures and 2 companies where National Science Foundation has invested before Catapult Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Catapult Ventures: 73 investors entered a company along with Catapult Ventures. These include investors like JSCapital (2 companies).
- Invested after Catapult Ventures: A total of 48 investors have invested in Catapult Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include One Madison Group (3 companies), Catapult Ventures (3 companies) and New Legacy Group (2 companies).
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