01ADIV

Pre-seed to seed capital for dual-use aerospace and defense founders

Operator-led. We find founders early, de-risk team, technology and model, then help them scale with primes, Tier-1s and governments.

Contact us Read the thesis

02Scope

Three domains and the layer beneath them

AI/SI runs through everything we back: an enabling technology inside aviation, space and defense systems, never the end in itself.

01

Aviation

  • Supersonic
  • hybrid
  • eV/STOL
  • UAV
  • fuel cell
  • hydrogen
  • UAS
  • UTM
  • autonomy
  • avionics

02

Space

  • Satellites
  • launch
  • data comm
  • remote sensing
  • Earth observation

03

Defense

  • Integrated systems
  • UAV
  • UAS
  • counter-UAS
  • data comm
  • optical
  • cybersecurity

04

Enabling technologies

  • Materials
  • energy
  • robotics
  • AI/SI
  • connectivity
  • autonomy
  • propulsion
  • biotech
  • simulations and modeling

03Support

Beyond capital

  • 01

    People

    Co-founders, talent

  • 02

    Technologies

    Validation, TRL

  • 03

    Market fit

    Product, modeling

  • 04

    Growth

    GTM, brand, operations

  • 05

    Partnership

    Primes, startups

  • 06

    Fundraising

    New and follow-on capital

04Sourcing

Preliminary portfolio

Sourced mainly via ASTRA and INNOVET.

Portfolio to date

  • 11

    Companies in ADIV's preliminary portfolio

  • $189M

    Combined value, pre-money, unrealised

  • 62%

    Survival rate

  • 1

    Exit: MiraEX acquired, May 2026

The $189M covers 15 holdings at current pre-money value (ADIV portfolio model, September 2026); not yet sold, and not audited. The survival rate and the exit come from the ADIV model; the exit, MiraEX, is outside the 11.

  • AstroTeq.ai
  • BlackRover
  • HydroSight
  • Maverick AI
  • Muotech
  • NovaLink
  • ONNES
  • OrbitAID
  • PulSight
  • Pyrrhus
  • Sentaya

See each company

05Team

Managing Partners

Noemie Alliel, Managing Partner

Noemie Alliel

Ecosystem Architect

Lionel Sinai-Sinelnikoff, Managing Partner

Lionel Sinai-Sinelnikoff

Operational Scale

Meet the team

06Founders

Talk to us early

For deep tech, dual use, aerospace and defense founders.

Send a short note on what you're building and, if you have one, a deck link.

Email startup@adiv.vc For founders

Controlled data. Please share public, non-confidential information only. Do not send classified, controlled or export-restricted material, including technical data controlled under ITAR or the EAR.