RTX Ventures

Aero X Ventures is a specialized early-stage venture firm investing in innovative technologies that are transforming Aerospace and Defense (A&D). We are experienced investors focused on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and related A&D sub-markets with increased technology demand, competition, and M&A to generate competitive venture investment returns. Our Vision Within Aerospace & Defense (A&D), we see a meaningful opportunity to invest into early-stage companies with product traction in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Robotics & Autonomous Systems (RAS), & Smart Manufacturing. Each of these A&D sub-markets are utilizing key enabling technologies to drive scalable solutions to difficult problems and have both a military and commercial application. Within Defense, we see a positive trend and demand for private capital investment. We are particular to companies innovating and driving growth of critical technologies within the Department of Defense. We will support each portfolio company navigate market and optimize strategy. We will maximize the value of our social and intellectual capital to accelerate growth. Target companies seeking seed & series A equity financing with product-market fit Invest into companies up to $10M in annual revenue and post-money valuation up to $100M Leverage our domain expertise and network of public and private relationships Investment size of $500k to $3M Lead, Co-Lead or Participate in venture financing rounds Maximize our Strategic Advisory Board of experienced Aerospace & Defense executives and regulatory leaders

We are a devoted team of investors, founders, and operators dedicated to supporting the global ambitions of trailblazing innovators. We invest primarily at the seed stage, enabling pioneering and mission-driven innovators to solve critical problems at the intersection of enterprise and national security. We bring a wealth of expertise in navigating these venture capital markets and opportunities. Areas of Focus Salus is looking for meaningful partnerships with innovators who are redefining our technological capabilities in critical areas. We have unique experience in identifying commercial technologies with high potential application, or 'dual-use', within large but difficult-to-access government markets. Aerospace and Autonomy: New capabilities to access and thrive in the skies, on land, at sea, and in space. AI, Machine Learning and Data Intelligence: Cutting-edge technologies helping to unlock the potential of our digital age. Automation and Advanced Manufacturing: Technological innovations to improve our production capabilities for entirely new products and enhance the way we make existing products. Cybersecurity and Enterprise Software: New technologies to build a more robust digital infrastructure and mitigate against the growing threats in the cyber landscape. Defence and National Security: Nurturing disruptive technologies across critical areas that will evolve our strategic autonomy capabilities. Supply Chain and Public Wellness: Novel technologies building vital capabilities onshore, reducing our dependencies and improving sustainability. What we bringGuidance: Support and mentoring across areas of operational excellence, governance, lifecycle strategy and experience with understanding the journey. Community: We have an extensive network of local and global leadership, talent, customers, investors and government to build around our portfolio companies. Capital: In addition to our strong relationships with global venture funds, we have an experienced community of Salus investors handpicked to provide support beyond pure financial capital. Insight: Our experience with dual-use technology provides unique access and understanding to unlock both industry and government engagement.

With an inherent aim of generating mission outcomes, we back founders who are innovating at the center of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), cybersecurity, and core areas to advance Joint All-Domain Command and Control technologies. Our focus is on early-stage companies (Seed, Series A, and Series B) where we can provide technical and strategic support, client and contract access, and where there is potential to build joint intellectual property as part of a far-reaching collaboration with our engineering and client teams. Spotlight Investments To date, we have invested in technology startups that dramatically streamline and transform how federal agencies carry out critical processes which are central to their missions. To increase speed to deployment, and eliminate traditional barriers to moving research and development out of the lab and into the field, our team connects startups with Booz Allen's developers, skilled in delivering innovation for mission impact. Explore some of the organizations we partner with today. Latent AI: Latent AI’s tinyML technologies will help reliably use ML at the edge - increasing the operating speed of complex algorithms in low-compute, low-power environments. This innovation enables our clients to gain decision advantage with small form-factor devices such as Android Tactical Assault Kits (ATAK). Latent AI’s developer tools allow for ML to be deployed to processors as small as microcontrollers. Synthetaic: Synthetaic’s advanced technologies dramatically streamline the process of labeling geospatial, video, image, and other types of data through its proprietary Rapid Automatic Image Categorization (RAIC) platform. By eliminating cumbersome manual tasks, the platform enables engineers to deploy object detection algorithms for rare objects in minutes through the use of generative AI and unsupervised learning in a seamless AI pipeline. Reveal Technology: Reveal Technology’s Farsight software facilitates data streaming from drones to ATAK devices. Users can rapidly process data at the edge and create detailed two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3D) maps that depict terrain, roads, and structures. By turning full-motion video into shared 3D mapping with layered analytics, Reveal Technology’s capabilities dramatically increase insight per megabyte to improve situational awareness on the mission front lines. Hidden Level: Hidden Level’s passive sensing technology of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for high-interference environments, supports global defense missions that operate in information-driven conflict spaces across warfighting domains and at the tactical edge. This passive aerial monitoring technology delivers real-time airspace visibility, detects silent airborne threats, and informs critical countermeasure opportunities.

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) was created to supercharge the Alliance’s unique innovation ecosystems. Allied talent and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are world-leading, but the market to support deep tech innovation is underfunded. With the NIF, we are creating a commercialisation machine in both the private and public sectors, backing innovators to secure the future for the Alliance's 1 billion citizens. Focus The NIF is a standalone EUR 1 billion venture capital fund supporting ambitious founders developing emerging and disruptive technologies. For us, high-impact verticals include artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, energy & propulsion, manufacturing, and space. We are passionate about autonomy, hypersonics, new materials and quantum, and want to shore up cutting-edge hardware and software. Rallying around NATO’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs), our focus will evolve in parallel with today’s rapid innovation environment. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Autonomy Quantum Biotechnologies Hypersonic Systems Space Novel Materials & Manufacturing Energy & Propulsion Next-Generation Communications Objectives With a long-term view, the NIF enables transformative technologies with the potential to shape our security for decades to come. Our mission is an essential one, and it holds us to seeking out cutting-edge developments that solve NATO's challenges through adoption in defence and security markets; bolstering the capacities of Allied innovation ecosystems; and ultimately driving the scale and success of our portfolio.

We’re an intensely curious, early to growth-stage VC firm independently supporting companies that are set to shift the future of aerospace. We invest in a full spectrum of fast-accelerating technologies addressing our planet’s greatest challenges. Airbus Ventures invests in autonomous mobility, electrification, low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, security, and beyond. Our firm uniquely operates across international borders to transform technology at the intersection of Earth and space. Our Network Airbus Ventures continuously fosters close and trusted relationships with other leading venture firms, actively offering hands-on expertise to our portfolio companies. We proudly leverage the richly dense networks of our mothership Airbus and its supply chain, as well as the wider ecosystem of our Limited Partners. We work with multiple LPs – including Airbus SE, Development Bank of Japan Inc., Mitsubishi HC Capital, Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd., and McKinley Capital – to better enable our entrepreneurs to grow and succeed. Drawing on our own deep roots in aviation innovation, we believe it is a natural success that more than half of the species on Earth fly – it is the most successful adaptation this planet has known. With our entrepreneurs, we seek and develop new patterns of emergence, accelerating their synergies and ascent to new system capabilities.

An early stage VC fund focused on investing in Israeli DeepTech and SpaceTech from concept to creation. WHAT DO WE INVEST IN We pursue moonshots driven by breakthrough innovations, seeking companies with core technologies and visionary entrepreneurs dedicated to building impactful, world-changing startups. OPTICS & PHOTONICS QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES RF TECHNOLOGIES MATERIALS & CHEMISTRY COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROCESSING SEMI-CONDUCTORS ENGINEERING & ELECTRONICS HOW DO WE INVEST We work hand-in-hand with forward-thinking entrepreneurs, as early as the venture building stage, to develop pioneering Deep Tech companies. By utilizing our extensive expertise and resources, we expedite their path to success. WHY DO WE LIKE DEEPTECH The world is changing and growing more complex - the rise of AI, ever increasing climate challenges, the desire to move into an autonomous world, striving to reach the moon and stars - and existing infrastructure is not built to handle this complexity, necessitating a new generation of physical infrastructure which can break the physical barriers of today through cutting edge scientific innovation, enabling the applications of tomorrow.