Drew Leahy

Funding Aerospace & Defense Suppliers with Gov, Prime, and F1000 Contracts ($105M+ in 2025) | Former VC GP | Capital Intelligence | Non-Dilutive Capital | Entrepreneurship Lecturer @ University of Michigan

📍 Los Angeles, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Aug 2025
The Mind. Unlocked. Work Smarter. Live Better. Through proprietary brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, Neurable is pioneering the future of human-computer interaction by allowing you to use the power of your brain to get more out of your everyday devices.
Investor
Aug 2025
Klear is a working capital command center that helps founders master their cash flow and unlock capital to scale on their terms. Companies that build and sell within supply chains have irregular income and expenses driven by project milestones and long payment terms, making growth difficult even when sales are strong. Klear maps these milestones and financial events so leaders can plan operational and capital needs, and provides access to capital in the form of receivables financing to accelerate growth. Klear fills a gap in traditional lending and investing that makes supply chain companies more resilient and able to deliver faster.
Investor
Jun 2025
Lyten is an Advanced Materials company helping to decarbonize the planet by transforming greenhouse gases into Lyten 3D Graphene™, the most advanced carbon platform in the world, and using this material to develop highly innovative products that transform multiple industries. Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV) Using our proprietary Lyten 3D Graphene™, we are developing an advanced Lithium-Sulfur battery that can be used by electric vehicles in the automotive, aviation, and aerospace industries. Composite Materials Using our proprietary Lyten 3D Graphene™, we are developing new polyethylene composite materials that will reduce the weight of plastic products while simultaneously maintaining stiffness, impact, and durability. Advanced Gas & Resonant Sensors Using our proprietary Lyten 3D Graphene™, we are developing multiple types of advanced resonant sensors, bio-sensors, and gas sensors that will have a tremendous impact in the health, safety, logistics, and manufacturing industries.
late stageManufacturing
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2025
Digs AI unlocks happier homes. Digs is an AI platform for builders that focuses on Pre-Construction & Warranty/Aftercare. Digs AI automatically structures documents, enhances collaboration, and generates digital twin homeowner handoffs. Digs’ results in more efficient builds and a full digital understanding [3D digital twin] of the home for the homeowner that is both usable and shareable - Homefax for the home. Unlocking happier homes.
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Feb 2025
Hammerspace is radically changing how unstructured data is used and preserved. Our Global Data Platform unifies unstructured data across edge, data centers, and clouds. It provides extreme parallel performance for AI, GPUs, and high-speed data analytics, and orchestrates data to any location and any storage system. This approach creates a Global Data Platform that eliminates data silos and makes data an instantly accessible resource for users, applications, and compute clusters, no matter where they are located.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Build Customer Loyalty One Package At A Time: Strengthening customer loyalty while limiting marketing expenses has always been challenging for business owners, but with elteve, now you can do both! Our patented technology will help you bridge the gap between digital advertising and your physical customers, making timely and targeted marketing offers that will build brand loyalty and increase customer experience without eating away profits. A New Category in Market: On-Parcel Ad's We Bridge the Gap Between Digital and Print Advertising. Personalized Messages Interactive Physical Ads Increase Lifetime Value Communicate After The Sale Brands Retailers/e-Commerce Third-Party Logistics Label Brokers More Than Just Mailing Labels Every package needs a mailing label to arrive at its required destination. elteve utilizes these labels as package advertising to deliver a unique customer message and experience. The power of the message lies in the QR code you include with your message that leads the customer into the digital world for a special offer or invitation – we’ll leave the creativity up to you! Don’t want to use your shipping label to deliver this message? No problem! Simply print your marketing message directly on your packaging or on a separate label and easily affix it to your package. QR code advertising is a powerful tool any way you choose to use it.
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Aug 2017
Hawke Media is a marketing powerhouse, utilizing AI and proprietary technology partnerships to redefine the landscape. Weve grown 4,500+ diverse brands over the last decade. Our offerings include a complete suite of expert-led marketing services and the transformative Hawke AI platform that continuously processes data from 7,000+ brands and over $500M in media spend to help brands beat the market.
Board Member
Dec 2013
Music Unites, a 501(c)3 non-profit, is dedicated to bringing music education to underprivileged children in underfunded inner city school systems. Our goal is to connect people through the universality of music by providing communities with opportunities for a rich musical experience. This is achieved through education programs and by offering established and emerging musicians performance opportunities in a variety of venues and locations, including schools, where they act as mentors to the students. We also nourish the next generation of performers by providing audiences and performance opportunities, while at the same time enriching the listening experience of the public, allowing them to experience new forms and genres through exposure to an increasingly diverse world of music.
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2025
Investor
Aug 2025
The Mind. Unlocked. Work Smarter. Live Better. Through proprietary brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, Neurable is pioneering the future of human-computer interaction by allowing you to use the power of your brain to get more out of your everyday devices.
Investor
Aug 2025
Klear is a working capital command center that helps founders master their cash flow and unlock capital to scale on their terms. Companies that build and sell within supply chains have irregular income and expenses driven by project milestones and long payment terms, making growth difficult even when sales are strong. Klear maps these milestones and financial events so leaders can plan operational and capital needs, and provides access to capital in the form of receivables financing to accelerate growth. Klear fills a gap in traditional lending and investing that makes supply chain companies more resilient and able to deliver faster.
Investor
Jun 2025
Lyten is an Advanced Materials company helping to decarbonize the planet by transforming greenhouse gases into Lyten 3D Graphene™, the most advanced carbon platform in the world, and using this material to develop highly innovative products that transform multiple industries. Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV) Using our proprietary Lyten 3D Graphene™, we are developing an advanced Lithium-Sulfur battery that can be used by electric vehicles in the automotive, aviation, and aerospace industries. Composite Materials Using our proprietary Lyten 3D Graphene™, we are developing new polyethylene composite materials that will reduce the weight of plastic products while simultaneously maintaining stiffness, impact, and durability. Advanced Gas & Resonant Sensors Using our proprietary Lyten 3D Graphene™, we are developing multiple types of advanced resonant sensors, bio-sensors, and gas sensors that will have a tremendous impact in the health, safety, logistics, and manufacturing industries.
late stageManufacturing
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2025
Digs AI unlocks happier homes. Digs is an AI platform for builders that focuses on Pre-Construction & Warranty/Aftercare. Digs AI automatically structures documents, enhances collaboration, and generates digital twin homeowner handoffs. Digs’ results in more efficient builds and a full digital understanding [3D digital twin] of the home for the homeowner that is both usable and shareable - Homefax for the home. Unlocking happier homes.
Investor
Feb 2025
Nanotronics is a science technology company that has redefined factory control through the invention of a platform that combines AI, automation and sophisticated imagining to assist human ingenuity in detecting flaws and anomalies in manufacturing, an industry that has been stagnant since the 1950’s. Deployed across eight countries and industry agnostic, we work with leading-edge companies - from aerospace, to electronics, to healthcare - to drive up yield, reduce footprint and waste, lower costs, and speed up design iteration. Nanotronics is a key player in helping to solidify New York’s role as a global center of the innovation economy as we are currently building New York’s first high tech manufacturing hub in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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