Stephen Rodriguez

Investor @DCVC | Founder @OneDefense

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 26 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Advisor + Investor (Series B)
2026
Industrial humanoids hard at work.
Board Advisor + Investor (Series B)
2026
REGENTs mission is to drastically reduce the cost and headache of regional transportation between coastal destinations. We create Seaglider vessels, wing-in-ground-effect craft that fly just above the waters surface and couple the high speed of airplanes with the convenience of boats, all at the low cost of an all-electric system. The 12-passenger Viceroy Seaglider model will service routes up to 180 miles at 180 mph with existing battery technology, and routes up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries, all via existing dock infrastructure. Backed by the same investors who support SpaceX, Anduril, and Archer Aviation, our team of passionate, forward-thinking builders combines the best of aerospace and maritime expertise to turn zero-emission, high-speed coastal travel into reality.
Board Advisor + Investor (Series A)
2026
The operating system for agentic AI in high-consequence environments. Human intent. Machine execution. Decision advantage in minutes, not months. Our platform, Nebula, orchestrates AI agents, models, tools, and data sources into governed workflows. Full provenance on every action. Human oversight at every step. Deployed in production inside classified environments today. Built for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. Founded by veterans of the CIA, JSOC, and frontier AI.
Board Advisor + Investor (via Atropos acq.)
2026
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. CHAOS Industries’ products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Board Observer + Investor (Pre-Seed)
2026
Worlds first Native Counter Swarm system
Board Observer + Investor
2025
Adyton is a veteran owned, venture backed, American public benefit corporation building world class mobile software products for people who serve. The Adyton Operations Kit is the first and only app suite built for the warfighter in mind, a one-stop shop for personnel and equipment accountability, file sharing, team comms, and scheduling. Experience the brilliance of getting the basics right with AOK. Step up your teams ground operations by eliminating frustration, saving valuable time, and moving faster with the certainty of real-time data.
Board Advisor + Investor
2025
We’re building autonomous ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers. Our team has launched 100+ hardware products, built some of America’s most complex ships, and fielded millions of robots. Some of these are in use in your home, others on Ukraine’s battlefields. We don’t doubt that building ships with no human crew will be tough. We like tough.
Board Observer + Investor
2025
Atropos is building the future of autonomous flight as a vertically integrated, design-build-test-and-operate service. We start with a clean sheet, designing aircraft that have never existed before—aircraft engineered to matter in both the commercial and defense sectors. We’re not tweaking legacy aircraft or bolting autonomy onto yesterday’s systems. Our approach bridges real-world defense and commercial technology. No slide decks. No flashy animations. No fluff. We don’t sell platforms, we deliver capabilities.
Board Advisor + Investor
2025
Reach is the leader in high-performance wireless power-at-a-distance. Reach’s wireless power solution does for power delivery what Wi-Fi does for data connectivity. The Reach system is built on state-of-the-art, patented technology, including high-efficiency power beaming circuits, network optimization algorithms, and adaptive electromagnetic surfaces, delivering a highly scalable, safe, and easy-to-use power platform. Ideally suited for critical infrastructure, government, energy, logistics, and first responders, the Reach solution provides flexible access to power where and when needed, streamlining device deployment and improving device performance.
Board Member + Investor
2025
Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by harnessing advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. Our groundbreaking technology platform leverages customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and other essential minerals with unprecedented selectivity while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. By tailoring our adsorbent to bind selectively to individual elements, even at low concentrations in complex mixtures, Alta is positioned to expand access to the building blocks of electric vehicles, advanced electronics, defense technologies, and more. Altas approach is built on technology licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and co-developed with collaborators including researchers at Pennsylvania State University. With support from top investors including DCVC and Voyager, government agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense, and the state of Colorado, Alta aims to catalyze a mining technology revolution, secure critical mineral supply chains, and enhance U.S. competitiveness in the 21st-century economy.
Board Advisor + Investor (Pre-Seed)
2025
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Board Advisor + Investor
2024
Smack uses deep RL and machine learning to accelerate critical decision-making from the command center to the front lines.
Board Advisor + Investor
2024
At Chariot Defense, were building the intelligent hardware and software infrastructure to solve the military’s most critical bottleneck: how energy is transformed, controlled, and distributed as power across the modern battlefield. Todays battlefield looks a lot different than 5 years ago. Autonomous drone swarms, sophisticated sensors, AI control rooms, and directed energy weapons — all reliant on noisy diesel generators or constantly idling vehicles. Our Amphora product line delivers silent, variable power specifically designed for distributed operations, electronic warfare, and autonomous systems at the tactical edge. With a deeply experienced team from Anduril, Uber, Tesla, and frontline military operations, were already fielded and proven with the Department of Defense. Ready to lead the charge? Join our mission.
Board Member
2024
The New American Industrial Alliance (NAIA) is a multi-sector industry association where U.S. companies and investors convene to lead the charge in rebuilding America’s techno-industrial strength.
Board Advisor + Investor
2024
We are building the most advanced sensing and Electronic Warfare backbone, giving drones, unmanned platforms, ground stations, naval assets, and maneuvering forces the resilience to operate confidently under modern threats. Our software-defined ODIN platform fuses breakthrough signal processing with edge AI on off-the-shelf hardware, delivering full spectrum awareness - detecting, classifying, and geolocating threats while turning congested RF environments into real-time, actionable intelligence across commercial, industrial, and defense domains. www.r2-wireless.com
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2026
Board Advisor + Investor (Series B)
2026
Industrial humanoids hard at work.
Board Advisor + Investor (Series B)
2026
REGENTs mission is to drastically reduce the cost and headache of regional transportation between coastal destinations. We create Seaglider vessels, wing-in-ground-effect craft that fly just above the waters surface and couple the high speed of airplanes with the convenience of boats, all at the low cost of an all-electric system. The 12-passenger Viceroy Seaglider model will service routes up to 180 miles at 180 mph with existing battery technology, and routes up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries, all via existing dock infrastructure. Backed by the same investors who support SpaceX, Anduril, and Archer Aviation, our team of passionate, forward-thinking builders combines the best of aerospace and maritime expertise to turn zero-emission, high-speed coastal travel into reality.
Board Advisor + Investor (Series A)
2026
The operating system for agentic AI in high-consequence environments. Human intent. Machine execution. Decision advantage in minutes, not months. Our platform, Nebula, orchestrates AI agents, models, tools, and data sources into governed workflows. Full provenance on every action. Human oversight at every step. Deployed in production inside classified environments today. Built for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. Founded by veterans of the CIA, JSOC, and frontier AI.
Board Advisor + Investor (via Atropos acq.)
2026
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. CHAOS Industries’ products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Board Observer + Investor (Pre-Seed)
2026
Worlds first Native Counter Swarm system
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