Necessity Ventures is an investment firm that makes strategic and tactical investments in innovative companies at the civil-military technology nexus.
We focus our investment activities on companies with highly transformational market potential to impact government and commercial markets in which we can add value through the experience of our team, deep industry relationships and technology expertise.
Necessity Ventures is a private company formed out of an initiative led by the Civil-Military Innovation Institute Inc. (CMI2). CMI2 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity that supports United States Department of Defense (USDOD) activities to build a civil-military innovation workforce optimized to advance national security technologies and to align the work of innovators from universities and non-traditional technology companies with the activities of the USDOD and public safety communities. The collaboration with CMI2 allows us to utilize a customer-centric, comprehensive approach to tracking national security challenges, evaluating potential solutions to these challenges, assessing potential investments & connecting our investments to market opportunities.
Necessity Ventures investments are made with a global perspective and America first mentality. We focus our equity and debt placement activities on two primary types of investment models: