We back founders with world-changing potential at pre-seed and seed

Portfolio

Backing world-class founders solving world-sized problems

Select investments
Automated production · on the floor
Hadrian
The Future of American Production
Chris Power, Founder and CEO of Hadrian
Chris Power
Founder & CEO

Building AI-driven factories to rebuild American manufacturing.

Live operational planning
Onebrief
A live planning platform for the teams making mission-critical military decisions
Grant Demaree, Founder & CEO of Onebrief
Grant Demaree
Founder & CEO

A defense veteran solving a problem he lived.

Molecular AI · no setup
Tamarind Bio
AI that lets any scientist run frontier biology without code or infrastructure
Deniz Kavi, co-founder & CEO of Tamarind Bio
Deniz Kavi
Co-founder & CEO

A Stanford researcher building AI for the lab.

American missile defense
Long Wall
Mass-producible interceptors reshaping the economics of American missile defense
Dan Piemont, Founder & CEO of Long Wall
Dan Piemont
Founder & CEO

From the team that built at ABL and SpaceX.

Business insurance
HARPER
The AI Insurance Brokerage Built For Small Business
Dakotah Rice, Founder and CEO of Harper
Dakotah Rice
Founder & CEO

Former Wall Street investor reimagining the brokerage model

Payments infrastructure · across Africa
Flutterwave
The infrastructure moving money across the fastest-growing markets on earth
Olugbenga Agboola, Co-founder & CEO of Flutterwave
Olugbenga Agboola
Co-founder & CEO

A PayPal alumnus building for Africa.

Firm oversight · automated
HadriUS
The Compliance Operating System For Regulated Finance
Thomas Stewart, Founder and CEO of Hadrius
Thomas Stewart
Founder & CEO

Former fund manager, building automatic compliance systems.

Team

Ben Lynett, General Partner
Ben Lynett
General Partner

Ben has made more than 80 early-stage investments since 2015, with two exits, and serves as a board observer at Long Wall. A CFA charterholder, he came up in electronic trading and credit markets before venture.

Becky Clauson, Partner
Becky Clauson
Partner

Becky has backed more than 50 early-stage companies since 2018, bringing a Wall Street pedigree from financial sponsors banking and private equity. She leads the financial modeling and capital-markets work that helps Lynett companies professionalize as they scale into Series A and B.

Contact

Building something that can change the world? Let's talk.

Ben Lynett
General Partner
Becky Clauson
Partner