Kirsten Bartok Touw came to venture investing after actually building aviation companies herself, co-founding XOJET and AirFinance and working in senior roles at Hawker Beechcraft before joining New Vista. At New Vista, she looks for defense and aerospace startups that can grow into major long-term suppliers rather than one-off vendors, prefers backing strong founders and teaching them the industry rather than the other way around, and also advises the Department of Defense's Office of Strategic Capital and EXIM's Council on China Competition on how government and private capital can work together.
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New Vista was built by three leaders from different corners of the U.S. defense world—an aviation and institutional investor, a former Boeing CEO, and a retired general—and focuses on helping startups both rebuild hard-power manufacturing and battlefield logistics and learn how to sell to the U.S. government. The fund invests from pre-seed through Series A, mainly backing U.S. companies while also helping international defense-tech firms establish themselves in the United States.
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