Dark Horse
Dark Horse Venture Partners

American & Allied Resilience.

A venture firm investing in the defense technologies, energy backbone, and financial infrastructure of the free world.
Est. MMXIX
Private & Confidential
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Resilience is not defense — it’s the precondition of power.
Fragile systems negotiate. Resilient systems dictate.
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Thesis.

Dark Horse invests in American & Allied Resilience: the defense technologies, energy backbone, and financial infrastructure of the free world.

Money, energy, and security are the three systems a nation runs on. For the first time since 1945, all three are being rebuilt at once, on the same clock, for the same cause: the return of great-power competition.

Allied rearmament is a decade-long commitment, bought by career institutions whose programs outlast elections. AI compute has collided with a grid built for a smaller century, and power is now the binding constraint on economic and military capacity. The dollar’s next chapter is being built on regulated stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and settlement rails: financial plumbing as an instrument of statecraft.

We back the dark horses before the consensus finds them.

Join us.

Yorick Evans-Freke, Founder & Managing Partner
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Three pillars, one force multiplier.

Defense & Dual-Use

Autonomy, secure compute and communications, sensing, and hardened supply: what allied rearmament actually buys, sourced through the institutions buying it.

Energy & Industrial

Resilient generation, grid and fuel infrastructure, and the industrial backbone that powers compute and capability.

Financial Infrastructure

The institutionalization of onchain finance: regulated stablecoins, tokenized assets, and settlement rails. The dollar’s next chapter.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence runs through all three pillars, and we underwrite it in every position.

Power feeds the arsenal and the data center. The dollar finances and settles both. Defense secures all three.
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Selected partners.

Deploying since January 2026. Secure hardware for defense and autonomous systems, applied AI, and the regulated rails on which institutional capital moves.

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Agant
The UK’s only FCA-registered institutional sterling stablecoin, selected by Circle as the sterling layer for Arc.
Regulated Stablecoin
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Ascend
Credit infrastructure for regulated tokenized assets, participating on DTCC’s tokenized securities platform from day one.
Tokenized Credit
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Tokinvest
The first VARA-licensed multi-asset issuance platform, bringing private markets onchain as regulated, fractional, globally tradeable products.
RWA Issuance
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BIMA
An institutional-scale Bitcoin-backed dollar, unlocking productive liquidity against the largest digital balance sheet in the world.
BTC-Backed Dollar
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Sees
Hardware-level data integrity and anti-tamper silicon for autonomous and defense systems; 26 patent filings across Japan, the US, and China.
Secure Hardware
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Servamind
A universal AI data format and compute engine, from a founding team out of Alignment Lab AI, the Army Research Laboratory, and DHS.
Applied AI
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The people behind the firm.

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Yorick Evans-Freke
Founder & Managing Partner
New York  ·  Montana
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Dean Mathis
Partner, Defense & Energy
Virginia
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Warren Raiti
Partner & General Counsel
New York  ·  Palm Beach
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Kariem Sobh
Partner
EMEA  ·  APAC
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Paul Taylor
Venture Partner
Philadelphia
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Penelope Johnson
Head of Investor Relations & Operations
Montana
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Build with our portfolio.

Open roles at companies in the Dark Horse portfolio. We share these opportunities because the people who join our founders shape the firms we back.

Interested parties may apply directly. We do not act as a recruiter; introductions are made founder-to-candidate.

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