About Us

About ThoRaven Ventures

Ground Truth Consulting for Defense Tech.

ThoRaven, driven by Special Operations and intelligence expertise, delivers mission-focused investment and defense tech advisory support that closes the gap between lab innovation and battlefield reality.

Our Vision

Advance national security by enabling founders to build resilient, operator-validated technologies that deliver a decisive advantage in critical missions.

Our Mission

Deploy capital and embed elite advisors to accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and ensure defense technologies achieve readiness and adoption at speed.

Operational Edge

Turning Field Knowledge into Strategy

ThoRaven operator-advisors carry battlefield-tested insight into every engagement. Each advisor brings discipline, adaptability, and mission focus, helping innovators align their products with real-world conditions.

Precision

Resilience

Alignment

Impact

The Way It Works

HOW WE DRIVE YOUR ADVANTAGE

ThoRaven follows a mission-first process that embeds elite expertise into every stage of development, ensuring technologies are validated, resilient, and ready for operational impact.

Define the Mission

We work with founders to capture real operator needs, translating them into clear product requirements and pathways toward defense adoption.

Embed the Expertise

SOF advisors integrate with your team, providing continuous input, rapid iteration cycles, and strategic guidance rooted in battlefield truth.

Test Under Stress

We push products through realistic field conditions and adversarial modeling, confirming resilience, interoperability, and usability where failure is not an option.

Adapt and Scale

As technology matures, we align strategies with acquisition priorities, ensuring long-term integration, mission relevance, and growth across defense ecosystems.

Guardians of Discipline

MEET OUR SKILLED OPERATORS

Our skilled Operators, drawn from U.S. Special Forces, bring battlefield-tested discipline, adaptability, and leadership—transforming men into resilient, focused leaders prepared for life’s toughest missions.

U.S. Army Ranger. Silver Star Recipient. 20 years Special Operations. Executive MBA Candidate at NYU Stern. Cancer survivor and mentor.

Carl Hanstetter

10th Special Forces Group. Columbia Mathematics Graduate. Engineer for national security. Stanford MBA Candidate. Ultramarathon athlete and leadership strategist.

Luke Zerrer

Stand Ready

Your Mission Is Our Priority

ThoRaven advisors remain accessible when you need them most. We bring accountability, clarity, and readiness support, ensuring your work stays aligned with mission demands. Whether for guidance, feedback, or rapid problem solving, our network responds with the same urgency and discipline applied in the field.

Testimonials

STORIES FROM THE FIELD

Every mission leaves a mark. These are the voices of founders and leaders who partnered with ThoRaven, embraced operator insight, and built solutions ready for the fight.