Backing Founders Solving Critical Problems

Pre-Seed to Series A investments in AI, healthcare, and defense — $100k–$1M.

Our Investment Thesis

Woodard Investments partners with founders building in AI, healthcare, and defense. We aim to be the easiest "yes" or the fastest, most useful "no."

Clear pain with immediate value to customers.

Founders with earned insight and domain fluency.

Pilots, LOIs, MRR, or regulatory approvals.

Focus Areas

Specialized AI applications in complex domains with compounding data advantages.

Dev tools, evaluation, observability, prompting, guardrails, and workflow automation.

Inference acceleration, data pipelines, vector DBs, labeling, and edge/compute fabric.

Diagnostics, imaging, care coordination, backend ops plumbing, and clinical enablement.

C5ISR, EW, autonomy, edge compute, resilient comms, and secure supply chains.

Pipelines, proprietary datasets, training/inference efficiency, and enabling layers.

Our capital at work

We partner directly and through funds with founders building in AI, healthcare, and defense. Here are selected current exposures.

EtherMed

AI-driven clinical decision platform

Promaxo

Accessible MRI imaging for urology practices

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