Our Investment Thesis

Woodard Investments backs founders from Pre-Seed to Series A across AI, Healthcare, and Defense. We invest $100k–$1M with fast, structured diligence and clear decisions.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Series A

Check Size

$100k–$1M

Pace

Clear yes or fast, useful no

Who we are: operators and investors with domain fluency across software, healthcare, and dual-use technologies.

How we invest: concentrated, thesis-led, and hands-on—helping with design partners, go-to-market, and follow-on strategy.

What We Look For

Urgent problems

Clear pain with immediate, measurable value to customers.

Relevant expertise

Founders with earned insight, technical depth, and user empathy.

Early traction

Pilots, LOIs, MRR, or regulatory/clinical milestones.

Defensibility

IP, workflow lock-in, or performance delta that widens over time.

Focus Areas

Where We Invest

Vertical AI

Specialized AI applications in complex domains with compounding data advantages.

Developer Tooling & LLMOps

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

Infrastructure & Enabling Tech

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

Healthcare Innovation

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

Defense & National Security

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

AI Data & Model Infrastructure

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

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