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Will Coffield

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Smart Money Rating: 95 out of 100

co-founder and General Partner, Riot Ventures

  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Logistics & supply chain
  • Space, aerospace & defense
  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Defense and aerospace
  • Logistics
Firm
Riot Ventures
Title
co-founder and General Partner
Role
General partner
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Record updated 18 September 2026

About

Will Coffield is co-founder and General Partner at Riot Ventures. Will is a career institutional venture investor with over a decade of experience working with companies from ideation to IPO. At Riot, Will focuses on the firm’s investment practice in defense and aerospace as well as logistics and advanced manufacturing. Will has led investments in True Anomaly (orbital defense prime), Parallel Systems (autonomy for rail freight), Oxide Computer Company (hyperscale datacenter infrastructure), Alloy Enterprises (Carnegie Steel 2.0), Elementary ML (artificially intelligent QA/QC for manufacturing), Rugged Robotics (construction robots), Open Envoy (freight AP automation), Azimuth (telemetry data infrastructure) and Route (ecommerce logistics and insurance).

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defense and aerospace; logistics; advanced manufacturing

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