Defense and Dual-Use Technology

Plutos Capital

Check: $250K–$500K stated first-check range in a current @FryCookVC public post, with 'no matter how early' guidance. Plutos describes investing from pre-seed through Series A across equity and token rounds. Confirm currency, ownership, reserves and whether the range applies to the Genesis Fund before relying on it.

Lukas backs deeply technical founders building sovereign, privacy-enabling infrastructure across blockchain, AI and dual-use systems. His central claim is that institutions need the openness, neutral settlement and composability of public chains but cannot expose salaries, counterparties, cash flow, supply chains or trading strategies. Private permissioned chains repeatedly lose network effects and create costly governance silos; the investable bridge is privacy technology—zero-knowledge proofs, encrypted transactions and mempools, confidential compute, TEEs and secure hardware—that preserves public-chain interoperability while protecting sensitive data. He extends that secure-compute thesis across software and hardware, terrestrial and orbital systems.