New Vista Capital

Investment decisions are led by the co-founding team of Dennis Muilenburg (Chairman and CEO), Kirsten Bartok Touw (Managing Partner), and Gen. Stephen Wilson (Senior Partner). They are supported by Senior Partners Kory Mathews and Mela Louise Norman, drawing on an advisory bench of retired generals and former Pentagon acquisition officials.

The firm sources deals through its partners' direct relationships inside the Department of Defense and the aerospace supply chain. Co-Founder Dennis Muilenburg's tenure as Boeing CEO and Gen. Stephen Wilson’s role as Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force provide proprietary insight into emerging requirements, while the broader venture-partner network flags technologies meeting near-term defense needs.

New Vista operates as a venture capital firm that also embeds a strategic-operator model. It makes direct equity investments and simultaneously provides portfolio companies with operational guidance on defense procurement, testing, and scale-up, leveraging a team that has previously built and bought advanced defense systems.

The firm states it invests from inception to scale, indicating an appetite for seed through growth-stage companies in its core domains of AI and autonomy, space, reindustrialization, and defense technology.

The firm's exclusive focus areas are AI and autonomy, space technologies, reindustrialization via advanced manufacturing, and next-generation defense systems. This narrow dual-use aperture is the mandate — it does not target commercial-only enterprise software, fintech, or consumer tech.

The firm's public materials do not detail a co-investment program or club structure. Based on its strategic posture, it is likely to operate primary direct investments, potentially syndicating with defense-specialist funds or strategic corporate investors, though this is not confirmed in available sources.

New Vista has not publicly disclosed an assets-under-management figure. As of mid-2026, no fund sizes or closing announcements appear on its website or public records, suggesting the firm is in a formative capital-deployment phase.