The Team

A deliberate pairing: venture capital meets federal workforce policy.

IndustriousAF is co-founded by a venture capitalist with a deep-tech engineering background and the former federal authority on registered apprenticeship. Workforce policy and frontier-tech sourcing live in separate worlds, and the problem IndustriousAF works on sits precisely where they should meet.

Co-Founders

A bridge between Silicon Valley and Washington.

Ashwin Lalendran, co-founder of IndustriousAF
Co-founder

Ashwin Lalendran

Venture Capital×Hard Tech

Deep-tech venture capitalist. Connecting IndustriousAF to the frontier companies it serves, and to the Little Tech ecosystem absent from industrial policy.

  • Background: Apple · US Air Force Research Lab · Moxxie Ventures
  • Practice: Industrial capacity research, and scaling hard-tech startups
Brent Parton, co-founder of IndustriousAF
Co-founder

Brent Parton

Workforce Policy×Federal Systems

President of CareerWise. The policy and operational authority on registered apprenticeship in the United States, and the person who has spent the last decade scaling it.

  • Background: Acting Asst. Secretary of Labor, USDOL
  • Practice: Pilots, policy, and applied workforce research