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02 July 2025 - As the US Army pushes to find new, non-traditional industry partners, it is planning to test out a developmental hypersonic round from defense startup Castelion that can be launched from a future autonomous launcher.

18 May 2025 CBS News 60 Minutes with Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril, a California defense products company.

11 March 2025 360 Privacy, a leading digital executive protection platform, today announced that it has secured a $36 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital.

13 February 2025 Castelion, a startup founded by SpaceX alumni, is bringing hypersonic missile development back to El Segundo, partnering with the US Air Force for testing.

14 February 2025 Antithesis, autonomous software testing company, raised $30M in funding.

29 January 2025 Silicon Valley’s enthusiasm for superfast weapons has picked up speed, with defense-tech startup Castelion raising $100 million through debt and equity to build hypersonic missile systems.

21 January 2025 Precog, the enterprise leader in AI-driven ETL solutions, announced today an investment from Boston-based Venture Guides, a venture capital firm specializing in enterprise infrastructure software and go-to-market execution.

20 November 2024 - Acquisition Builds on Successful Partnership to Fuel Resilience Across the Full IT Environment and Strengthen the Security Posture of Customers Worldwide

9 August 2024 Defense start-up Anduril Industries announced Wednesday that it raised $1.5 billion in funding for its Series F round, valuing the company at $14 billion.  

Onboard operational data company Shift5 has developed a new tool for detecting and mapping GPS spoofing, the firm announced Thursday (4/25).

United States Air Force announced that Anduril has been selected as one of two vendors to move forward on the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program.

ROSSLYN, VA – March 19, 2024 – Shift5, the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT), has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024.  This year’s list shines a spotlight...

March 12, 2024 WarpStream - How we leverage Antithesis to deterministically simulate our entire SaaS platform and verify its correctness, all the way from signup to running entire Kafka workloads.

March 11 (Reuters) - Castelion, a startup trying to build a hypersonic weapon for the Pentagon, tested its system for the first time, it told Reuters on Monday, as a growing group of small hypersonic arms makers challenge large defense contractors...

Learn how Precog solves critical business challenges for customers by leveraging the full power of SAP Business Technology Platform capabilities for their AI-driven, no-code data integration (ELT) platform. Maximizes your customer's value of their operational data...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - Software testing startup Antithesis has raised $47 million in seed funding, valuing the company at $215 million, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Amplify Partners, Tamarack Global, and First In Ventures led the funding round, the...

The Centennial-based startup recently raised a $2.3 million pre-seed.

The US Army has entered into an agreement with American firm Shift5 to bolster the cyber resiliency of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). As part of the deal, the Virginia-based company will install tools to allow the combat-proven...

Cloneable, a no-code platform designed for building and deploying intelligent applications on edge devices including tablets, IoT devices, robots, and drones, emerged today out of stealth. The founding team, drawing on a decade of expertise as leaders in the...

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The radiofrequency technology company plans to use the funds to execute on considerable customer backlog by growing production and R&D capacity.

One builds weapons in the hope that they are not used. Thus goes the central premise of deterrence theory, which says it is the credible threat of aggression — not the use of aggression — that will ensure states avoid war.

By First In Venture Partner and Shift5 CEO Josh Lospinoso

The 30-year-old American billionaire building robotic subs, and more, in Australia.

‘Through this acquisition, Anduril will become a merchant supplier of solid rocket motors to prime contractors’

From tenure-based sabbaticals to covering healthcare costs to paying your people to take vacation, the winning benefits share a theme: meeting employees’ needs.

Washington, D.C. - "Major weapon system programs, both new and old, need funding and requirements to make them AI ready," Shift5 CEO and First In Venture Partner Josh Lospinoso testified to the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services regarding the improvement...

(WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL) Arlington, Va. - Shift5’s technology “has the potential to revolutionize aviation cybersecurity,” says a managing director at JetBlue Ventures.

(THE CIPHER BRIEF) by Grist Mill Exchange CEO and First In Venture Partner Kristin Wood - New Open Source technologies have birthed the relatively new field of open-source investigation and we need more of it.

(THE CIPHER BRIEF) Grist Mill Exchange CEO and First In Venture Partner Kristin Wood and SVP Cynthia Saddy argue the case for new open source tradecraft.

(YAHOO) McLean, Va. - Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the trade association representing the National Capital Region’s technology community, today announced the winners of the fourth annual NVTC Capital Cyber Awards. Shift5 won Commercial Cyber Company of...

(PRESS RELEASE) Tidal Cyber today announced the close of a $4 million funding round to continue making threat-informed defense achievable.

(CSO ONLINE) Here are some of the most interesting new products launched at Black Hat USA 2022, including zero trust, extended detection and response (XDR), and a host of other threat and vulnerability management offerings.

(DARKREADING) Up-and-coming companies shoot their shot in a new feature introduced at the 25th annual cybersecurity conference.

Optiv Future Points spotlighted First In portfolio companies Phylum and Immuta in a recent white paper that identifies major evolving cybersecurity themes and the key innovators providing solutions in those areas.

(PRNEWSWIRE) Phylum announces $15 million in Series A funding led by ClearSky, with contributions from Atlassian Ventures, SixThirty Ventures, First In™ and TechOperators.

(PRESS RELEASE) Shift5 has been awarded a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to compete for orders under a $950,000,000 ceiling for DoD's JADC2.

(TECHCRUNCH) Shift5’s latest round of funding lands just a few months after its $20 million Series A raise, buoyed by several million-dollar deals last year during which the company doubled its headcount.

(BUSINESSWIRE) Appaegis Inc., a leading Data Centric Zero Trust access security company, announced that it raised $7.7M in seed funding.

(FINSMES) Base Operations, a Washington, DC-based global threat-intelligence platform for enterprise security departments of multinationals, raised $3m in Seed 2 funding.

(BUSINESSWIRE) The cybersecurity company secures its $25M Series B funding that will support its strategic shift to a channel go-to-market strategy.

(FORBES) Shift5 warns America’s transport and weapons systems are vulnerable, claiming it has the best people in the world - former members of an elite NSA hacking unit - to protect them.

(AXIOS) Morning Consult, the Washington, D.C.-based research and polling firm, has raised a $60 million Series B round that values the company at over $1 billion.

(NY TIMES) Officials are hoping that an immersive virtual reality experience, including with Moth + Flame, aimed at getting airmen to intervene will succeed where years of traditional training have failed.

(VENTUREBEAT) Immuta says it will use the investment — which brings the startup’s total raised to date to $169 million — to expand the size of its workforce, acquire new customers, and further develop its products.

(TECHCRUNCH) Base Operations just closed their $2.2 million seed funding round and will use the money to capitalize on its recent launch of a street-level threat mapping platform for use in supporting enterprise security operations...

(THE DRIVE) It first emerged more than a year ago that “adversaries” had launched successful cyber attacks against these armored vehicles.

(BUSINESSWIRE) Adlumin received Series A funding that will secure its expansion in the financial sector.

(PRWEB) Phylum, a DevSecOps startup committed to derisking the open-source ecosystem, announced today the launch of their first software tool. The tool, also ...

(THE HILL) The growing prevalence of online services and apps marketing to young demographics is downright scary.

Adlumin received a patent for systems and methods of anomaly detection on core banking platforms, solidifying its mark on the financial industry.

Privacy is a growing concern for consumers and lawmakers around the world. It is also a growing headache for businesses of all sizes that must comply with a raft of new data rules, including Europe's GDPR regime and...

US-based cybersecurity company Shift5 has been contracted by the US Air Force (USAF) for the Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programme.

Adlumin celebrates passing 50 financial institutions customers as the company continues to grow its security and compliance automation platform.

James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems is making an investment in market research startup Morning Consult, known for its surveys and modernizing political polling.

Swimlane acquires Syncurity. The deal converges SOAR, incident response, case management & managed security services. Still, MSP- & MSSP friendly rivals like Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks Demisto & Sophos loom.

RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented process to immunize software from cyber attacks without developer friction, today announced a...

The company didn’t disclose terms, but a source pegged the price at more than $100 million.

This morning telehealth company American Well announced that it will be acquiring fellow telemedicine company Avizia in late Q2 for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to help American Well grow its acute care capabilities, which Avizia specializes in. The deal...

Financial technology start-up Earnest has agreed to be acquired by student loan servicing giant Navient for $155 million in cash, the companies said on Wednesday.

RedOwl, a Baltimore-based cybersecurity analytics startup, has been acquired by a Raytheon-owned firm in a deal that investors and business leaders say proves the region's value as fertile ground for growing companies that can compete with the likes of Silicon Valley.