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

June 27, 2023On the Atlanta Startup Podcast, First In Senior Associate Gabby Fong discusses innovation in cybersecurity, defense tech, and dual-use technologies. Topics include use cases for operational technology and critical infrastructure security, vendor consolidation, the challenges and opportunities of utilizing AI in cybersecurity, and her transition from the U.S. Navy into venture capital.

June 25, 2023 ‘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.

April 19, 2023 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 of the DoD's operational application of AI/ML.

April 4, 2023 (WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL) Arlington, Va. - Shift5’s technology “has the potential to revolutionize aviation cybersecurity,” says a managing director at JetBlue Ventures.

November 21, 2022 (REAL CLEAR DEFENSE) by First In Investor Reed Simmons - Dual-use and defense technologies are at an inflection point. The return of great power competition has demonstrated the geopolitical importance of technological dominance.

November 1, 2022 (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.

October 24, 2022 (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.

October 20, 2022 (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 the Year in the Under $50M in Revenue category.

October 4, 2022(PRESS RELEASE) Tidal Cyber today announced the close of a $4 million funding round to continue making threat-informed defense achievable.

October 03, 2022 (PRWEB) Nashville, Tenn. - Today, First In™ announced the investment team’s expansion to include Arthur Karell as a Partner. Arthur's expertise is centered on the investment themes of digital security and data intelligence, with a special focus on artificial intelligence, defense technology, distributed computing, and web3’s impact on identity and encryption.

September 08, 2022(PRWEB) First In™ announced its team’s expansion to include two new operating partners, Lenore Karafa and Patrick Metke.

August 11, 2022 (DARKREADING) Up-and-coming companies shoot their shot in a new feature introduced at the 25th annual cybersecurity conference.

August 11, 2022 (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.

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.

May 03, 2022 (PRNEWSWIRE) Phylum announces $15 million in Series A funding led by ClearSky, with contributions from Atlassian Ventures, SixThirty Ventures, First In™ and TechOperators.

March 22, 2022 (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.

February 08, 2022 (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.

December 15, 2021 (BUSINESSWIRE) Appaegis Inc., a leading Data Centric Zero Trust access security company, announced that it raised $7.7M in seed funding.

December 14, 2021 (FINSMES) Base Operations, a Washington, DC-based global threat-intelligence platform for enterprise security departments of multinationals, raised $3m in Seed 2 funding.

December 07, 2021 (BUSINESSWIRE) The cybersecurity company secures its $25M Series B funding that will support its strategic shift to a channel go-to-market strategy.

October 12, 2021 (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.

June 21, 2021 (PRWEB) Today, First In, the venture capital firm focused on supporting mission-driven founders in cybersecurity and dual-use technologies, announced the initial close of First In Ventures Fund I (“Fund I”).

June 08, 2021 (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.

May 29, 2021 (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.

May 20, 2021 (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.

February 11, 2021 (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...

November 17, 2020 (THE DRIVE) It first emerged more than a year ago that “adversaries” had launched successful cyber attacks against these armored vehicles.

September 29, 2020 (BUSINESSWIRE) Adlumin received Series A funding that will secure its expansion in the financial sector.

September 9, 2020 (PRWEB) Phylum, a DevSecOps startup committed to derisking the open-source ecosystem, announced today the launch of their first software tool. The tool, also ...

August 8, 2020 (THE HILL) The growing prevalence of online services and apps marketing to young demographics is downright scary.

July 14, 2020 Adlumin received a patent for systems and methods of anomaly detection on core banking platforms, solidifying its mark on the financial industry.

June 23, 2020 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...

June 18, 2020 US-based cybersecurity company Shift5 has been contracted by the US Air Force (USAF) for the Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programme.

May 18, 2020 Adlumin celebrates passing 50 financial institutions customers as the company continues to grow its security and compliance automation platform.

May 12, 2020 James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems is making an investment in market research startup Morning Consult, known for its surveys and modernizing political polling.

Apr 16, 2020 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.

March 5, 2020 RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented process to immunize software from cyber attacks without developer friction, today announced a...

November 26, 2018 The company didn’t disclose terms, but a source pegged the price at more than $100 million.

April 30, 2018 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 will give American Well access t…

October 4, 2017 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.

August 29, 2017 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.