Shift5 CEO and First In Venture Partner Josh Lospinoso testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services that major weapon system programs, both new and old, need funding and requirements to make them AI ready.

Shift5’s technology “has the potential to revolutionize aviation cybersecurity,” says a managing director at JetBlue Ventures.

Partner Arthur Karell on why the rush of investor interest into defense tech has made risk and reward harder to read—and where First In still sees durable opportunity along the cost curve.

Renny McPherson and Brian Mongeau lay out First In’s 2023 cybersecurity themes against a backdrop of surging cybercrime costs and an ever-expanding universe of connected, vulnerable devices.

First In Investor Reed Simmons: dual-use and defense technologies are at an inflection point, as the return of great power competition demonstrates the geopolitical importance of technological dominance.

Partner Arthur Karell unpacks a Huawei position paper on national computing power and what distributed computing—cloud, edge, and device—means for investors and for U.S. competition with China.

Grist Mill Exchange CEO and First In Venture Partner Kristin Wood on how new open-source technologies have birthed the field of open-source investigation—and why we need more of it.

Grist Mill Exchange CEO and First In Venture Partner Kristin Wood and SVP Cynthia Saddy argue the case for new open-source tradecraft.

Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced the winners of its fourth annual Capital Cyber Awards—and Shift5 won Commercial Cyber Company of the Year in the under-$50M revenue category.

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

First In announced the expansion of its investment team to include Arthur Karell as a Partner, with expertise across digital security and data intelligence—from AI and defense technology to distributed computing and web3.

First In announced its team’s expansion to include two new operating partners, Lenore Karafa and Patrick Metke.

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.

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 identifying major evolving cybersecurity themes and the key innovators providing solutions in those areas.

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

Principal Brian Mongeau examines how Executive Order 14208 turned zero trust from an abstract concept into a federal mandate—and a major market opportunity for cybersecurity startups.

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.

The First In team’s 2022 outlook on where cybersecurity opportunity is heading—from maturing sectors like zero trust and cloud security to emerging fields like OT security, web3, and threat-informed defense.

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.