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Companies 3/19/24 Companies 3/19/24

Shift5 Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 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.

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Companies 3/12/24 Companies 3/12/24

Antithesis: Deterministic Simulation Testing for Our Entire SaaS

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.

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Companies 3/11/24 Companies 3/11/24

Hypersonic weapon startup Castelion has first prototype missile test

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.

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Companies 3/9/24 Companies 3/9/24

Precog Featured as an SAP Partner

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.

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Companies 2/13/24 Companies 2/13/24

Code testing startup Antithesis raises seed funding at $215 mln valuation

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.

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FirstIn 2/13/24 FirstIn 2/13/24

Emerging Themes in Security Technology in 2024

Renny McPherson and Arthur Karell on First In’s 2024 themes, and why security across cyber, defense, and industrial domains is now deeply interconnected—land, sea, air, space, and cyber alike.

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Companies 1/19/24 Companies 1/19/24

How this founder went from the NSA to launching a digital security startup

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

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Companies 12/8/23 Companies 12/8/23

US Army Selects Shift5 to Protect HIMARS Against Cyber Threats

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).

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FirstIn 11/30/23 FirstIn 11/30/23

Arthur Karell Joins Tyler Sweatt on All Quiet on the Second Front Podcast

On All Quiet on the Second Front, host Tyler Sweatt is joined by Arthur Karell, a seasoned expert in corporate development, for a discussion of the human aspect of mergers and acquisitions.

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FirstIn 11/9/23 FirstIn 11/9/23

Podcast: From the military to the boardroom – Bunker Labs Chair Lenore Karafa talks her transition from Marine Corps Officer to venture capitalist

In honor of Veterans Day, the Women on the Move podcast’s Sam Saperstein talks with Lenore Karafa—Marine Corps veteran, venture capitalist, and chair of Bunker Labs—about her transition from the military into finance.

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Companies 11/1/23 Companies 11/1/23

Cloneable Emerges From Stealth With Funding: Launching AI-driven Platform Designed to Give Machines the Decision-Making Power of Human Experts

Cloneable, a no-code platform for building and deploying intelligent applications on edge devices including tablets, IoT devices, robots, and drones, emerged today out of stealth.

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Companies 10/24/23 Companies 10/24/23

Adlumin Named to The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups 2023

Companies with the potential to be the most valuable businesses in their categories—based on current revenues, business models, and growth prospects.

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Companies 10/16/23 Companies 10/16/23

AnySignal Closes $5M Seed Round to Build Multi-Domain Radio Platform

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

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Companies 10/5/23 Companies 10/5/23

a16z-backed Castelion wants to mass-produce defense hardware, starting with hypersonics

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 its use, that ensures states avoid war.

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Companies 9/29/23 Companies 9/29/23

How DOD can more effectively leverage venture-backed innovation

First In Venture Partner and Shift5 CEO Josh Lospinoso on how the Department of Defense can more effectively leverage venture-backed innovation.

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Companies 6/30/23 Companies 6/30/23

Palmer's Luckey Strike

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

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FirstIn 6/27/23 FirstIn 6/27/23

Gabby Fong on the Atlanta Startup Podcast: The VC Hyper-Focused on Innovation Within Cybersecurity, Defense, and Duel-Use Tech

On the Atlanta Startup Podcast, First In Senior Associate Gabby Fong discusses innovation in cybersecurity, defense tech, and dual-use technologies—and her transition from the U.S. Navy into venture capital.

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Companies 6/25/23 Companies 6/25/23

Anduril acquires solid rocket motor manufacturer Adranos

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

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FirstIn 6/5/23 FirstIn 6/5/23

Generative AI and Security Technology

Technology Advisor Maggie Engler examines what the generative AI boom sparked by ChatGPT means for cybersecurity and security technology, from LLM capabilities to the first autonomous agents.

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Companies 5/6/23 Companies 5/6/23

Phylum is one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2023!

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

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