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Announcing the 2025 NVCA Rising Stars! ?? Meet the next generation shaping the future of venture capital: ?? Sarah Du – Leading AI investments and expanding Uncork Capital’s sourcing strategy. ?? Andreas Vandris – Backing applied AI startups at Menlo Ventures. ?? Nicole DeTommaso – Expanding VC access and diversity at Harlem Capital. ?? Matt Schappell – Scaling healthcare innovation at Frist Cressey Ventures. ?? David Rothzeid – Advancing national security tech at Shield Capital. Join us at the NVCA Leadership Awards Dinner on June 5, 2025, at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park, CA, as we celebrate these rising stars. ?? Save the date & register: https://lnkd.in/eJQDxTjN

We’re honored to share that Mimic has been named to the 2025 Enterprise Tech 30 list! Selected by over 100 venture capitalists and corporate development leaders, the #ET30 recognizes the top private companies shaping the future of enterprise tech.

?? Big news at GovSignals! We're thrilled to announce our multi-million dollar contract win with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), marking a significant expansion of our AI-powered acquisition and procurement solutions directly to government agencies. We're also excited to collaborate with unstructured.io, bringing advanced AI-ready data processing to modernize government workflows. Together, we're turning massive amounts of unstructured data into actionable insights, driving efficiency and transparency where it's most needed. ?? Key Highlights: ??? Direct support for government agencies: Modernizing procurement and acquisition workflows. ? FedRAMP High & IL5 readiness: Accelerating secure solutions for DoD. ?? Partnership with Unstructured: Enhancing data processing and AI-driven workflows. ?? Boosting efficiency: Turning unstructured data into actionable insights for smarter decision-making. Learn more about our transformative AI solutions ?? https://www.govsignals.ai Read the DIU announcement: https://lnkd.in/gsdecby3 #GovSignals #DIU #GovTech #FedRAMP #IL5 #AI #GovernmentInnovation #GovCon #AcquisitionReform #AcquisitionAI

Honored that Armada was named a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company! ?? We’re tackling some of the world’s toughest challenges and bridging the digital divide—delivering advanced compute, connectivity, and real-world AI to the most remote environments. We’re building the hyperscaler for the remote edge. In our first two years, we have created strategic partnerships with companies like Microsoft, Starlink, NVIDIA, and others, and have customers in more than 60 different countries. Armada is growing quickly and looking for world-class talent. If you're the best at what you do and ready to push boundaries with one of the most innovative companies in the world, explore our open roles here -> https://lnkd.in/gpwVXi-v.

Tab through February's ON&T Magazine—NAVAL DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE—for the latest NEWS, VIEWS, & INSIGHTS on the tactical application of the latest ocean technologies delivering strategic advantage on the battlefield. This month, we sat down with Tom Reynolds, Seasats' Chief Strategy Officer, to learn more about how the company is scaling efforts to manufacture low-cost, modular ASVs to execute long-range autonomous ocean-based research and surveillance work in increasingly remote marine environments. Read the ON&T interview with the link in the comments ?? #navaldefense #maritimesecurity #autonomoussystems

We have made contact with Clarity-1! ??? After our deployment at approximately 1:49 am MT, we successfully made first contact with Clare approximately 3 hours later at 5:11 am MT. Commands and telemetry are flowing; all systems nominal. Our Mission Operations team will continue to commission Clarity-1 over the next couple of weeks. Stay locked in for updates! First contact, first mission, first satellite that will operate in VLEO - whole lotta firsts??

We published our 2024 investor update today to share what defines Vannevar Labs. In 2019, Brett Granberg and I got started to bring the best in American engineering to top national security problems. The problem we chose was competition with China. Lots of next generation defense companies and traditional players are building for the ‘fight tonight’ scenario. We are building for US advantage in the critical contests happening with China today to prevent this scenario. Because of our focus on competition, everything we build is deployed immediately in operations. Our technologies span the need to 1) sense—collect the right data for competition, 2) decide—make that data actionable for competition using AI and other technologies, and 3) act—deliver effects in competition. This strategy has paid off. Over the past few years, we’ve gone from $3M to $80M in revenue, 1 product to many, unprofitable to profitable, ~30 people to ~200. We've done this while spending only $12M of venture capital since 2019. As of October last year, we were valued at $1.5B, making us the most capital efficient defense unicorn, likely by an order of magnitude. Now we’re taking bigger swings in missions that are critical to the current competition: cyber, economic warfare, and sensing. This means building new technologies and business units and expanding our leadership team to go after these missions. The country needs a defense prime building technology to win the competition with China. We intend to be that prime. If you share our commitment to this mission—join us. The time is now.