The Guts to Try

Discover our network of startups committed to solving tough problems
in government, national security, and defense.

Showing 17 companies
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11 - 50 employees

Aloft unifies the mission, aircraft, and data to make drone operations safe and reliable. Aloft streamlines the disconnected collection of tools and technologies into a unified drone operation that makes flight safer and more valuable. They offer a full stack solution with web tools, API integrations, custom webhooks, and support services to get you up and running fast

Administrative Services
Consumer Products
DeepTech
Government and Military
Hardware
Security
Software
Transportation
11 - 50 employees
Series A

Asylon is the only full-service Air + Ground robotic perimeter security company. With more than 40,000 missions completed for customers, we provide a fully comprehensive program and customer experience that is second to none. From the beginning, our team set out to solve the issue of antiquated, time-consuming, and costly systems. In response, we’ve worked to build the world’s most advanced robotic security platform and service operation. The software and hardware we’ve developed and the work we’re continuing to do is constantly pushing the boundaries of security robotics and automation for our customers and partners.

Lending and Investments
11 - 50 employees

Decisive Point is a venture capital firm investing in deep-tech innovations for security, health, energy, and infrastructure. Our mission is to support the people solving tomorrow’s toughest challenges. We amplify outcomes by pairing thoughtful capital allocation with expertise in public R&D funding and navigating the federal market.

Consumer Products
Data and Analytics
DeepTech
Hardware
Mobile, Platforms, and Apps
Software
51 - 200 employees
Series B

Edge Impulse is the platform for developing intelligent devices using embedded machine learning (TinyML).

EpiSci
EpiSci
19 jobs
Data and Analytics
DeepTech
51 - 200 employees

EpiSci is a multidisciplinary innovation company that designs next-generation artificially intelligent solutions for a secure, autonomous future. Through years of high-risk, high-payoff research and development efforts sponsored from DARPA and other agencies, EpiSci develops its Tactical Artificial Intelligence technology to deliver trusted, disruptive autonomous systems that are safe, resilient, and reliable. EpiSci's innovations include fully autonomous UAV swarms, AI-based signal detection and classification systems, resilient and intelligent tactical networks, and adaptive machine learning techniques.

Firestorm
Firestorm
5 jobs
Manufacturing
Transportation
11 - 50 employees

We are building the future of modular open-source architecture supporting the Department of Defense requirements to create "Low-Cost Affordable Mass". Firestorm will redefine military expectations for onsite modularity to support the widest array of mission areas.

DeepTech
Transportation
11 - 50 employees

Flightwave Aerospace Systems is a developer of unmanned aerial systems that use carbon-free energy sources to extend the range and endurance of aerospace vehicles ranging from small UAVs to spacecraft. The company's systems enable aerial operations in any condition for asset protection, mapping the environment, or wildlife monitoring, allowing clients to execute and plan missions with ease. Their exclusive thrust-vector control spans multi-rotor and fixed-wing flight, allowing for seamless transitions without pilot input or manual control.

DeepTech
Transportation
11 - 50 employees

Personal flight is one of humanity's most enduring aspirations, but has historically only been available to a privileged few with the money, time and skill to fly traditional aircraft. We're making the joy and utility of personal, vertical flight accessible to everyone.

Data and Analytics
DeepTech
Software
Transportation
51 - 200 employees

Pendulum Systems (formerly known as Macro-Eyes) is a venture-backed global technology company that swings into action to solve one of the world's most pressing problems. How to get more from less? Just like the pendulum leverages physics to amplify small movements into larger ones, we leverage our AI-driven solutions to amplify the impact of each resource available to an organization. Because improving a single number - what you send where and when - changes everything at scale. Pendulum Systems is at work for corporations and governments across 10+ countries - slashing waste and improving unit economics.

Content and Publishing
Data and Analytics
Government and Military
Media
Software
1 - 10 employees
Seed

Omelas brings together the world's best developers from Google, Facebook, RedHat, PwC and more with field-defining experts in defense, diplomacy, and intelligence to prevent the violence we've seen tear apart communities, stymie development, and spread suffering across the world. We began by applying the tech advertisers use to understand why people become loyal to brands to understand why people become loyal terrorist groups. With foiled attacks and presentations before four national intelligence chiefs under our belts, we expanded to propaganda of al kinds and then to violence of all kinds.

Pison
Pison
25 jobs

Pison is collecting and classifying data from the most valuable source in the world, the human body. Pison's platform leverages our patented electroneurography (ENG) platform to translate data generated from our body’s natural physiological electricity stemming at the brain into machine interpretable events in software. This allows for never before seen intuitive control of any experience in the IoT universe and discovery of neurological correlations drawn from our proprietary AI and data sets. Investors and partners include First Round DRF, Oculus, MIT, Draper, HHS, National Science Foundation, Bose Ventures, and In-Q-Tel.

Radiant
Radiant
13 jobs
Energy
Sustainability
51 - 200 employees
Series B

Radiant is a clean energy startup building a nuclear microreactor. A climate-friendly alternative to diesel generators, Radiant's Kaleidos 1MW microreactor will be the world's first portable, zero-emissions power source that works anywhere. We plan to test our development reactor by 2026 and if successful, it will be the first new commercial reactor design to achieve a fueled test in over 50 years. Our microreactor can bring power to remote parts of the world and provide backup power for life-saving applications in hospitals or disaster-relief scenarios.