22 Years of Technology, Innovation, Learning, Gaps, and Opportunities By: Brandon Shelton, Managing Partner On this 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 we give pause and reflect on…
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In recent years, the US has shifted its defense strategy from building heavy hardware — such as tanks, ships, and aircraft — to investing in disruptive technologies that have the…
When U.S. software firms consider their primary markets, many largely avoid the defense sector. That’s true whether they are established tech companies or early-stage startups. The reasons are clear: Pentagon…
VC is a crucial accelerant for startups to scale their operations, further develop products and services, and enter new markets. The business of venture capital requires identifying unmet opportunities and…
Defense tech as an investment vertical has been lying dormant for many years, slowed down by an industry notoriously hard to penetrate, innovate, and disrupt. The 1950’s gave us nuclear…
The Soviets shook the world in 1957 when they launched a beachball-sized satellite into space. This “Sputnik moment” showed America it was falling behind its Cold War rival, so in…
Addressing USSOCOM’s commander, Gen. Bryan Fenton, and delegates at the inaugural SOF Week conference in Tampa, Fla., last week, the panel described how the commercial market and small-medium enterprises (SMEs)…
While the dangers of online hate have affected society since the early days of dial-up internet, the past 25 years have demonstrated that waiting until after harms occur to implement…
For the past few years, we’ve heard the same criticism from institutional investors: Venture capital firms are too fast with their deployment of capital, often at the expense of diligence…
Shortly after the final space-shuttle mission in 2012, an eccentric entrepreneur named Elon Musk appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and made the case for exploring outer space. America was still…
