Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

StirlingX develops a sovereign intelligence and autonomy platform that captures, secures, fuses, analyses and enables action on data from complex and contested environments; it is publicly described as a data intelligence provider "disguised as a drone company." The company serves defence and critical national infrastructure customers with use cases including surveying, mapping, monitoring infrastructure and detecting and countering hostile drones. StirlingX is chaired by the former Director of GCHQ and led by CEO and founder Dean Jones. It recently raised an $11 million Seed round and has just closed a $20 million Series A to accelerate product development and international expansion. The company cites traction with partners across Five Eyes and defence ministries and agencies and intends to scale with new and existing partners to support complex missions.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2022

Strider Technologies provides strategic intelligence through an AI-driven integrated global intelligence platform that turns publicly available data into actionable insights. The company leverages proprietary methodologies alongside AI to help organizations secure and advance their technology and innovation. Led by CEO Greg Levesque, Strider focuses on identifying risks including state-sponsored intellectual property theft, targeted talent acquisition, and supply-chain vulnerabilities. It operates in 10 countries and maintains offices in Washington, DC, Tokyo, and London. The company plans to advance its AI capabilities, expand operations into Europe and Asia, and more aggressively target the public sector market. Strider recently completed a financing that strengthens its balance sheet to support those initiatives. Strider Technologies offers a proprietary strategic intelligence platform and data that enable Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and research institutions to identify, manage, and respond to nation-state-directed activities targeting personnel, intellectual property and supply chains. Led by CEO Greg Levesque, the company combines intelligence specialists, data scientists, and software engineers to deliver its products. It operates in Salt Lake City, Utah; Washington, D.C.; and London, U.K. The company raised $45M in a Series B to expand its capabilities. Strider plans to use the funding to enhance existing products, introduce new capabilities, expand its geographic presence to support demand across industry and government markets, and grow its team of intelligence specialists, data scientists, software engineers, and professional and operational support staff. Costa Saab of Valor Equity Partners will join Strider’s board following the round. Strider Technologies develops the Strider Intelligence Platform to help companies protect intellectual property from cyber attacks. The year-old startup has operations in D.C. and Utah. It closed a $10 million Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies. Ottawa-based One9 Ventures participated alongside existing investor DataTribe. The company will use the funding for product research and development and to launch new features for its flagship platform. Strider is also working on a new data-driven product to help organizations identify high-risk activity within their systems. Michael Palmer, president of i360 (a Koch Industries subsidiary), joined Strider’s board as part of the round. Strider provides a software-as-a-service risk intelligence platform that leverages proprietary datasets, machine learning and human intelligence to illuminate economic espionage risks beyond the cyber domain. The system is being used by Fortune 500 companies to illuminate employee, third-party ecosystem, and industry risks related to nation‑state directed activities. Its insights help organizations better safeguard employees, protect intellectual property, and secure long-term competitiveness. The company said it will use the funding to expand its team and infrastructure. Strider was co-founded by Greg Levesque (CEO), Eric Levesque (Chief Strategy Officer) and Michael A. Brown (Chief Technology Officer). The article reports a $2M funding round led by DataTribe.