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$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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2015
CEO and Board Member
2015
HawkEye 360, Inc. is developing a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) capable of detecting wireless signals that can be used to track and monitor global transportation networks, assist with emergencies, provide data analytics and reporting services for maritime situational awareness, and offer an efficient means of mapping wireless spectrum usage.
2021
Venture Partner
2021
Venture partner at strategic venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies with innovative dual-use technologies supporting U.S. national security and commercial customers.
2015 - 2018
Board Member
2015 - 2018
BridgeSat has designed an optical connectivity system that aims to improve the wireless transfer of data from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The system provides an alternative transmission mechanism that is designed to be faster, more secure and available at a lower cost to traditional radio-frequency transmissions, while meeting the constrained size, weight and power requirements inherent with small satellite operations. BridgeSat technology was invented in partnership with The Aerospace Corporation. The company is collaborating with Draper Laboratory, as well as with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Dr. Kerri L. Cahoy, and the graduate student team in the Space, Telecommunications, Astronomy, and Radiation (STAR) Laboratory, to help expand development of its system.
2011 - 2018
Board Advisor
2011 - 2018
Allied Minds Federal Innovations, Inc. (AMFI) has been established to form Public-Private Partnerships with U.S. Department of Defense's powerful R&D laboratories and other U.S. Government agencies to commercialize their inventions and innovations. This marks the first public-private partnership formed between DoD and a U.S. private investment firm dedicated to commercializing government inventions.
2014 - 2017
CEO & Board Member
2014 - 2017
Percipient Networks provides a comprehensive active defense approach for protecting a company's assets targeted by advanced persistent threats. Percipient's active defense tools help decrease time of detection and increase network defenders' effectiveness by systemizing the threat intelligence process. STRONGARM, invented at The MITRE Corp., delivers the first attack mitigation product that allows network defenders to identify victims, take control of adversary accesses and conduct deep analysis of adversary targets.
2014 - 2016
General Manager & Board Member
2014 - 2016
Whitewood Encryption Systems seeks to meet emerging business requirements for high throughput, high security cryptography by developing next-generation systems of scalable, cost-effective, and low-latency data encryption. Whitewood's initial products, which include a quantum random number generator and a system of quantum key management, are expected to offer unprecedented levels of speed and security for data encryption by providing a quantum physics-based alternative to legacy classical cryptography capabilities. More information about the company can be found at www.whitewoodencryption.com.
2013 - 2016
General Manager & Board Member
2013 - 2016
Foreland Technologies is a cyber security platform company for the discovery, incubation and commercialization of emerging technologies. Investments include Percipient Networks producing innovative security technologies for enterprise network defense, and Whitewood Encryption Systems, producing next-generation systems of quantum cryptography.
2012 - 2016
Board Member
2012 - 2016
The last decade of research into wireless communications has matured the concept of cognitive radio technologies into a set of useful building blocks that will be the critical enabling technology for realizing the performance of 5G. Federated Wireless builds on its in-house world-class expertise in cognitive radio by leveraging advanced analytics to enhance the performance of mobile broadband networks, improving their efficiency and capacity and optimizing the flow of data. We address the dynamic changing needs of communications from a unique and proprietary perspective of supply, demand, and distribution of data.
2012 - 2016
Board Member
2012 - 2016
Optio Labs creates, optimizes, and productizes transformational security and productivity technologies for the mobile enterprise and embedded systems. Our vision is to become the world’s leading development engine for the conceptualization, invention and commercialization of disruptive, time-sensitive and relevant mobile technologies for today’s rapidly evolving environment.
2011 - 2016
Senior Vice President
2011 - 2016
Allied Minds is the premier private investment innovation company that forms, funds, manages and builds startups based on early-stage technology originating from U.S. universities and federally funded research institutions. We created a new business model for overcoming early-stage development gap between basic research and commercial development. Our investors are aligned with our vision that cutting-edge invention is an attractive, yet under-developed, asset class. We review countless ideas but only select breakthroughs with potential to deliver outsized returns. We create subsidiaries led by seasoned management who know how to turn academic breakthroughs into commercial products and then take them to market. We provide our subsidiaries with capital resources, from seed to self-sustainment. Our aim is to promote growth, generate jobs, foster innovation and create substantive societal benefit.