Awesome day for a national security hackathon. Kudos to Maggie at Shield Capital and Cerebral Valley for organizing at the incredible SHACK15 space! Great set of judges from across gov’t, industry, and academia. It’s a good day to build!
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Excited to announce #1 of 4 tracks for this weekend's Defense Tech hackathon at SHACK15

TRACK 1: NEXT GENERATION INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS 🌐

In partnership with Shield Capital + sponsored by Founders Fund, Anduril Industries. Vannevar Labs, IQT Labs and more...

More below 👇

in DC 🇺🇸 last week talking

hot takes on defense tech
dual use
why, when, and how to pursue 🗽USG🏛

non-dilutive capital sources
harder to find alpha in defense tech today, but even more momentum coming

Rothzeid Shield Capital | Pennington Munich Re Ventures | Frederick @ Sands Capital

Still time to register for the upcoming Silicon Valley National Security Hackathon on May 4th-5th at SHACK15!

Anduril Industries Founders Fund IQT Labs Vannevar Labs Stanford Gordian Knot Center

Congratulations team Apex 🛰 for demonstrating the end-to-end performance of the spacecraft, from power to communications. #MissionMatters #space #SpaceSelfie

2024 #NISB Summit | Lessons Learned From New #Innovation Initiatives

Moderator: Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta

Panelists:
ASA(ALT)'s Hon. Doug Bush
Shield Capital's Raj Shah
U.S. Air Force's Gen. James Slife
Former Chairman of Armed Services GOP, Rep. Mac Thornberry

Watch live:

.Shield Capital is honored to welcome Denis Bovin to its National Security Advisory Board. With 5 decades of experience in finance, aerospace and defense, and national security policy, Denis brings invaluable perspective and expertise to the SHIELD team.
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Great to see so much attention on where #nationalsecurity and commercial #technology converge. This is where the #MissionMatters Elizabeth Dwoskin The Washington Post
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.Shield Capital is proud to be part of the team backing Armada

#MissionMatters #AI

The relationship between U.S. defense and Silicon Valley is undergoing its most profound transformation since the 1950s.

I spoke to 5 investors to get their thoughts on this historic shift: Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼), Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸, David Ulevitch 🇺🇸, Raj Shah & Josh Manchester techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/def…

Listen in as Shield Capital's on Michael Brown shares his thoughts on how the Hedge Strategy is critical to meet the #Replicator 's goals of scaling UXS for #nationalsecurity . With Lorin Selby and steve blank. Great conversation John Sorensen RealClearDefense

Want to join our team as we work to advance trustworthy #AI as the global standard? Howso is #hiring :
🌟 A Raleigh-based Senior Sales Development Rep
🌟 A remote Developer Evangelist
🌟 A Raleigh-based Front End Developer

Learn about our open roles at apply.workable.com/howso/

Sizing up the boom in defense tech |PitchBook

“US-based companies in the category collected nearly $100 billion in VC funding from 2021 to now, a figure that's about 40% higher than what was invested in the seven prior years combined” pitchbook.com/news/articles/…

Thanks for the call out SuperbCrew.com

Check out Ryan Evans War on the Rocks conversation w/ Shield Capital 's Managing Partner, Raj Shah (Air Force Pilot, entrepreneur, investor) on what is happening at the intersection of commercial #technology and #nationalsecurity .

.Shield Capital announced the close of its inaugural fund focused on early stage investments in #AI #autonomy #cybersecurity and #space . The fund closed 55% above target w/ $186M in capital commitments. Learn more about why the #MissionMatters . #defensetech shieldcap.com/announcements/…

How Silicon Valley is helping the Pentagon in the AI arms race

The US military is opening up to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare

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What’s happened in Ukraine has been a game-changer. More commercial tech is being used than during any other conflict. That has got the wheels turning for the US military, which is saying we need to adopt far more of this.

-Mike Brown Shield Capital and former DefenseInnovationUnit director.