Frank DiMeo (fmr IQT, worked with Troy Pearsall) is Founder and Principal. Materials science background from IQT. Does AI work. Small firm.

Defense tech: modular guidance technology for GPS-independent precision strikes. Herndon VA. Lavrock led $3M seed Oct 2025. Exited stealth Oct 2025. Ultra-low cost long-range precision weapons — converts unguided munitions.

Hardened collaborative workspace for cybersecurity teams — collaboration platform for IC/defense. Columbia MD. DataTribe portfolio (Fund III). Raised $3M seed Dec 2022.

Government tech services. Founded by Jim Hunt after 8yr as government scientist (mid-70s to mid-80s). Merged with BTG Inc 1991.

AI/ML platform for defense and national security applications. Winchester VA. DataTribe portfolio.

McLean VA. Global management and technology consulting firm. $10B+ revenue. Major IC/DOD contractor. Omar Balkissoon early career. Parsa Haroutunian, Seerist connection. One of largest employers in DMV national security corridor.

Hypersonic weapons manufacturing company. Herndon VA. Lavrock early backer. Raised $350M Series B Dec 2025 led by Altimeter + Lightspeed. Lavrock unicorn #2. Blackbeard program + Project Ranger. Mass-production approach to hypersonics.

Underwater technology — sonar, mapping, ROV systems. Annapolis MD. NASDAQ listed. Marine and defense applications.

IQT Lab for commercial space and ML for remote sensing. Helps IC leverage commercial satellite imagery and open source ML. Co-founded by Todd Stavish and Ryan Lewis 2015.

Arlington VA. Electronic warfare technology startup. Point72 Ventures Series A $31M lead (May 2024). Builds software-defined electronic warfare systems for DoD. Addresses growing EW threat environment. Defense-first company — mission software for the electromagnetic spectrum.

Machine learning decision systems and analytics consultancy founded by Matthew McKnight in 2015, after leaving Noblis. Preceded Osparna in Matt's entrepreneurial career.

Industrial cybersecurity company. Co-founded by former NSA cybersecurity experts. OT/ICS threat detection platform — protects industrial control systems for energy, manufacturing, water. DataTribe backed at seed stage. Valued at $1.7B in 2021 Series D. THE canonical DataTribe exit — "reverse IQT" model: government talent → commercial product.

Arlington VA. AI and offensive security testing. IQT portfolio. Red-teaming AI systems — adversarial ML, model vulnerabilities, AI safety testing for national security applications. Emerging company at the intersection of AI security and red team operations.

McLean VA. Invisible watermarking for documents and content — individualized steganographic marks to detect leaks and identify the source. IQT Spring 2025 investment. Critical for IC document security and insider threat detection. Each recipient gets a uniquely marked copy.

Homomorphic encryption company — enables computation on encrypted data without decrypting it. Founded by Ellison Anne Williams (fmr NSA mathematician). Fulton MD. DataTribe portfolio. Privacy-preserving analytics for IC and financial sector.

AI-powered global threat and risk assessment platform. Founded by Omar Balkissoon. Applied AI + human analysis for national security and corporate intelligence. $100M IDIQ US government contract. Merged ML backbone (Hyperion) into Seerist (2022 JV with Control Risks). General Catalyst partner David Orfao on board.

Google's federal/IC division. Rob Painter was Chief Technologist and Senior Manager — applied Google Enterprise solutions to intelligence, defense, and homeland security agencies. Led Google Earth and Google SketchUp federal deployments.

Government IT services firm. HQ Reston VA. Carl Fyffe is Cloud Engineer based in Winter Garden FL — distributed workforce. National footprint.

RF geospatial analytics and space-based signal intelligence. Rob Painter was Board member (Razor's Edge portfolio). Commercial space + signals intelligence — direct national security relevance.

Digital identity verification platform. McLean VA. Lavrock Ventures portfolio — one of 3 Lavrock unicorns. Trusted by 100M+ Americans for government benefit verification, IRS, SSA, VA, 50+ states. Founder: Blake Hall (fmr US Army Ranger). The canonical IC/defense-meets-consumer identity play.