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Osparna

Investor / VC · Reston, VA

Private investment intelligence platform.Osparna: Old Hebrew — with all diligence. The name is the thesis — not partial diligence, not convenient diligence. With all diligence: look at the full distribution of where talent lives, not just where the standard pipeline looks.

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The DMV is built around a single fact: it's the seat of the federal government, and the intelligence and defense agencies headquartered there are the region's actual economic anchor, not a side industry. Georgetown, George Mason, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins up in Baltimore all feed a workforce that skews toward cleared, government-adjacent technical work most other regions don't have.

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Region Stats

Total firms 402

VC / investors 89

Companies 287

Schools 26

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Defense

Intelligence

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