Operating Company

Brandefy

Operating Company , VA

Beauty/cosmetics "dupe" comparison app plus own product line. HQ Richmond VA. Topped the RVA 25 fastest-growing-companies list (2023).

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About DMV

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.

Region Stats

Total firms 386

VC / investors 71

Companies 289

Universities 26

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Defense

Intelligence

Technology Capital