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Live Wire’s Quiet Trick: Turn Experts Into Headlines
A boutique Arlington agency built a business by making other people quotable. Its proof is not a slogan but a trail of interviews, executive rehearsals, videos, and one striking leap from 300 media hits to more than 11,000.
The People You Call When the Plan Meets the Crowd
DigiGeeks Collective sells something more useful than another campaign deck: a trusted bench of specialists that can appear when a mission-driven team suddenly needs more hands, more range, or both.
Breck Inc. Built a Business in the Bureaucracy's Blind Spot
The Arlington firm found an unglamorous, consequential niche: making government information clear, useful, and accessible before the deadline becomes a crisis.
Iyad Tarazi Is Teaching the Airwaves to Share
He left a vast telecom organization for a startup with two scientists and a difficult idea: let radios share. A decade later, Iyad Tarazi is applying the same instinct to AI, physics and the stubborn economics of wireless networks.
Higher Logic
Engagement is changing. Make every connection count.
Bo Davis
Bo Davis is the co-founder and CEO of MarginEdge, an Arlington, Virginia restaurant management and bill-payment platform he launched in 2015 with fellow restaurateur Roy Phillips. Before software, Davis ran restaurants - he founded Wasabi, a group of conveyor-belt sushi spots in D.C. and Boston. Before restaurants, he sold an education software company, Prometheus, to Blackboard in 2002 and served in the Peace Corps in Macedonia. MarginEdge, which turns a shoebox of restaurant invoices into real-time cost data, has raised more than $120 million and serves thousands of restaurants across North America.
Rune Technologies
Rune Technologies is an Arlington, Virginia defense software company building TyrOS, an AI-enabled, edge-first logistics platform for the U.S. military. Founded in 2024 by Anduril alumni David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough, Rune aims to replace the spreadsheets and whiteboards that still run military sustainment with predictive software that forecasts supply needs, recommends transport, and keeps working in communications-denied, contested environments. It has raised more than $30 million and deployed with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps.
Neil Sobin
Neil Sobin is the founder and CEO of Quartermaster, an Arlington, Virginia company turning working ships into sensing nodes for a global maritime intelligence network. Its SmartMast hardware bolts weather-hardened cameras and radios onto vessel masts, runs AI at the edge, and stitches the feeds into a live picture of the open ocean. After building distributed networks at Hivemapper and AI infrastructure at Scale AI, Sobin raised a $43M Series A in May 2026 co-led by First Round Capital and Quiet Capital, with more than 600 vessels already covering 10 million square miles and assisting 20-plus rescues.