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Legion Intelligence
Legion Intelligence is a San Francisco company building a governed, agentic AI platform for national security and regulated enterprises. Formerly Yurts, it lets defense agencies and Fortune 500 teams deploy and orchestrate AI agents across cloud, on-prem, air-gapped, and classified networks (IL-2 through IL-6) using any large language model, with human-in-the-loop control and full auditability. Its platform has been fielded at U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Army, and the Department of Energy, where it cut intelligence-summary creation time by 94% and saved staff hundreds of hours per week.
Jordan Bramble
Jordan Bramble is the co-founder and CEO of Antares Nuclear (Antares Industries), a Torrance, California company building factory-produced, transportable fission microreactors of up to 1 MW for defense, remote industrial, and space applications. A systems engineer and physicist who did a stint in federal policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Bramble started Antares in 2023 on a contrarian bet: instead of chasing the commercial grid on price, sell nuclear's unique capability to customers who need power where the grid and diesel can't reach. Under his leadership Antares raised more than $130 million, built out a 145,000-square-foot factory, and in June 2026 became the first private company to bring an advanced reactor - its Mark-0 - to criticality under the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program. His stated ambition is to make energy abundant 'from Earth to the Asteroid Belt.'
Sumit Agarwal
Sumit Agarwal is the CEO and co-founder of Ario, a Palo Alto AI assistant that takes aim at the 'invisible labor' of running a household - the school calendars, the returns, the meal planning. Before Ario he co-founded Shape Security, a fraud-prevention company F5 acquired for more than $1 billion. Earlier he was the youngest-ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, a retired US Air Force major and one of the first officers in network warfare at Cyber Command, and ran mobile operations at Google. Ario raised $16 million in seed funding in June 2024 from Floodgate, Wing Venture Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Moxxie.
Jericho Security
Jericho Security is a New York-based cybersecurity company that uses generative AI to defend organizations against AI-powered attacks. Its platform runs hyper-realistic, AI-generated phishing, voice-clone, and deepfake simulations to train employees, then measures human risk through a dashboard of analytics and KPIs. Founded in 2023, the company pits an AI 'red team' against an AI 'blue team' to find and close the gaps attackers now exploit at machine speed - an approach it sums up as fighting AI with AI.
VIA
VIA (VIA Science, Inc.) is a Somerville, Massachusetts Web3 company building a decentralized, quantum-resistant, passwordless platform that lets governments and enterprises share and analyze sensitive data without exposing it. Backed by 18 issued patents, VIA is the first blockchain application to earn U.S. Department of Defense-wide cybersecurity accreditation, and its tools protect data and identities for the DoD, Fortune 100 firms, and energy utilities worldwide.