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Grant Demaree Turned a Three-Month Planning Lag Into Onebrief
In Liberia, the virus moved faster than the planning process. The former Army officer built Onebrief around a stubborn question: how much better could military decisions become if the software finally kept up?
Irina Denisenko
Irina Denisenko is the co-founder and CEO of Knox Systems, an Austin-based cybersecurity company that delivers 'FedRAMP as a Service' to help commercial software vendors get authorized to sell to the U.S. government in roughly 90 days instead of years. She started Knox in 2023 after living through the FedRAMP bottleneck herself as COO of Class Technologies, where she scaled the company to $50M in ARR. A repeat operator who also helped build drone company PrecisionHawk, Denisenko positions Knox as a challenger to Palantir's FedStart, backed by Felicis Ventures and roughly $31.5M in total funding.