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Exostar: The rivals who built a shared front door
Aircraft makers compete fiercely. Their suppliers still need a safe way to work with all of them. Exostar turned that awkward arrangement into a business spanning defense contracts, clinical trials and electronic prescriptions.
Corey Hulen and the Software That Refuses to Leave the Room
After years inside proprietary enterprise software, Corey Hulen made a sharp turn toward open source. The result is a career built around a plain but demanding idea: the people doing critical work should control the place where they talk about it.
Leigh Dow Learned to Market What Cannot Fail
From a Florida governor's communications office to Mattermost's first C-suite marketing post, Leigh Dow has built a career translating complicated systems for people who cannot afford confusion.
The $1.5 Billion Data Room That Wants to Run the Whole Deal
Intralinks helped replace couriers, binders and guarded rooms with a browser. Thirty years later, it is betting that security, workflow and AI can turn that original wedge into the operating system for high-stakes finance.
OnBoard Turned the World's Most Expensive Meeting Into a Software Workflow
A failed dorm-room auction, $100,000 from a first customer, and one useful pivot produced a board portal used by thousands of organizations. Its next test is whether directors will trust AI with the most sensitive reading packet in the building.
Ian Tien Lost 26 GB of Company Memory - Then Built Mattermost
A broken chat service trapped his game studio's data. Ian Tien turned that frustration into an open-source collaboration company now built for teams that cannot afford to lose control.
Nicholas Stamos Has Spent a Career Teaching Sensitive Files Some Manners
From clinical-trial software to Digital Guardian to eSHARE, the Tufts-trained engineer keeps returning to one stubborn question: how can important information move without slipping out of its owner’s control?
The Bank Vault Went Digital, and a Charlotte Lifer Held the Only Key
Ron Daly spent nearly four decades inside the financial industry before deciding its biggest problem was a filing cabinet. His answer was a digital safe deposit box that even the bank cannot open.
Istari Digital
Istari Digital is a Cambridge, Massachusetts software company building a digital engineering platform that connects fragmented engineering data - models, simulations, requirements and test artifacts - across teams, suppliers and classified environments. Founded in 2022 by former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, the company aims to let regulated industries like aerospace and defense validate, secure and certify complex systems in minutes instead of months. Its flagship effort, Flyer One, is working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to make a modified X-56A the world's first digitally certified aircraft.
Seclore
Seclore is a data-centric security company that protects sensitive files and emails wherever they travel - across any user, device, app, or cloud. Its browser-based ARMOR platform unifies Data Security Posture Management, AI-powered Data Loss Prevention, data classification, and Enterprise Digital Rights Management so organizations keep persistent, granular control over data even after it leaves their walls. Founded in India in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Seclore serves more than 2,000 enterprises and government bodies across roughly 29 countries.