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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.
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.
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.