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NetImpact Strategies and the Art of Keeping the Old Machine Running
Government software rarely gets the luxury of a clean slate. NetImpact Strategies has built a business around the less glamorous question: what can you improve while the mission keeps moving?
Ardoq
Ardoq is a Norwegian enterprise architecture software company that helps large organizations map, understand, and transform their technology and business landscapes. Its cloud-based, graph-powered platform turns tangled application portfolios, data flows, and business capabilities into living, queryable models so leaders can plan cloud migrations, rationalize applications, manage risk, and steer digital transformation with current data rather than static diagrams. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Oslo, Ardoq serves more than 400 enterprises worldwide and has pushed toward an AI-first approach that reasons over the architecture graph.
CoreStory
CoreStory is a San Francisco-area AI startup building a persistent 'spec layer' for software. Its Code-to-Spec platform ingests legacy codebases - the COBOL and decades-old systems running banks, airlines, Social Security and Medicare - and turns millions of lines of undocumented code into living, queryable specifications that both humans and AI coding agents can read. Founded by Anand Kulkarni, the company raised a $32M Series A in October 2025 to make the world's aging software understandable again, reporting up to 50% reductions in development time and a Microsoft-validated 51% accuracy boost for AI agents fed its specs.
Rhino.ai
Rhino.ai is a Washington, D.C.-based enterprise AI platform that reconstructs the hidden business logic buried inside legacy code, ERP systems, SaaS tools, workflows, and integrations. Using agentic AI paired with human expertise, it discovers and maps business rules, organizes them into a governed, version-controlled logic graph built on its proprietary Universal Application Notation (UAN), and uses that single source of truth to accelerate modernization and application development. Founded in 2023 by Adam Branch, the company raised a $50M Series A in January 2025 led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with KPMG as a strategic minority investor.