# Vannevar Labs

> Vannevar Labs builds AI-enabled software and sensing systems for U.S. national-security teams. Its defining method is less glamorous than the phrase 'defense AI' suggests: embed engineers with operators, find one urgent job, ship a narrow tool, and expand only after it proves useful. That approach turned a two-person search prototype into Decrypt, helped produce Serra and mission-specific AI agents, and culminated in a Defense Innovation Unit production contract with a potential $99 million ceiling.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Founders:** Brett Granberg (Co-founder and CEO), Nini Hamrick (Co-founder and President)
- **Products:** Decrypt, Serra, Mission-specific AI agents, Integrated sensing and tactical-edge systems
- **Notable:** Expanded Decrypt from one deployment to roughly a dozen adoptions by August 2021., Deployed products at more than 15 military bases worldwide in the 12 months preceding its January 2023 Series B., Raised more than $90 million in disclosed venture funding by January 2023.

## Products & services

- **Decrypt** — An AI-assisted intelligence platform that searches, translates and analyzes foreign-language and open-source information for military and foreign-policy users.
- **Serra** — A collection and analysis product for non-traditional and geospatial intelligence, developed through forward-deployed work with operational users.
- **Mission-specific AI agents** — Agentic systems trained on national-security data to model adversary behavior, accelerate analysis and recommend mission-relevant actions while keeping human judgment in the loop.
- **Integrated sensing and tactical-edge systems** — Software-hardware capabilities that enrich sensor and battle-track data and deliver analysis in constrained or disconnected environments.

## Achievements

- Expanded Decrypt from one deployment to roughly a dozen adoptions by August 2021.
- Deployed products at more than 15 military bases worldwide in the 12 months preceding its January 2023 Series B.
- Raised more than $90 million in disclosed venture funding by January 2023.
- Transitioned a DIU prototype into a 2024 production agreement with a potential $99 million ceiling and $16 million obligated at award.
- Reported more than 125 deployments across every U.S. service branch and combatant command by 2026.
- Built a national-security dataset reported at more than one petabyte and growing by roughly 10 terabytes each week by late 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Vannevar and SMX announced a strategic partnership to bring mission-specific warfighting agents to combatant commands and selected federal agencies.
- **2026-03** — President and co-founder Nini Hamrick described the company's operator-builder leadership bench and said its footprint spans every combatant command.
- **2026-01** — Vannevar appointed Eric Ransom chief legal officer and said it planned to unify its AI and agentic capabilities into a broader mission-tailored platform.
- **2025-10** — At Bloomberg's defense technology event, Vannevar described a proprietary dataset exceeding one petabyte and growing by about 10 terabytes per week.
- **2025-08** — The company supported AFRICOM and partner nations at the West Africa Logistics Conference with AI-assisted mapping of logistics infrastructure.
- **2024-11** — DIU transitioned Vannevar's prototype work to a production contract with a potential $99 million ceiling.

## Links

- Website: https://www.vannevarlabs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vannevar-labs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/vannevarlabs

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Last updated: 2026-09-28