ONE9 SMFI Portfolio company, goTenna, announced today they were awarded a $15M AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop Commercial Off-The-Shelf (CoTS) capabilities to enable communications connectivity solutions for the U.S Air Force.

Every so often a company is built that transforms an industry or creates a new one. Strider is well on their way to becoming, as their Series C lead investor Pelion Ventures describes them, a "generational company".

The increased economic security risks in Asia and around the globe require cutting-edge solutions to illuminate the threats to companies, academic institutions, and governments alike. This is why Strider is one of the fastest-growing data companies in the US, and is rapidly increasing its international footprint.

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World-class companies attract world-class talent. ONE9 portfolio company and leading provider of strategic intelligence, Strider Technologies, announced today that David Vigneault, former Director of CSIS, is joining the company as Managing Director of the Global Intelligence Unit.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — prnewswire.com — ONE9 Special Mission Fund I (ONE9) has chosen goTenna as its first investment after the Fund's initial close. goTenna specializes in communications solutions in off-grid, remote, and denied environments, offering rugged and portable devices that enable long-range and peer-to-peer communications via radio waves and proprietary mesh networking technology.

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA — businesswire.com — AeroVironment’s unmanned systems paired with Tomahawk Robotics’ AI-enabled technology will allow warfighters to operate various connected robotic solutions in the battlefield and share information between multiple domains with one common controller

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — freethink.com — “Our mask is designed to be lightweight, low burden, and allow you to operate in those high probability, medium threat environments.” —Arjun Grewal, CEO - Ventus Respiratory Technologies

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — newswire.ca — ONE9 Special Mission Fund I ("ONE9") announced today its investment in Syracuse-based Hidden Level Inc., a dual-use technology developer of passive sensing technology across the full radio frequency (RF) spectrum in high-interference environments.

MELBOURNE, FLORIDA — prnewswire.com — Tomahawk Robotics is thrilled to announce the award of the Autonomy and Robotics Enhanced Multi-Domain Infantry Squad (ARTEMIS) program through the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL). The $6.5M award spans activities and deliveries scheduled from 2022 through 2024.

SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH — bloomberg.com — Strider Technologies scours open-source data in China to identify technologies most at risk of being stolen — and the people who might be tempted to steal them. China’s government calls IP theft allegations ‘malicious slandering.’

SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH — newsroom.siliconslopes.com — By sourcing and interpreting over 30,000 sources of “digital exhaust” today, Strider Technologies is helping provide its clients with timely, relevant, and actionable information security data so they can make the best decisions for dealing with bad actors on a global basis, whether corporate or governmental.