Vannevar Labs

Brett Granberg and Nini Hamrick met at Stanford business school after very different tours through the national security world, his at In-Q-Tel and on a deployment to Afghanistan, hers across seven years of counterterrorism work at the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They founded Vannevar Labs in Palo Alto in 2019 and shipped a first product less than two years later. The company sells software rather than hardware, has been profitable since 2021, and by 2024 annual contract value had reached roughly $80 million on business that is about 85 percent recurring and multi year. Venture funding totals near $91.5 million, most of it a $75 million Series B led by Felicis in January 2023, and a secondary mark in late 2024 valued the business at $1.5 billion. A second office sits in New York.

Foundational data is the first half of what gets sold. Vannevar collects and processes foreign language, publicly available and commercially sourced material that classified collection tends to skip, running past a petabyte of adversarial data across 79 languages and hundreds of feeds. Decrypt was the first product built on that pile, launched in January 2021 to translate, categorize, search and pull entities out of foreign language text at a volume no analyst team could match. Serra puts the same material on a map over time. Overwatch and Local cover information operations, detecting and tracking foreign disinformation so a commander can watch an influence campaign while it is still running.

Agent applications are the second half and the direction of travel since 2025. Revere and Foreshadow monitor maritime activity in the gray zone, the shadowing and unflagged movement that falls short of open conflict. Telescope supports specialised units with tailored collection and analysis. ARCHER is the newest, an information warfighting platform put into service across the Indo-Pacific with the Defense Innovation Unit since 2024. At Exercise Talisman Sabre in July 2025 the company fielded what it calls the first agentic AI agents used in a major exercise, deployed onto the Navy DCGS-N shore system in under four weeks, and its models anticipated four scenarios that later played out.

Three mission areas organize the customer base. Indo-Pacific deterrence is the biggest, covering Indo-Pacific Command, Marine Corps Forces Pacific, Special Operations Command and its Pacific component, and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which publicly credited the software during a 2025 deployment. Homeland security work runs to investigations, counter fentanyl operations, border security and transnational criminal organizations. Intelligent statecraft is the economic strand, tracking corruption and elite capture, supply chain exposure, illicit technology transfer and shell company networks. The software runs at more than fifteen military bases and is accredited onto JWICS, FedRAMP High authorization arrived in June 2026 through a partnership with Knox Systems, and the company now says its tools support over 125 national security missions.