Today, Defense Unicorns announced the completion of a $136 million Series B financing round led by Bain Capital. The investment brings the company to unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, driven by the company’s rapid and profitable growth. The company has seen a 300% increase in adoption year-over-year in military systems.
The Department of War is prioritizing modernization and speed, and Defense Unicorns’ platform addresses a critical infrastructure challenge by enabling secure, rapid software updates across disconnected environments from submarines, ships, and aircraft to forward operating bases. Warfighters often operate in conditions where connectivity is limited or nonexistent, and the ability to deploy software updates securely and instantly is now essential to mission success. Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) bridges high security requirements while supporting partners and allies with modern softwaresolutions essential for next-generation national security capabilities.
The funding round was led by Bain Capital’s Tech Opportunities fund, the growth technology platform of Bain Capital. With participation from Ansa Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, AVP, Uncorrelated Ventures, and the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, David H. Petraeus.
The new capital will enable Defense Unicorns to further scale and integrate open-source and commercial dual-use technology throughout the U.S. military and allied forces. To address the most critical modernization needs in defense, the company plans to advance product development across the following strategic products:
● UDS: A secure, portable, airgap-native runtime platform, purpose-built to solve DOW-specific software delivery challenges. UDS makes deploying and updating software on military systems fast and easy, with essential tools for packaging, deploying, monitoring, and sustaining mission applications.
● UDS Registry: The first software registry of its kind to offer the speed, reliability, and mission-critical performance required by military systems operating in the most extreme environments. UDS Registry gives the U.S. and our allies an American-maintained solution that secures our software supply chain and maintains trust and reliability across the software development lifecycle.
● UDS Army: A new approach to accelerate the continuous delivery of secure, mission-ready software to soldiers. UDS Army gives commercial software vendors a faster, simpler path to bring their capabilities to Army missions by combining secure DevSecOps pipelines with pre-authorized cloud environments.
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The Department Of War Welcomes a NEW Defense Unicorn
Today, Defense Unicorns announced the completion of a $136 million Series B financing round led by Bain Capital. The investment brings the company to unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, driven by the company’s rapid and profitable growth. The company has seen a 300% increase in adoption year-over-year in military systems.
The Department of War is prioritizing modernization and speed, and Defense Unicorns’ platform addresses a critical infrastructure challenge by enabling secure, rapid software updates across disconnected environments from submarines, ships, and aircraft to forward operating bases. Warfighters often operate in conditions where connectivity is limited or nonexistent, and the ability to deploy software updates securely and instantly is now essential to mission success. Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) bridges high security requirements while supporting partners and allies with modern softwaresolutions essential for next-generation national security capabilities.
The funding round was led by Bain Capital’s Tech Opportunities fund, the growth technology platform of Bain Capital. With participation from Ansa Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, AVP, Uncorrelated Ventures, and the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, David H. Petraeus.
The new capital will enable Defense Unicorns to further scale and integrate open-source and commercial dual-use technology throughout the U.S. military and allied forces. To address the most critical modernization needs in defense, the company plans to advance product development across the following strategic products:
● UDS: A secure, portable, airgap-native runtime platform, purpose-built to solve DOW-specific software delivery challenges. UDS makes deploying and updating software on military systems fast and easy, with essential tools for packaging, deploying, monitoring, and sustaining mission applications.
● UDS Registry: The first software registry of its kind to offer the speed, reliability, and mission-critical performance required by military systems operating in the most extreme environments. UDS Registry gives the U.S. and our allies an American-maintained solution that secures our software supply chain and maintains trust and reliability across the software development lifecycle.
● UDS Army: A new approach to accelerate the continuous delivery of secure, mission-ready software to soldiers. UDS Army gives commercial software vendors a faster, simpler path to bring their capabilities to Army missions by combining secure DevSecOps pipelines with pre-authorized cloud environments.
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