Alex Moore, Palantir's first employee and partner at 8VC, focuses on building defense companies to public scale—incubating via a Build Program and serving on boards like Palantir, Saronic, and Epirus.

Matias Zorrilla applies structured‑finance and late‑stage transaction expertise as a San Diego–based, first‑look gatekeeper for early‑stage defense and critical‑tech founders, offering quantitative, capital‑structure‑aware VC/accelerator partnership and fundraising guidance.

Caie is a General Partner focused on growth-stage opportunities who applies quantitative analysis to science-backed deep tech and has backed founders in batteries, alternative materials, circularity and climate software.

Arthur Karell, a Bronze Star–decorated Marine infantry officer who, after senior roles at FiscalNote, Anduril and Seashell and sourcing over $425M in acquisitions, focuses on defense and dual‑use seed-stage startups.

Ellen Chisa, Dark’s cofounder who built a backend language, editor and infrastructure, meets founders pre‑company and focuses on developer adoption via tight learning experiments to displace incumbents in 5–10 years.

John Forbes, an operator who served as Chief of Staff at Perimeter and helped it reach product-market fit, seeks founders revealing absolutely absurd secrets to spot frontier opportunities.