Archer

Arrow Electronics is a global powerhouse in technology distribution and innovation, generating $33 billion in sales annually while employing over 22,000 professionals across more than 85 countries. As a Fortune 500 company, Arrow guides innovation forward for thousands of leading technology manufacturers and service providers, enabling technological advancement across major industries and markets worldwide. The company's extensive portfolio and global reach make it a critical partner in bringing innovative products to market faster and more efficiently. Founded in 1935, Arrow has evolved from a retail electronics store into a comprehensive global provider of electronic components, enterprise computing solutions, and intelligent solutions. With operations spanning from North America to Asia Pacific and EMEA, Arrow helps customers design, source, build, and launch products that improve quality of life and make the benefits of innovation more accessible to all. The company's commitment to excellence in distribution performance and customer service has solidified its position as the world's leading technology solutions provider.

Axiado is redefining the very foundation of platform security in an era where software-based defenses are proving insufficient against sophisticated ransomware, supply chain attacks, and physical side-channel exploits. The company exists to secure the world's digital infrastructure from the silicon up, addressing a critical gap where traditional cybersecurity solutions fail to detect threats that can remain hidden for hundreds of days. By embedding artificial intelligence directly into hardware, Axiado's Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) provides the preemptive, real-time threat detection that modern cloud data centers, 5G networks, and accelerated computing platforms desperately need. The company's hardware-anchored approach integrates multiple critical security functions - including Root of Trust, Baseboard Management Controller, Trusted Platform Module, Hardware Security Module, and firewall capabilities - into a single system-on-chip protected by AI-driven threat detection. This innovative architecture doesn't just detect attacks; it stops them in real-time while also optimizing data center efficiency through dynamic thermal management that can reduce energy consumption by up to 50%. Backed by over $100 million in funding and recognized by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative companies, Axiado is partnering with industry leaders like Jabil and Gigabyte to make AI-driven platform security the default standard for the digital infrastructure powering our world.

We are Shield AI, a US based defense technology company founded in 2015 to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We design and deploy autonomous mission systems for aircraft and unmanned platforms, built around our Hivemind autonomy backbone and a family of mission ready software and hardware modules. Our products include X-BAT and V-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, ViDAR and other capabilities built to operate in GPS and comms denied environments. We develop EdgeOS, Pilot, Forge and Commander to enable rapid development, testing and deployment of resilient autonomy across domains. Our approach is aircraft agnostic, battle tested, and focused on human directable autonomy that can scale across platforms and theaters of operation. Our team emphasizes servant leadership and a mission first mindset. Since founding we have grown to over a thousand teammates with offices across the United States and internationally, and we continue to invest in building safe reliable autonomy for the modern battlefield. We collaborate with allies to advance AI pilots powering a safer world, aiming to reduce risk to service members while enhancing decision making and effectiveness in complex environments. Autonomy for the world remains our guiding vision and the greatest victory, we believe, requires no war.

Armis is the cyber exposure management and security company that protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization's cyber risk exposure in real time. In a perimeter-less world where connected devices proliferate across IT, OT, IoT, and cloud environments, Armis ensures enterprises continuously see, protect, and manage all critical assets - from the ground to the cloud. The company secures Fortune 100, 200, and 500 companies as well as national governments, state and local entities, helping keep critical infrastructure, economies, and society safe and secure 24/7. Founded in 2015 by Israeli military veterans Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, Armis has achieved remarkable growth, surpassing $300 million in annual recurring revenue. The company's AI-driven asset intelligence engine powers Armis Centrix™, a cloud-native platform that delivers real-time visibility and protection across all connected devices. In 2025, ServiceNow announced plans to acquire Armis in a $7.75 billion transaction, a testament to the company's market leadership and the critical importance of cyber exposure management in today's threat landscape.

Crossbow delivers enterprise cybersecurity through three operational pillars: consulting services that build out compliance and risk frameworks, engineering work that implements security controls across infrastructure and DevOps pipelines, and managed services for continuous monitoring and threat detection. The threat model is comprehensive - everything from exploitable vulnerabilities to regulatory violations - with technical coverage spanning penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, GRC, incident response, and virtual CISO support. They work primarily with fintech, software companies, and commercial enterprises where the stakes around data breaches and compliance failures are measurably high. The technical stack integrates security into the full DevOps lifecycle, from planning through deployment and operations, rather than bolting it on afterward. On the compliance side, Crossbow provides both advisory and validation for PCI DSS, ISO, and GDPR - frameworks where getting it wrong means fines, audit failures, or worse. Their penetration testing and vulnerability assessment practice operates on the offensive side, identifying what's exploitable before adversaries do, while managed services handle the continuous monitoring required to catch threats in motion. The operational model is proactive rather than reactive: ongoing monitoring, regular assessments, and embedded security engineering designed to prevent breaches rather than just respond to them. Crossbow's vCISO offering provides strategic security leadership for organizations that need executive-level guidance without a full-time hire. The scope is infrastructure-wide, managing security programs across an organization's entire technical footprint, which matters for companies scaling quickly or operating in heavily regulated sectors where security debt compounds fast.

Spear AI delivers maritime artificial intelligence solutions that bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and operational reality. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Falmouth, MA and Groton, CT, the company is dedicated to raising the standard of technical performance in the national security space. Spear AI's veteran-led team combines naval expertise with advanced AI technology to process tactical sensor data, deploy models at the edge, and enhance situational awareness for maritime operators. The company's integrated platform approach includes the Horizon AI Platform for edge maritime sensors, Forerunner for real-time maritime data processing, and OMEGA Simulator for developing tactics in relevant operational environments. Spear AI builds sonobuoy sensors that collect edge data and works directly with the U.S. Navy to collect and process SONAR data, delivering the intelligence warfighters need when seconds count.