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Reveal Technology raises $11M to scale ‘decision dominance’ tools for DOD
Reveal Technology is one notable standout in this effort. The 6-year-old startup has been working with multiple branches of the U.S. Department of Defense to put its flagship software product into the hands of operators. That software, called Farsight, can rapidly convert video from drones into 3D maps that live on a smartphone. The company is already in production with a number of programs with the Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, and some foreign militaries.
Farsight offers major advantages over the status quo, which is generally smartphones preloaded with two-dimensional maps. Those maps are often generated from years-old satellite data, and they frequently fail to reflect the changing nature of a battlefield, Reveal co-founder and CEO Garrett Smith explained in a recent interview.
Along the way, the startup also acquired DFL Technology to onboard its product, Identifi, a mostly smartphone-based biometrics and human identity data collection and verification system. The through line between Reveal’s two products is the decision dominance piece: providing tactical information at the edge and in mobile environments. If Farsight is all about navigating the physical terrain, Smith said, “Identifi is all about the human terrain.”
Investors have been paying attention: The company just closed a $11.2 million Series A led by Next Frontier Capital, with participation from defy.vc and 8VC, to scale its team and build out its product lineup — to do nothing less than, as Smith put it, “dominate the mobile and edge space.”