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Vannevar Labs

Backed byFelicis Ventures
Total raised$178.5M
StageSeries B
Hiring pace10 roles / 90d
Founded2019
Team size51-200
HQPalo Alto, California
IndustriesDefense and Space Manufacturing

About Vannevar Labs

Founded in 2019, this company builds software and hardware solutions designed to support U.S. national security missions across all service branches, combatant commands, partner nations, and the intelligence community. With approximately 180 employees and backing from prominent investors including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, and Point72, the company has scaled from $3M to $80M in annual recurring revenue in just three years while maintaining profitability since 2021. Its software is deployed across 125+ national security and U.S. government missions, serving customers including the CIA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security. The company's mission centers on supporting personnel on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries, with a particular focus on Indo-Pacific deterrence and gray zone competition with China.

Open positions · 11

Company at a glance

Locations
Los Angeles, United States ·New York City, United States ·San Francisco, United States
Websitevannevarlabs.com
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • 401(k) match
  • Fully paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Child care reimbursement during travel
  • Pet care reimbursement during travel
  • Lifestyle stipends

Investors

Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering75%
  • Business Operations10%
  • Product & Design7%
  • Other4%
  • Leadership1%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Stanford University
  2. 2.University of California, Los Angeles
  3. 3.Georgia Institute of Technology
  4. 4.United States Naval Academy
  5. 5.Washington University in St. Louis

Team Worked At

  • Palantir Technologies
  • Northrop Grumman
  • United States Air Force
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Culture & values

Engineering team is small, flat, and mission-obsessed, operating more like focused startups than a traditional defense contractor

Culture defined by high ownership and low bureaucracy

Forward Deployed Engineers run mission workstreams like founders with autonomy over architectural decisions and direct stakeholder interfaces

CTO personally meets with every engineering candidate, reflecting technical leadership's commitment to culture fit

Strong bias toward builders who thrive in ambiguity and can drive work through to deployment without perfectly defined playbooks

Cross-functional and tight-knit collaboration between FDEs, product, design, platform engineering, and mission domain experts

Engineers rewarded for speaking both technical and mission fluency

Team combines world-class software engineers with veteran strategists in intentional blend

Engineers own missions end-to-end from requirements gathering through deployment and sustainment

Fast-paced work environment with genuinely consequential impact

Team operates with startup-level agility while maintaining profitability and staying power

Culture that respects the whole person, not just the engineer

Funding History

Cumulative Funding

Life at Vannevar Labs

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