At Valinor, our mission is to get more products into the hands of warfighters and public servants who need them.

Valinor is a first-of-its-kind company providing a go-to-market engine for the world’s best technologists building products for defense, the broader U.S. Government, and our allies.

Despite more than $52 billion dollars in private funding that has been collectively poured into top defense and government tech companies, only $22 billion in federal funding has been awarded to the companies in this ecosystem, and more strikingly, 81% of the total amount awarded by the U.S. Government went to a single company, SpaceX (Silicon Valley Defense Group, 2024). This is not sustainable.

Why is this happening? While the startup community attracts the best talent and builds the most innovative products, technologists often fall into what many call “the Field of Dreams fallacy”, believing that if you build it, the contracts will come. In practice, building and selling technology to defense and government is incredibly challenging, requiring credible feedback from end users in the field, accreditation and clearances, flexible procurement strategies, and a deep understanding of the human terrain at all levels. The go-to-market is often an afterthought, leading to companies getting stuck on R&D dollars while struggling to convert efforts into long term, budgeted programs.

What does this mean for Defense, Intelligence, and Civilian missions? The best products often never make it into the hands of the operators that desperately need the latest capabilities to fulfill their mission. Our country is facing unprecedented challenges on multiple fronts from defense to healthcare to infrastructure, but government processes such as procurement drown out the voice of the operator. It is critical that we change this paradigm now.

Valinor is a win for the entire ecosystem - Builders, Government, and Capital Providers. Through Valinor:

• Builders have a haven where they can focus on building great product, while Valinor partners with them to ensure they create real champions for their products, get credible feedback, and drive value rapidly;

• Government can hyper-inform every product created, ensuring real mission gaps are fulfilled - many of which today are being passed up by VC-backed defense companies incentivized to only pursue massive programs that will get venture scale returns; and

• Capital Providers seeking to participate in the defense and broader government tech landscape can support the mission more sustainably by spreading their risk across products and focus areas, and do so with the knowledge that their product investments are backed by a world class go-to-market team. The U.S. cannot afford to have defense tech be just another hype cycle.

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