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@RedCellPartners is hiring for engineers who are interested in evals and data for regulated industries. If this is something you are interested in, feel free to reach out over DM with any questions or apply at the listings below: Researcher: job-boards.greenhouse.io/red… FDE: job-boards.greenhouse.io/red… Platform: job-boards.greenhouse.io/red… #defensetech #startups #evals #vc
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Our Founder and CEO @grantverstandig Verstandig has been named to the @WBJonline 's inaugural Power 250 — a list of the most influential business and nonprofit leaders in Greater Washington. 🚀 Thank you to Doug Fruehling and the WBJ team for the recognition. See the full list: bizjournals.com/washington/n… #Power250 #RedCellPartners #ImpactThroughInnovation
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Last week marked Red Cell’s last All Hands of the year – an opportunity to celebrate our wins, including new contracts and exits, hear critical business updates, reflect on learnings, and strategize for the year ahead.
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Our team also had the opportunity to volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House, helping with daily tasks while staff cared for young patients and their families. Looking forward to welcoming everyone back in 2027! 🚀 #redcellpartners #impactthroughinnovation #teambuilding
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We took last night off for a long overdue party with our team, portfolio companies, and partners. There's been a lot to celebrate: big contract wins, an exit, and a massive expansion of our HQ. Thank you to everyone who spent their Wednesday night with us.
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Our first exit – Claros’s acquisition by @NavitasSemi closed today. 543 days from launch to a $232.8M outcome, Claros is a perfect example of what the Red Cell model and platform can achieve–in hardware no less. We’re incredibly proud to have built Claros with Dan and his team from day one, reinventing how energy flows from the grid to the chip and enabling power savings in AI data centers. In that short amount of time, Claros fabricated and tested four generations of integrated voltage regulators, built an integration lab and testbed for Power Gateway in Los Angeles, and partnered with Samsung Electronics to deliver engineering samples and additional IVR designs. The future is bright for Claros - congratulations again to Dan and the entire team! Read more about the origin of Claros here: redcellpartners.com/origin-s…
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In September, we secured a major contract with the Pentagon, welcomed new leaders across our platform and portfolio, delivered a lecture at Brown University, and more. Catch up on what you may have missed below👇 #ImpactThroughInnovation #September2026
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We welcomes Rachel Riley to the team.
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As of September 8th, the Pentagon requires every program to assess foreign influence, governance, and provenance across all of its third-party and open source software. Hunted Labs has been building the case for this moment since it launched in the wake of XZ Utils – unmasking easyjson, exposing foreign influence in fast-glob, and allowing customers to vet and monitor their open source components before they become a liability. This team has doggedly pursued policy and mindset changes to protect America's national security infrastructure, and this is a big leap forward on their mission to make open source more secure. We're proud to support that mission. 🚀 More on this new DoW Instruction: huntedlabs.com/blog/the-pent… #ProtectTheHunted #cybersecurity #opensource #nationalsecurity #ImpactThroughInnovation
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Congratulations to our Founder and CEO Grant Verstandig on being named a Washingtonian Tech Titan for the second year in a row! The annual roundup celebrates the entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and other leaders shaping Washington's tech scene. Read the full list here: washingtonian.com/2026/09/08…
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Today, we remember and honor the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and the first responders and families forever changed by that day. We will never forget.
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From @NateDoughty / @WBJonline: “Red Cell believes this is the first time a venture capital firm has been awarded a contract for this kind of work inside the Defense Department.” “We have spent a lot of time opening doors for our companies,” Veronica Daigle said. “I think this is a natural next step.” Read the full story here: bizjournals.com/washington/n…
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