Defense Unicorns
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Location
Headquarters: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, North America
Region: Colorado
Country: US
Continent: North America
About
Defense Unicorns delivers secure, scalable software deployment solutions for defense, government, and enterprise missions. The company focuses on air-gapped, vendor-lock-free deployments with automated security compliance and rapid ATO readiness, enabling mission-critical software to run across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. Through its UDS platform and open-source foundations, Defense Unicorns accelerates software delivery while enforcing NIST 800-53 controls and CVE scanning for national security missions.
Defense Unicorns provides secure, scalable software deployment solutions for defense, government, and enterprise missions. The company utilizes its UDS platform to enable rapid, vendor-lock-free delivery of mission-critical applications across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments while ensuring automated security compliance.
Defense Unicorns, Inc.
2021
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Business Services
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series A
35500000
1m-10m
private
Investors
Founders
Andrew Greene
Jeff McCoy
Robert Slaughter
Leadership
Technology Stack
Products
UDS Core: An open-source platform for secure, portable, and airgap-ready software delivery in disconnected or classified environments.
UDS Premium: An enhanced version of UDS Core offering a graphical user interface, real-time observability, compliance artifacts, and enterprise support for secure software deployment.
UDS Registry: A secure, airgap-ready software package registry for managing and distributing pre-vetted mission-critical applications across connected and disconnected environments.
UDS Tactical Edge: A deployment solution enabling rapid, secure software delivery and updates to disconnected, contested, or tactical edge environments.
Zarf: An open-source packaging tool that bundles applications and dependencies into portable artifacts for deployment in disconnected or airgapped environments.
Pepr: A Kubernetes middleware framework that automates resource management, policy enforcement, and integration of applications in Kubernetes clusters.
Funding rounds
Series B · $136M · (2026-01-13) · Lead: Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
Series A · $35M · (2024-03-07) · Lead: Ansa Capital,Sapphire Ventures
Seed · $0.5M · (2022-10-13)
