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A New Model to Accelerate Defense Innovation In venture capital, we focus on technology as the key enabler of transformation. But what if tech itself is not enough? What if a different approach or an entirely new business model is needed to transform certain markets? At General Catalyst, we've been investing in defense tech for two decades. We've been successful but we've seen how startups struggle with scaling goverment sales and going after elusive moonshot "programs of record". I co-founded Valinor because there has to be a better way to build for defense tech innovation but I knew it would take a different approach, a new business model and an unparalleled team. Valinor is not a single company, it’s a company of companies with centralized operations and decentralized engineering. Valinor builds what our government needs, faster and better, and we solve the problems that go unsolved. Valinor has launched ten Product Companies in just a little over a year. Thank you to my co-founding partners, Trae Stephens and Grant Verstandig and for our partnerships with Palantir, Anduril and Helsing. I'm incredibly grateful for our founding CEO Julie Bush who is the unicorn CEO to make this vision a reality. Julie's built an unparalleled team that has operated at scale in defense tech at every level and is compounding impact for our Product Companies. Read more below about Valinor and how we are building what others won't for our nation and our allies. #GlobalResilience #DefenseResilience #GovTechResilience https://lnkd.in/ePzX_s7r