Defense · Energy · AI · Space
Operator-led intelligence and capture for defense-tech companies that need to grow, get funded, and exit.
A113 Partners is a hands-on operating practice — not a fund and not a memo-writing consultancy. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with defense-tech founders and the investors backing them, turning frontier technology into funded programs and realized exits.
We are led by an inventor and operator who has built, scaled, patented, and sold deep-tech companies — and we bring that same playbook to the companies we work with.
Engagements
Four ways we create value — and get paid for it.
Every engagement is structured so incentives are aligned and the economics are clear up front. No capital is pooled or deployed; clients pay for intelligence, operating leadership, and readiness.
Defense Intelligence Platform
Productized appropriations-intelligence engagements built on a proprietary LLM-native platform we own. From company URL to a ranked, evidence-backed list of funding opportunities in under 10 minutes.
Productized engagements from $12,500.
Fractional Capture & Growth
Embedded operating leadership for SBIR-stage and growth-stage defense companies: capture strategy, appropriations targeting, prime relationships, BD, and revenue. The role a full-time CSO/CRO would play.
Monthly retainer — scoped per engagement.
Advisory & Operating Equity
Lower cash, long-term alignment: hands-on advisory in exchange for equity that pays at exit. For companies we believe in and want to help build over time.
Equity + light retainer.
Diligence & Sourcing for Capital Providers
Defense-grade technical and market diligence, pipeline analysis, and proprietary deal sourcing for private-equity and capital partners evaluating defense-tech targets.
Advisory fee per mandate.
One Operator
Two sides of the table.
◆ For Companies
We help defense-tech founders find the appropriations dollars that fund their next phase, build the relationships and capture strategy to win them, and get fundraising-ready — clean materials, a credible model, and warm investor introductions.
◆ For Investors
We help capital providers see what others can't: defense-grade diligence, program-alignment analysis, and proprietary sourcing drawn from the same intelligence engine we run for operators.
What We Do
From appropriations signal to funded program.
Capability clusters delivered as services — intelligence, capture, capital readiness, and diligence that move mission-critical technology from prototype to program of record.
Appropriations & Capture Intelligence
- ◆Appropriations line-item targeting
- ◆Solicitation & award tracking
- ◆SBIR/STTR & Phase III transition strategy
- ◆Competitive & partnership mapping
- ◆Funding-direction signals
- ◆Prime teaming strategy
Capital Readiness (not a capital raise)
- ◆Fundraising-readiness assessment
- ◆Investor materials & data-room build
- ◆Financial model & TAM construction
- ◆Warm investor introductions
- ◆Narrative & positioning
A113 Partners is compensated for readiness work and introductions on a fixed/retainer basis — not as a percentage of any capital raised.
Defense-Tech Diligence & Value Creation
- ◆Pre-LOI market & competitive diligence
- ◆Post-LOI technical & operational diligence
- ◆Post-close value-creation blueprint
- ◆Board-ready deliverables & TAM modeling
- ◆Pipeline analysis & program alignment
- ◆Expert briefings for PE deal teams
Research Commercialization
- ◆University patent-portfolio analysis
- ◆Federal program-alignment mapping
- ◆Named-licensee identification
- ◆Commercialization-pathway analysis
- ◆Tech-transfer office partnerships
Track Record
Built, scaled, patented, and exited — now working for you.
We have founded and led advanced-technology companies at the intersection of defense, energy, telecommunications, and intelligent systems — including a pioneer in two-phase liquid immersion cooling that raised over $100M before being acquired by a Fortune 1000 industrial leader. We hold 25+ patents spanning robotics, post-quantum security, batteries, and edge infrastructure.
That operator background is the difference. We don't write memos from the outside — we sit with founders through Phase II execution, prime negotiation, and the appropriations cycle, and we brief government agencies, primes, and capital providers across homeland security, critical-infrastructure protection, and advanced manufacturing.
One operator. Built, scaled, patented, and exited.
◆ A113 Defense Intelligence Platform
Find the appropriations line items that will fund your next phase.
Our LLM-native intelligence engine turns the entire DoD budget, solicitation pipeline, and contract-award history into a ranked, evidence-backed list of opportunities matched to a company's specific technology. Built and operated by A113 Partners. Available as a productized engagement for defense-tech founders post-SBIR Phase I or II.
Proof point: A defense-grade battery manufacturer was onboarded in under 10 minutes. The platform surfaced 151 high-relevance opportunities — including a $287.9M Marine Corps program with 19 congressional adds whose mission statement explicitly named the company's product category.
Engagement
Let's find the money — and win it.
For defense-tech founders who need to grow revenue and get funded, and for investors who need an operator's read on a deal.