Bourbon Tasting and Defense Innovation Happy Hour, March 7th 5:30-7pm EST (Virtual)
with Liam Randall, Founder of wasmCloud
Join us on March 7th for a special virtual happy hour and interactive discussion around everything #natsec innovation. Our featured guest is Liam Randall, Founder of wasmCloud who will also be leading the group through a special tasting of bourbons (must opt in to receive the bourbons in advance of the event).
Liam Randall is a serial entrepreneur with serious credentials in the security community. A former contractor with the DoD and expert in open source core business models he
Pioneered the use of Bro/Zeek for large scale networking monitoring; training thousands
Launched the first Kubernetes Company ( Critical Stack ), sold to Capital One
Successfully executed OTA #2
Seed investor in OS Query ( Kolide ), sold to Matrix
Early investor in Cloud Custodian ( Stacklet )
and many other startups..
He has successfully sold numerous companies and he is a frequent public speaker, trainer, open-source advocate, educator, advisor, and strategist.
Liam is joining us to discuss the rapid rise of WebAssembly, CNCF wasmCloud, and his latest startup Cosmonic - the enterprise platform for building, operating, scaling and maintaining distributed applications across diverse hardware.
Open source wasmCloud is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project and quickly becoming a standard way to build applications quickly that can run securely everywhere with WebAssembly. This lightweight and agile framework dramatically slashes the cost to build, run, and maintain micro-services while giving them the flexibility to run everywhere securely. It is being used by banks for multi-cloud, defense contractors, power utilities, auto manufacturers, and more - with nearly 100 contributors it is growing quickly.
All are welcome to join us for some socially separated sipping. RSVP below and a bourbon tasting opt-in form will be sent to you in the confirmation email. Participation in the tasting is entirely optional; BYOB or just hang out - your presence is your present!
There is no charge to attend the Monday happy hours.
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Jan 28th, 3pm EST, Startup CEO Roundtable (virtual event)
Startup CEOs - learn about COVID tax credits! If you formed your company after Feb 15th, 2021, you need to attend this.
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Become an Angel Investor in Defense Tech Startups, Co-investing with Expeditionary Ventures
Expeditionary Ventures is an emerging venture capital firm supporting seed to series A technology entrepreneurs with a hardware focus for critical infrastructure and national security markets.
How to Get Involved
EVERYONE: Expeditionary Ventures is co-hosting an event in Austin, TX in March, during SXSW, for influencers in the defense innovation ecosystem. Entrepreneurs, investors, creators and connectors are all welcome.
STARTUPS: If your company would like to have a conversation about funding, you can send us information about your raise and we can schedule a conversation (pw: xvtermrequest).
ANGEL AND EXPERIENCED INVESTORS: Expeditionary Ventures is preparing to launch two funds
1) A rolling fund on AngelList which will be available to investors to participate via subscription (For as low as $10k/year to join the fund as an angel investor).
2) A larger, standard venture fund ($2mil minimum to join as a Limited Partner).