Building Your First FDE Team
The playbook to your first Forward Deployed Engineering team. From Palantir's early FDE.
Founding Sponsor / Collaborator
Forward Deployed VC
Deployed Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building technologies for defense, national security, and government markets. The firm focuses on founders with operational or military backgrounds and supports companies working across aerospace, autonomy, robotics, AI, and advanced hardware. Deployed provides capital and strategic guidance to help startups navigate procurement, scale operations, and deliver mission-ready solutions.
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Teardown: Talent Mafias
c/o Forward Deployed VC, backs early-stage teams modernizing critical American industries.
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