Company research
Fetched Oct 10
- Founders
- Gavin Kliger · co-founderBefore Cathedral, he was the chief data officer at the Pentagon.
- Luke Farritor · co-founderBefore Cathedral, he was an intern at SpaceX and oversaw cost cutting at the General Services Administration during his DOGE tenure.
- Marko Elez · co-founderBefore Cathedral, he worked at SpaceX and then at the U.S. Treasury Department during his DOGE tenure.
- Jack Stein · co-founder
- Gavin Kliger · co-founder
- Business model
- Cathedral intends to make money by selling its AI cyber systems to the U.S. government under federal contracts.
WHY IT MATTERS
Cathedral is trying to apply AI to both offensive and defensive U.S. military cyber operations against adversaries such as China, as the Pentagon and other government departments take a more active role in partnering with startups on national-security goals. Investors put $160 million into the newly launched company at a $1.4 billion valuation, betting on a founding team with recent Pentagon and DOGE ties even though it had no disclosed revenue or contracts.
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Investors
Series A$160M2026-07-222 investors
Andreessen Horowitz[ LEAD ]
Sequoia Capital[ LEAD ]