Fairwater Labs: a company creation platform dedicated to accelerating innovation

Who we are

Fairwater Labs is a company creation platform partnering with founders to build the next generation of dual-use technologies. We are a team of entrepreneurial builders, with decades of business and military experience.

What we do

Fairwater Labs rapidly screens, evaluates, and builds businesses, executed by a seasoned team for emerging technologies for national security and dual-use.

Board of Directors

Neil Sequeira

Founder & Managing Director, Defy

Garrett Smith

Founder & CEO, Reveal Technology

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Our view of the world

We see a compelling case for dual-use business models—those focusing first on national security applications, and then on commercial analogs—to address challenges, capitalize on opportunities, and yield strategic advantage while delivering value to society writ large. An ecosystem of partners and catalysts has emerged to support the development of dual-use ventures today, as it did to great effect during the Cold War of the 20th century: DARPA gave us the internet; GPS laid the groundwork for today’s real-time mapping applications.

Fairwater Labs was born from this brainstorm: a company creation platform focused on harnessing today’s cutting edge technologies to mitigate risk and solve the problems of today.

Trusted by leading institutions and startups

We are honored to work with partners who hold the line on what matters most. Our credibility with these institutions is earned through execution and focus.

Meet the leaders of our portfolio companies

"Partnering with Fairwater Labs has been instrumental in advancing our military mission. They connected us directly with frontline operators and secured access to critical technical experiments, including Trident Spectre, that we could not have achieved on our own. Their network and expertise have been a force multiplier for Cyphlens in the defense community."
Rocky Motwani
Co-Founder and CEO
Cyphlens
"Fairwater Labs has been a valuable partner for Clara Copilot. Their support and guidance have helped streamline the government sales process and advance our platform’s development. Their collaboration has been essential in driving impactful, mission-focused solutions."
Alex Moffitt
Founder & CEO
Clara Copilot
"Partnering with Fairwater Labs significantly de-risked the early stages of our startup journey. Their team brought deep expertise across business and product development, from refining our go-to-market strategy to offering critical input on product design decisions. Just as importantly, they helped us accelerate our prototyping process, allowing us to iterate faster and with greater confidence."
Mark Buonforte
Founder/CEO
Delta AI
"Our partnership with Fairwater Labs has been a catalyst for Halite Medical. Their team brought not just tools and structure, but strategic insight that comes from deep experience in defense and dual-use ventures. It’s still early, but we’ve already seen the impact with key wins in the defense marketplace."
Rachel Wong
Founder/CEO
Halite Medical
"Fairwater Labs was the first organization to believe in Swell. They saw my vision before others could—stood by us through the trough of sorrow, rolled up their sleeves to work alongside us when we were deep in the trenches, challenged me as a founder and backed my toughest calls. More than partners, they show up like cofounders, especially in the hardest times."
Rachel Edenfield
Founder & CEO
Swell
Fairwater Labs has been a pleasure to work with from incubation. Their advisors across business and product development have been critical to helping us win our Phase 1 SBIR, improve on our product, and provide mentorship.
Aristos Xanthus
Founder/CTO
Delta AI
"Fairwater Labs has been instrumental in shaping our early go-to-market strategy within the DoD, helping us identify initial users and securing an exercise invitation before we even launched. They've also provided valuable feedback on our early product designs as we developed our MVP."
Jamison Pereira
Founder/CEO
Endstate Technologies

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