In April, our team made its mark from Georgetown to the Oval Office, welcomed a new leader to our healthcare practice, and came together for our first All Hands of the year.
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#ImpactThroughInnovation #April2026
Less than three years after the $4B sale of Rally Health as its Founder and CEO, @GrantVerstandig4 founded @RedCellPartners with the goal of building technology-led companies that would make a lasting impact on U.S. healthcare, cyber, and national security.
Just over five years later, we've built a portfolio of nearly 20 companies – 13 from the ground up – and raised nearly $500M across the firm and our incubations. At the center of it all, Grant continues to guide our companies through their many stages of growth, from launching Trase's next-gen AI infrastructure to recently raising $30M for Claros's data center power management platform.
Go behind-the-scenes with @wbjnewsroom 's Sara Gilgore to get a glimpse at Red Cell's operations, Grant's career, and our collective commitment to creating a healthier and safer world for the next generation – link in bio.
Life-changing medications like GLP-1s aren’t reaching the people who could most benefit from them—not because of scarcity, but because of a benefits model built for a different era.
Opaque fees, rebate-driven incentives, and layers of middlemen have left everyday working Americans frustrated with a system that promises access but consistently fails to deliver it.
Having witnessed this dysfunction firsthand at Rally Health, @grantverstandig4 , Chip Nash, and @naimish built Crux, a no-fee benefits platform that contracts directly with pharmaceutical manufacturers, passing their pricing through to employers at cost.
Go behind-the-scenes to learn of Crux's founding at the link in our bio.
Today's warfare is evolving faster than at any point in modern history and the window to respond is narrow.
Red Cell exists to meet this moment. We build technology companies to solve our nation's most pressing problems in national security, healthcare, and beyond.
Hear from our President, David Silverman, on why our mission remains critical.
March was an exciting month across the Red Cell ecosystem. Our portfolio company, Claros, closed a $30M seed round and was named one of DC’s most promising startups. At the same time, we continued to attract top talent as our team made news and took the stage at leading conferences.
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#ImpactThroughInnovation #March2026
In case you missed it, Mark Esper, PhD recently joined Colin Demarest at Axios AI + DC to talk defense tech, venture, and how Red Cell is contributing to much-needed innovation across the DoW.
Watch the full conversation at the link in our bio.
#DefenseTech #NationalSecurity #innovation #AI #Axios
Thirteen months ago, we launched Claros with a simple but ambitious goal: to safeguard our nation from a looming energy crisis by reimagining how power is sourced, used, and stored in data centers.
Today we co-led their $30M seed round with @generalcatalyst to reimagine data center power from chip to grid. Joining us were new and existing partners like Systemiq Capital, Aero X Ventures, Trenches Capital, and others.
With its integrated voltage regulator and DC-native power distributor, Claros is significantly improving AI chips’ power efficiency, reducing energy waste, and making the entire data center operation more resilient.
Learn more about Claros and its technology in this @axios exclusive - link in bio.
#Claros #RedCell Partners #ImpactThroughInnovation #SeedRound #Fundraise AI DataCenter PowerDelivery @grantverstandig4
On Friday, Andesite CEO Brian Carbaugh joined @bloombergtv ’s Balance of Power to reflect on his early career as a CIA officer, its impact on Andesite’s technology and culture, and how AI’s rapid evolution is demanding novel strategies to elevate our nation’s preparedness against growing cyber threats.
Watch the interview: /news/videos/2026-03-13/tech-savvy-spies-step-out-of-shadows-into-boardrooms-video
Andesite reflects a growing movement of former CIA officers leveraging their expertise to lead dual-use technology startups, as reported by @bloomberg ’s Jamie Tarabay last week. Read the full story at the link in our bio.
#andesite #cybersecurity #ai
“Retired spies [are] taking their field experience from the CIA to the C-suite,” according to @Bloomberg ’s Jamie Tarabay.
It’s a rising trend we’ve witnessed since Red Cell’s inception, with former CIA officer Brian Carbaugh joining @GrantVerstandig4 to co-found Andesite, a human-AI SOC empowering cyber defense teams to make critical decisions, assess threats, reduce risk, and focus on prevention.
Learn how officers-turned-founders are using their unique skillset to solve technology challenges across both government and commercial sectors - link in bio.
#andesite #cia #founder #impactthroughinnovation
We are thrilled to welcome Sean O'Keefe to the Red Cell Platform team as our new Deputy CTO!
Sean brings extensive expertise in cutting-edge software engineering and AI safety. Most recently SVP of Engineering and Founding Engineer at Function Health, he led the development of a secure health data platform and launched a generative AI platform utilizing LLMs.
When he's not working, Sean can be found in the water spearfishing or scuba diving.
We're so excited to have you on the team, Sean!
Read the full press release at the link in our bio.
#newhire #welcometotheteam #technology #AI #ImpactThroughInnovation
Last week, our Founder, Chairman, and CEO @grantverstandig4 joined some of the brightest minds in healthcare technology at the Milken Institute's Cancer 2035. Alongside Luciana Borio of ARCH Venture Partners and Helmy Eltoukhy, CEO of Guardant Health, he discussed how innovation in trial design, new technology platforms, and strategic investment can get precision medicine to the patients who need it most.
See where our team is headed next: /events/
#Cancer2035 #MilkenInstitute
Our National Security President Veronica Daigle and Vantive CEO Brennan Grignon will take the stage at next week's AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology's MFG meeting to share their insights on how to best work with the Pentagon, what supply chain disruption looks like for our nation's military, and how manufacturers can best support today's Defense Industrial Base.
Register here at the link in our bio!
Looking forward to the discussion!
#MFGMeeting #NationalSecurity #ManufacturingTechnology
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