Aslan

America's adversaries now operate and recruit across a dark digital domain no human institution can reach at scale. Aslan is going after them.

[Tectonic @tectonicdefense]

🕵‍♂️ In a very 2026 spin on "secret agents," @AslanProtects emerged from stealth with $20M in seed funding led by @khoslaventures and @xyz_vc, offering the US military and intel agencies AI agents that craft hyperrealistic personas and infiltrate criminal, terrorist, and adversary digital networks.

🔗 @barratt_dewey has the full story at the link below

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

Read more here: https://t.co/PCWmnHM6Ce

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

The American people and American institutions have been made to accept a reality where a web of faceless, evil actors can defraud, deceive, honeypot, and even plan lethal attacks against us, all from the sanctuary of a dark internet.

They can change accounts, names, platforms, and groups. We should not have to rediscover them every time they do.

But right now that's how it's done. Our $20M round is already changing that.

Nearly 100 Aslan operatives are already out there, building the persistent presence our operators have never had at scale.

@tectonicdefense went deeper on how it works and why winning in the digital theater requires scale and persistence, not just more collection and more headcount.

[Alumni Ventures @alumniventures]

Congratulations to the entire team at @AslanProtects. We're excited to be a part of your journey!

[2048 Ventures 🧬 🤖 ⚙️ @2048vc]

🗞️ 2048 Ventures Portfolio Company News:

Exclusive: Agentic AI startup launches with $20.8M

https://t.co/7cOCqrI8sb

@AslanProtects // @2048vc // #startups // #VC

[Chase Reid @realchasereid]

You can only sit idly by as our children are preyed on by foreign grooming networks, our communities poisoned by narcoterrorists, and our families stripped of everything by faceless fraud syndicates abroad before “fact of life” starts sounding like surrender.

You can accept these as separate, elusive evils and keep fighting them on terms the adversary chose.

Or you can change the terms.

Today, we bring Aslan (@aslanprotects) out of stealth and announce $20.8M in seed funding from Khosla Ventures (@hari_arul), XYZ VC (@ImChauncey, @fubini), 2048 VC (@alexiskold, @thisiszann), BoxGroup (@davidtisch, @ClaireSmilow), and other committed believers.

In the past six months, we began putting AI operatives inside places our adversaries thought were beyond our reach.

Already, Aslan operatives have unmasked cross-border smugglers coordinating on Telegram, Southeast Asian cyber-fraud syndicates with no open-source footprints, and coordinated campaigns to subvert the American defense industrial base.

Our national security apparatus doesn't need another feed or point solution. It needs presence where the adversary operates, on their turf, at their scale.

This capital lets us take the fight everywhere our adversaries thought they could hide, multiply the reach of American operators, and begin turning back the tide of what the internet has unleashed.

Wrong will be right when Aslan comes in sight.

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (@samsabin923 / Axios)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[Axios @axios]

This startup is building AI undercover agents for the FBI and other agencies https://t.co/BHdAzLSHxN

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

We're excited to welcome @KhoslaVentures, @XYZ_VC, and @Liquid2V to the mission, and grateful to have early believers @2048vc, @BoxGroup, @alumniventures, and @katenolanSEA returning for the next arc of this crusade

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

The world moved online. Our adversaries went with it. We stayed outside, mistaking more collection for presence.

Aslan is out of stealth with $20.8M to change that.

The terrain is digital now. America should be there.

Axios has the exclusive first look:

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

https://t.co/Gixa17O7l6

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

@2048vc @xyz_vc @khoslaventures @Liquid2V @BoxGroup @katenolanSEA @alumniventures

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

A choir of voices, including @BullMooseProj, are highlighting what we've long known: that online corridors are breeding grounds for predation and harm at a scale far exceeding what authorities are equipped to confront.

@AslanProtects will equip them.

https://t.co/1EiXeQqDci

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

Prefer a mission over mundanity?
Prefer technical agency over clearing tickets?
Prefer going fast over bureaucracy?

Or know someone who fits the bill?

We're hiring at Aslan. And we'll pay you $7.5K if a person you recommend joins the crusade.

[email protected] or DM.

[2048 Ventures 🧬 🤖 ⚙️ @2048vc]

2048 Ventures Pre-Seed Fast Track Investment

We funded Aslan - https://t.co/eaIHglrao1 - in 8 days.

Chase Reid is a visionary, passionate about making local communities more safe.

Together with his co-founder Ansel Tessier, they launched @AslanProtects — AI power platform that detects mass shootings and other local crime before it happens.

Learn more and apply to @2048vc Fast Track here: https://t.co/bL1tZOagym

[Sandy Hook Promise @sandyhook]

A gunman opened fire on young children sitting in pews as they attended back-to-school mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, today, killing two children aged 8 and 10, and wounding at least 17 other people, 14 of whom were children.

[National Safe Schools Conference (NSSC) @SafeSchoolsConf]

We’re looking forward to an incredible start to the National Safe Schools Conference tomorrow! 🔐🍎

✨ #NSSC2025 #NationalSafeSchoolsConference #NSSC #SchoolSafetyMatters ✨

[Aslan @AslanProtects]

We've raised $2.4M from @2048vc, @BoxGroup, @rahul, and others to see the signal before the siren, starting with mass shootings.

Unspeakable tragedies have become a defining feature of modern life. Knowing about and stopping them before they happen is the way out.

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

Stopping mass shootings and similar threats is an important mission and one I’m proud to support.

[Atoms Not Bits @AtomsNotBits]

Daily Hard Tech Headlines:

- Lumina (@ahmedshubber25) has launched the ML6, a 32-ton modular electric dozer that integrates with their autonomy stack.

- Rohde & Schwarz launched ARDRONIS Wi-Fi, a new system to detect and counter Wi-Fi-controlled drones.

- IonQ has announced a partnership with Einride to create quantum computing solutions that enhance the efficiency of autonomous and electric freight fleets.

- Sanmina plans to buy ZT Systems’ data center manufacturing unit from AMD in a deal worth up to $3 billion.

- @PalantirTech received a $795 million contract modification to provide Maven Smart System software licenses for the U.S. Army.

- McNally Capital, the Chicago-based private equity firm, has invested in Quiet Professionals, LLC. Quiet Professionals develops technology in data analytics, geospatial solutions, operational mission support, and more across the defense end market.

- GDX Development has secured $1.9M Direct to PHII SBIR Contract with the U.S. Army, the contract focuses on developing "resilient, secure, and sensor-integrated networks at the tactical edge"

- Jeremy Kaner has launched Rebuild Capital, a special situations investment firm focused on property and construction technology.

- Aslan has raised $2.4M, the startup is focused on "helping those on the frontlines see the signal before the siren, starting with mass shootings and other mass casualty acts."

- Researchers at University of Tennessee, Knoxville have developed an automated nanoindentation system that uses real-time image analysis and machine learning to focus on specific microstructural features. The team includes Sergei Kalinin, Vivek Chawla, and Stephen Puplampu.

- Germany has tasked HENSOLDT with upgrading the capabilities of the ASUL system, a modular solution for countering drones

- The United States Marine Corps has tapped Mack Defense, LLC to produce two prototypes for its Medium Tactical Truck program, an effort to upgrade and eventually replace its older medium-duty vehicles.