Some companies chase productivity. Others build for posterity. Integrate decided to build for programs that cost billions, stretch across years, and operate where WiFi is not a given and clearance is currency. That is not a Trello board problem. That is a national security problem.
Integrate just secured $17M in Series A funding led by FPV Ventures, with participation from Fuse VC and Rsquared VC, and continued backing from New Vista, Hyperplane, and Riot Ventures. Respect where it is due. When capital like that shows up, it is not curiosity. It is conviction.
Credit to Founder and CEO John Conafay for seeing what most software founders ignore. Before Integrate, John Conafay served in the U.S. Air Force and later worked across the commercial space ecosystem. He watched launch campaigns and classified programs run on spreadsheets, PDFs, and tools never designed for compartmentalized collaboration. Billions on the line. Teams across primes and subcontractors. And the operational backbone was duct tape in digital form.
So Integrate built something different. A multiplayer program management platform engineered for dynamic, multi-entity execution. Not “collaboration” in the marketing sense. Collaboration on JWICS. On top-secret programs. With fine-grained permissions so every stakeholder sees exactly what they are cleared to see, and nothing more.
The market validated it early. The U.S. Space Force awarded Integrate a $25M, 5-year contract to modernize program execution. The platform now supports launch and satellite missions coordinated by Space Systems Command and the Mission Manifest Office. When the people launching hardware into orbit trust your roadmap, your roadmap carries weight.
Wesley Chan of FPV Ventures is joining the board, and that matters. Wesley Chan has backed generational companies. He understands leverage. He understands timing. Defense tech is no longer a side conversation in venture. It is the main table.
Here is the business lesson hiding in plain sight. Integrate did not start with a vague “future of work” pitch. It anchored itself in a brutal, specific pain point inside a regulated, high-stakes environment. It won a mission-critical contract. Then it raised capital from investors who appreciate asymmetric markets.
For primes, subcontractors, and government program offices wrestling with schedule risk and information silos, Integrate is not another dashboard. It is controlled clarity in environments where ambiguity is expensive.
$17M is fuel. The real story is trajectory. When secure collaboration moves from email threads and static files to real-time, compartmentalized execution, the defense industrial base starts to move with rhythm instead of friction.
