Integrate Secures $17M Series A to Modernize Defense Project Collaboration

John Conafay founded Integrate after repeatedly encountering cumbersome document exchanges and unsecured workflows while coordinating aerospace and defense programs. The company’s product is tailored to let government entities and private contractors work together on classified, multi-party programs without exposing sensitive information across participants. Last year the startup captured a meaningful contract with the U.S. Space Force—an award worth $25 million over five years—which provided operational validation inside the defense procurement ecosystem. That endorsement helped attract a $17 million Series A round led by FPV Ventures, giving Integrate both capital and a high-profile investor with a history of early-stage wins. Integrate’s architecture emphasizes fine-grained access controls and concurrent coordination of complex schedules and deliverables, aiming at mega-projects that involve hundreds or thousands of contributors. Its product positioning targets long-lived, high-consequence programs in aerospace and national security where traditional SaaS project tools lack required security and compartmentalization. The company says its platform supports orchestration tasks such as synchronizing multiple payloads across launches and coordinating vast partner networks, which are operationally intense and sensitive. Strategically, Integrate is pursuing expansion across other U.S. military branches and the intelligence community while offering a gateway product for prime contractors and subsystem suppliers. The combination of a government contract and venture backing reduces early commercial risk but raises exposure to procurement timelines and program concentration. Technically, Integrate’s head start creates a nontrivial reengineering hurdle for general-purpose project-management vendors that would need to redesign core controls rather than bolt on features. That moat should deliver time to product-market fit in defense adjacencies, though scaling into broader government markets will require navigating compliance regimes and long sales cycles. If Integrate converts technical validation into repeatable procurement wins and diversified contracts, it could set a template for secure, multi-entity project collaboration across high-assurance sectors.