ABOUT INTELLIGRC

It started with a grant, a deadline, and a tool that didn’t exist.

So we built it. 165 small defense contractors later, it became a company, and the practitioners who lived that problem are still the ones building the answer.

FRAMEWORKS IN PRODUCTION

MISSION
Unchanged since 2016

To empower organizations to confidently navigate cybersecurity compliance through

intelligent solutions, honest expertise,

and

unwavering support

ORIGIN
Virginia NIST MEP → DEFEND CUI-VA

We didn’t set out to build software. We set out to get 165 manufacturers through an audit.

Our founder, Ozzie Saeed, was working with Virginia’s NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership on DoD grant funding, helping small defense manufacturers meet DFARS 252.204-7012 and NIST SP 800-171. The kind of shops where the person responsible for compliance is also the person responsible for the CNC machine.

Traditional compliance consulting could not reach them. It was too slow, too expensive, and it ended in a binder nobody could act on. So we built a tool that could do the assessment, produce a real System Security Plan, and hand back a POA&M a shop floor could actually work from.

Sixty-five companies got through it the first year. More than a hundred the next. That was the moment the tool stopped being a grant deliverable and started being a product.

Scaling it surfaced two problems bigger than any one manufacturer. There are not enough trained compliance practitioners in the country to meet the demand. And the MSPs who already hold the keys to these environments were never given the framework expertise to serve them. IntelliGRC exists to close both gaps at once, which is why we are built provider-first, for the MSPs and MSSPs doing this work at scale.

650

Contractors assessed in year one

1000

In year two, on the same tool

100

Years, one unchanged mission

$3.5M

Seed round closed, 2026

RECORD
2016 → 2026

Ten years of growth.

2016

Incubated at Tiber Creek Consulting

The idea gets a roof over its head and a first set of real users.

2018

Core v1.0 ships · DEFEND CUI-VA launches

The assessment engine goes live, and the Virginia CUI defense program puts it in front of the manufacturers it was built for.

2019

Data model greenlit

The asset-centric model that lets one assessment serve many frameworks – the decision everything since has been built on.

2023

Scanner Tool releases · Blue Ridge CC partnership

Evidence collection gets automated, and we start building the practitioner pipeline the industry is short on.

2026

v2.0 releases · $3.5M seed closes

A multi-tenant, AI-assisted platform, and a cap table made almost entirely of the operators who use it.

BACKED BY
$3.5M seed · closed 2026

Our seed round was not led by tourists. It was led by the people who build and secure IT for a living, and who will be judged by whether this actually works.

Ten of our thirteen angel investors run an MSP, have sold one, or ship security and compliance products themselves. When they wired money, they were betting on a tool they intend to use.

ROUND CO-LEAD

Kyle Hanslovan

Co-Founder & CEO, Huntress

Built the security company the MSP channel runs on – from two founders to a $1.55B valuation. He knows exactly what it takes to earn a provider’s trust, because he had to.

ROUND CO-LEAD

Blu Ventures

Early-stage cybersecurity · Washington, D.C.

Operator-run cyber fund, seed through exit. Backed Huntress from seed to Series D and Socure from seed to Series E. They have made this exact bet before, in this exact market.

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