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Ex-DOGE Employees Are Raising $130 Million for an AI Security Company | Vanity Fair
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The engineers who wreaked havoc on Washington are ready for their second act.
Save this story Save this story Some of Elon Musk’s earliest Department of Government Efficiency recruits are plotting their next act: getting into the business of war. Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, and Jack Stein, three of the young engineers who helped take an axe to the federal workforce last year, are raising $130 million for a new AI start-up backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, according to several sources with knowledge of the funding round. The company will focus on using AI to secure government systems against national security threats, one source sa
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