Published Jun 23, 2026, 5:01 AM EDT
A technology company started by an ex-Green Beret has built a data and intelligence platform as an investment tool.
For decades, investors have had to make educated guesses on which companies will receive the federal government's next big defense contracts. These are often million-dollar or even billion-dollar decisions that can move capital markets virtually overnight. The technology company HighGround has built a data and intelligence platform that takes a deeper dive into defense capital markets, recently landing $6.5 million dollars in seed funding to collect budget, procurement and vendor information from hundreds of federal sources and add them into a single interface for investors to understand and predict where the market is moving. Those investors, in theory, can use the data to make sound, profitable investments. “Defense deserves the same analytical foundation that equity research and private credit have had for decades,” HighGround co-founder and CEO John Price told Military.com. “The government tells you exactly what it's going to buy, when, and from whom. "What's been missing is the infrastructure to turn that signal into conviction. And that's what we built.”
