There are a number of financial benchmarks that validate the growth of a startup, and as venture investors, these are all of course important to our firm. But from the earliest days of Homebrew we've aspired to back entrepreneurs who think not just about the impact success has on their bank accounts and their speaker bios, but on the world as a whole. ShieldAI has always been a company which overflows the "mission-driven" bucket, since its founding days when one brother, returning from military deployment, asked his sibling a tear-producing question. "Can we use technology to gather information instead of putting our soldiers and civilians in danger?"