Hidden Level Joins the IQT Portfolio

Hidden Level, a Veteran Ventures Capital Fund I portfolio company and the developer of passive radar, RF detection and distributed sensing for airspace and spectrum awareness, announced on August 13 that it has joined the IQT portfolio. The company described the relationship as one that had operated behind the scenes for years before being made official.

IQT, the strategic investor for the U.S. national security community, has spent more than 25 years identifying and accelerating emerging commercial technologies that can deliver critical capabilities to government partners in the United States and allied nations. Its portfolio decisions reflect mission demand from the agencies it serves, which makes the addition a meaningful signal about where passive RF sensing sits in the intelligence community's priorities.

The announcement came two weeks after the Department of War awarded Hidden Level a $100 million Other Transaction Authority agreement to deliver counter-UAS sensing across the Department, and one week before Hidden Level's Chief Strategy Officer, Brad Garber, discussed the company's growth on the "Last Week in D.C." podcast. In that conversation he noted that Hidden Level operated a single facility when it entered the APFIT program and is now preparing to open its fifth, and that every sensor delivered to Department customers to date has been delivered early.

Hidden Level is headquartered in Syracuse, New York. Veteran Ventures Capital first invested in the company through Fund I in 2023.

Sources: Hidden Level on LinkedIn; Last Week in D.C..

Concept image: VVC, based on Hidden Level product references