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Rich Aves

Co-Founder

Rich is a former Executive Vice President and business development lead for Parsons’ Defense & Intelligence (D&I) business unit. Rich developed and lead execution of the company’s overall growth strategy for this business unit and delivered over $1.4B in annual sales. Prior to this role, he served in general manager roles as the business P&L leader for two different business sectors within Parsons. Rich came to Parsons as part of the acquisition of OGSystems® where he served in multiple Partner roles, the last of which was as their Chief Growth Officer. Rich began his professional career as a Navy P-3C Naval Flight Officer and has a deep background in national space systems.

Rich holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from George Mason University.

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Steve Martin

Co-Founder

Former COO of OGSystems and Senior Vice President at Parsons. Steve worked his way up the corporate ladder holding every position from individual contributor on project to the strategic and operational lead for OGSystems. He left Parsons in 2020 and spent the last several years mentoring small business founders and evaluating companies for Private Equity partners. Prior to his career in business, Steve served as an officer in the Marine Corps. He is a husband and father of two (Hi Adora, Maddie and Miles) and a terrible but committed golfer.

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Garrett Pagon

Co-Founder

Co-Founder and CEO of OGSystems, a geospatial intelligence and threat warning developer for defense customers. Grew to over 500 employees before being acquired in 2019. Co-Founder of GeoSpark, a SaaS company built on a global risk analytics platform that has merged with Control Risks to form Seerist, a global leader in risk identification and opportunity management. Operating partner at Spike Ventures and Ankona Capital.  

Why block 3?

We’ve done this before as start-up founders, scale-up leaders, venture partners, and large defense company executives. We love pushing boundaries on the technical edge to find and build transformative warfighter solutions.

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Our mission

Build and scale digital warfare products that equip and maintain America as the best fighting force in the world.

Leadership

In the digital age, success requires speed. We know how to flatten the command structure and empower decision-making at every organizational level. Finding the edge means relentlessly executing the best ideas from any altitude in the organization.

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Steve Martin

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Rich Aves

Co-Founder

Track record

Solutions are not just technical and need engineers, analysts, and executives to share a common vision. This is culture, and we know how to take promising start ups to the next level.

30%

Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) as C-Suite for over 10 year period at multiple companies.

6x

Multiple on Invested Capital (MOIC) for Private Equity placement in 5 year span.

95%

Retention of clients and employees  due to an obsessive focus on experience.

500M

Increased new award bookings from $900M to $1.4B in 2 years as growth executives.

Culture is best when it is intentional and pervasive. Employees and clients know the difference. At OGSystems we treated culture like a client problem that needed to be solved. We did R&D, created a strategic and ops plan, invested in solutions, and empowered our leaders. The result was a company that felt the same at 500+ employees as it did at 50.

Previous Wins And Case Studies

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes, and our track record of operating companies that have succeeded by disrupting the status quo provide insight into our future partnerships and investments.

PeARL Flash software Dashboard

OGSYSTEMS

Role: Founder, C-Suite, Board
Outcome: Acquired by Parsons

Example Solution: PeARL 3D aerial imaging system
Sensor agnostic, 2D/3D enterprise level image processing system. High resolution Electro-Optical imagery collection system for fixed wing and drone platforms. PeARL Flash 3D image generation tool that develops precision geo-registered point clouds from any FMV source. The PeARL product line enables the fusion of multi sensor content into a single, dynamic 3D processing pipeline that continuously delivers the most accurate and high fidelity product into the hands of military, intelligence, civil and humanitarian mission planning teams.

taser

Role: Founder, C-Suite, Board
Outcome: Acquired by Ball Aerospace

Example Solution: Global Navigation System (GNS) GNS upgraded and expanded the current Aeronautical and Maritime Safety of Navigation (SoN) data stores, processes, and foundation procedures. We led development of the One-Feature-One-Time database, a data model that maximized data storage and provided the ability to create multiple representations for different mapping products using the same feature. This led the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to modernize from product-centric to data-centric SoN systems.

ANKONA

Role: Operating Partner
Outcome: Initial Fund Operational

Example Solution: SOCi hyper local advertising SaaS
SOCi is a leading software company specializing in local marketing solutions for multi-location enterprises. They are changing how  customers use software, and has officially morphed its Marketing Cloud to a CoMarketing Cloud. Their proprietary Genius A.I. layer analyzes all the data at every location, creates recommendations, and executes top priority tasks for the brand. Genius does the work for clients, and when its a Multi-Location brand with 1,000+ locations, then SOCi does the work of 1,000 marketers.

Seerist mobile application in use.

GeoSpark analytics

Role: Founder, Board
Outcome: Merger to form Seerist

Example Solution: Seerist Risk Analytics SaaS Platform
An augmented analytics threat and risk intelligence platform that forecasts potential global threats and enables rapid, reliable decision-making. Seerist's data feeds and advanced analytics help large organizations and government agencies manage geopolitical and physical risks by forecasting potential threats and offering contextualized event intelligence. Through features like Source Reliability and Context, Seerist has improved analysis and predictions about significant global events.

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