HighGround Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding Led by Next Frontier Capital

The round also saw participation from Tandem Ventures, Fulcrum Capital, and Context Ventures.

The company plans to use the funds to grow its operations and continue developing its products.

Defense has become one of the most competitive and capital-intensive sectors for private equity and venture investors. However, many investment decisions are still based on expert judgment, fragmented government data, and institutional experience.

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It is one of the last major sectors without a modern intelligence layer. HighGround was created with the belief that this traditional way of operating is no longer sufficient.

HighGround is led by Co-Founder and CEO John Price, a former Green Beret and Senate advisor on defense and technology policy. Before founding the company, he worked closely with defense-focused private equity and venture capital firms as a key resource for investment due diligence.

“HighGround is building the intelligence layer this market has needed for decades,” said Les Craig, General Partner at Next Frontier Capital. “John and his team have the fluency on both sides to provide immense value to every allocator, operator, and advisor making high-stakes decisions in the defense market.”

“Defense deserves the same analytical foundation that equity research and private credit have had for decades,” said Price. “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.”

About HighGround

Founded by John Price, HighGround is a data and intelligence platform for defense capital markets. Its technology collects information from more than 500 federal sources, including budgets, procurement data, and vendor signals, and combines it into a single model of how government purchasing works.

The platform delivers insights through a chat interface, an API, and an MCP endpoint that works with AI models like Claude and ChatGPT. HighGround’s goal is to give investors, advisors, and operators the same level of understanding of government markets that Bloomberg provides for public markets.

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