Aslan
Category: AI in Government / Public Sector
Aslan builds human-supervised agentic AI operatives that pose as analysts and undercover investigators in criminal and adversarial online forums to support FBI and national security investigations. Aslan was founded in 2025. The company is led by Chase Reid. Based in Washington, D.C., USA. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $23.2M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Khosla Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, 2048 Ventures, BoxGroup, Liquid2, Alumni Ventures, Precursor Ventures.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $23.2M
Value proposition
Deploys autonomous AI agents that operate at internet scale to infiltrate, monitor, and map digital criminal and adversarial networks (smuggling rings, illicit finance, foreign intelligence recruitment) faster than human analysts can, surfacing actionable leads to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Products and solutions
Agentic AI platform for digital undercover operations, threat network mapping, cross-border smuggling network detection, technology-transfer/espionage detection, transnational illicit finance investigation, and foreign influence/strategic competition monitoring
Unique value
Human-supervised AI agents that can pose as operatives/analysts inside criminal and adversarial digital communities at a scale no human institution can match, converting passive intelligence fusion into proactive, agentic investigation.
Target customer
Federal law enforcement (FBI), intelligence community, Homeland Security, and defense/national security agencies
Industries served
National Security, Defense & Intelligence, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement
Technology advantage
Agentic AI architecture purpose-built for national security tradecraft (digital persona operation, network mapping) rather than generic enterprise agents; human-in-the-loop supervision for compliance/safety in sensitive government use cases.
How they differentiate
Focuses specifically on covert/undercover digital operative use-cases (posing as analysts and undercover personas in criminal forums and Telegram channels) rather than broader decision-support or ISR-style agentic AI offered by Rebellion Defense and Vannevar Labs.
Main competitors
Rebellion Defense, Vannevar Labs
Key partnerships
FBI and unnamed federal law-enforcement/intelligence agency partners (per company testimonials), not publicly named beyond that.
Notable customers
FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), other unnamed federal law-enforcement and intelligence agency partners
Major milestones
Publicly launched/emerged from stealth September 1, 2026 with $20.8M seed round after operating quietly since founding in 2025.
Market positioning
Early-stage, mission-focused challenger in the national security agentic AI space, positioned as a specialized tool for offensive/undercover digital investigation rather than generalist defense-tech platforms.
Geographic focus
United States (federal government and national security market)
About Chase Reid
Ex-Founder at Creme; Investment Professional at Bain Capital; Associate at Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Research Assistant at American Compass.
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Official website: https://aslanprotects.com
