Vigilare AI receives $150,000 at HUSTLE Pitch Day
May 2026
We’re still catching our breath. We just wrapped Pitch Day for Griffiss Institute’s HUSTLE Defense Accelerator, and we’re walking away with $150,000 in funding.
Back in February, we were selected as one of five startups nationwide to join Cohort 5 of HUSTLE, working directly with Air Force Research Laboratory subject-matter experts on Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management (C3BM) problem sets, alongside companies from New York, Colorado, and Texas. These past few months have been a sprint, and today it all came down to ten minutes on stage. Ten minutes is not a lot of time when you’ve spent months living inside the material, we had far more to say than the clock allowed, and it flew by faster than we expected.
Honestly, what we’re most grateful for today wasn’t even the pitch, it was getting to run TitanOps live, before and after our presentation, so the room could see in real time what the platform actually does instead of just hearing us describe it.
The $150,000 is part of $550,000 distributed across this cohort, made possible by Empire State Development, National Grid, and AFRL. What’s it going to do for us? It’s what lets both founders go full-time on this company, starting now. Not a feature, not a hire, the thing that lets us commit completely.
Thank you to Griffiss Institute, AFRL, and everyone who believed in this over the last few months.
