Critical Technologies Advisory
We guide founders through scale and liquidity in an increasingly complex technology landscape.
KAL provides a single source of truth for teams building critical and emerging technologies for both commercial and national security domains. We advise teams on strategic M&A, venture and growth capital raising, and emphasize optionality. Our team brings operational technology and transaction experience to help founders navigate the next stage of their business.
Our goal is to be the most effective financial advisory resource for founders building what must make it to market.
Critical and Emerging Technologies Experience
We’ve advised emerging OEMs, subsystem developers, and niche providers of both hardware and software for mission data lifecycles.
Top markets for critical technologies:
Hypersonics & Advanced Propulsion
Developers of manned and unmanned hypersonic vehicles, RAM/SCRAM jets, missiles, advanced turbine, liquid and solid rocket motors, and critical platform components
Autonomous Systems
Developers of software and hardware enabling autonomous vehicle behavior, including UAS, UGV, UUV/USV, and platform-agnostic software
Advanced Computing
Developers enabling next gen compute, from processing hardware to critical platform and application software
Power Generation & Energy Storage
Nuclear, battery storage, fuel cells, energy management, thermal management
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Composite materials, advanced alloys, additive manufacturing, manufacturing automation technologies
Critical Tech Sub-Sectors
Our critical technologies vertical focuses on early-stage businesses on the journey to scale. We help navigate M&A and capital raise efforts in the context of their business stage and product segment.
Sub-Sectors we work with:
Uncrewed Systems
Autonomy
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Advanced Computing
Hypersonics
Integrated Sensing
Microelectronics