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Cleatus funding, valuation and investors

Arlington agentic AI platform for government contracting — opportunity discovery, proposal writing, and federal capture workflows.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Seed

$4M · May 2025

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$4M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed · Arlington, VA

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Las Olas Venture Capital , REVO Capital

Other: Motley Fool Ventures

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-29

Overview

Cleatus (CLEATUS AI) is an agentic AI operating system for government contractors — automating federal, state, and local opportunity discovery, competitor award analysis, proposal drafting, and contract management. Founded in 2023 by Yigit Guney, Erik Sherman, and Mithat Cakmak, the Arlington, Virginia company grew from construction-site pain (missing federal bids while on job sites) into a full govcon workflow platform. The team pursued FedRAMP High authorization as a prerequisite for venture scale. In May 2025 Cleatus raised a $4M seed co-led by Las Olas Venture Capital and REVO Capital, with Motley Fool Ventures (Alexandria, VA) participating.

Why Cleatus is interesting

Construction-operator-turned-founder Yigit Guney hit $1M revenue before raising — $4M seed (May 2025) co-led by Las Olas VC and REVO Capital with Motley Fool Ventures, built for FedRAMP High compliance in the Clarendon govcon corridor.

Key facts

  • Seed (May 2025): $4M co-led by Las Olas Venture Capital and REVO Capital; Motley Fool Ventures participated — Technical.ly
  • HQ Arlington, VA (Clarendon office); $1M revenue before seed raise
  • FedRAMP High pursuit as scale milestone — not a consumer govtech toy
  • Complements Pryzm (/startup/pryzm) in federal capture software — different founder path and product wedge

Funding history (newest first)

Seed

2025-05 $4M
  • Las Olas Venture Capital (lead)
  • REVO Capital (lead)
  • Motley Fool Ventures (participant)

Source: https://technical.ly/entrepreneurship/cleatus-aims-to-be-the-ai-operating-system-for-govcon/

Industries

Enterprise SaaS AI & Machine Learning Defense Tech

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Arlington, Virginia — Clarendon area, in the Northern Virginia govcon corridor near federal buyers.
Both sell federal capture software. Pryzm (/startup/pryzm) targets defense primes and agencies with IL5/FedRAMP High and a16z American Dynamism backing. Cleatus focuses on SMB/mid-market govcon automation with a construction-founder origin story.
$4M seed (May 2025) co-led by Las Olas Venture Capital and REVO Capital; Motley Fool Ventures participated. None of those firms have /fund/ profiles in our directory yet.
Arlington, VA HQ — counts as DC metro in our city hub aliases (arlington, va). Not a District of Columbia city-limits HQ.
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