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Firm News 23 results

Firm News | 1 min read | 11.24.25

Crowell & Moring Represents Aptible in Strategic Combination With Opti9

November 24, 2025: Crowell & Moring LLP represented Aptible, a leading provider of secure cloud infrastructure solutions for developers and engineering teams, in connection with its strategic combination with Opti9, a leading cloud solutions provider. This partnership marks a significant milestone for Aptible, enabling it to leverage Opti9’s scale and resources to accelerate innovation and expand its roadmap of cloud offerings. Through this combination, Aptible’s customer base will continue to benefit from the company’s reliable platform and service while gaining access to an even broader suite of managed cloud solutions tailored for modern engineering needs. The combination unlocks new opportunities for Aptible to invest in advanced features, including secure managed AI workloads, universal cloud infrastructure management, and proactive recommendations improving reliability, security, and cost efficiency for its customers.
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Firm News | 1 min read | 06.30.25

DataBahn.ai Raises $17M Series A To Advance Security-Native Data Pipelines

DataBahn.ai, a leader in AI-powered, security-native data pipeline platforms for modern enterprises, has secured $17 million in Series A funding led by Forgepoint Capital, with participation from S3 Ventures and GTM Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $19 million. Crowell represented Forgepoint Capital, a leading venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future, in the transaction. The investment will accelerate DataBahn.ai’s product roadmap for agentic AI—autonomous agents that automate data engineering tasks—and support global expansion as the company cements its position as a trusted foundation for enterprise data pipelines. Already trusted by Fortune 50 and Global 2000 organizations, DataBahn.ai’s technology has helped customers reduce telemetry processing costs by over 50%, automate most data engineering workloads, and eliminate blind spots across SIEM, observability, and AI pipelines.

Firm News | 1 min read | 06.18.25

Crowell & Moring Represents Conveyor in $20M Series B

Crowell & Moring represented Conveyor, a leader in AI-powered customer trust workflows for security reviews and RFPs, in successfully raising $20 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to $40 million. This round was led by SignalFire, with participation from Oregon Venture Fund and Cervin Ventures. The investment will fuel Conveyor's expansion in AI research, engineering, and go-to-market initiatives, supporting the development of its AI Agents, Sue and Phil.

Client Alerts 6 results

Client Alert | 6 min read | 07.22.25

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Expands Favorable QSBS Treatment

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), after it was passed by Congress on July 3, 2025. Notably, the Act made significant and welcome changes from the perspective of startup company stockholders and venture capital investors to the qualified small business stock (“QSBS”) rules set forth in Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 1202. In a nutshell, the changes modernize (by adjusting for inflation) and expand the already favorable tax treatment for QSBS under Code Section 1202. The Act also permanently reinstates elective expensing for qualifying domestic research and experimental expenditures that will likely help more startups in research and capital intensive sectors qualify for favorable QSBS treatment.
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 07.05.23

Venture Capital Firms and Non-Traditional Defense Technology Contractors Push for DoD Procurement Reform and Defense Industrial Base Expansion

On June 23, 2023, a coalition of companies, including venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Founders Fund, and start-up defense technology companies, published an open letter to the Department of Defense (DoD), addressed to Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, petitioning DoD to consider procurement reform to help “overcome barriers to innovation.”  The group asserts these barriers create “antiquated methods for developing requirements and selecting technologies that have drastically limited” DoD’s access to “the best commercial innovation.”  In particular, the coalition endorsed adopting four recommendations pulled from a report by The Atlantic Council, a non-partisan international affairs think tank.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 12.08.22

Department of Defense Establishes Office of Strategic Capital to Enhance Investment in National Security Critical Technology

On December 1, 2022, Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III announced the establishment of the DoD Office of Strategic Capital (OSC).  The mission statement of the OSC is to build an “enduring technical advantage” for the United States by helping partner contractors with private investment to develop national security critical technologies, including those related to advanced materials, next-generation biotechnology, and quantum science.  OSC will coordinate with existing organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which promotes acceleration of the military use of commercial technologies.
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Publications 2 results

Publication | 01.30.22

Emerging Companies 101: 6 Avoidable Mistakes

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Events 1 result

Event | 03.18.24, 6:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT

Payload Space Capitol III

Join Payload at their third Space Capitol event, hosted by Crowell, where we will bring together emerging space companies and the government for a thought leadership and networking experience.

Webinars 1 result

Webinar | 02.25.25, 1:00 PM EST - 2:30 PM EST

First 100 Days: Navigating New Frontiers: Life Sciences in the Trump Era

Please join us for a post-Election webinar with the heads of our Government Affairs group who will address the myriad of areas in the Life Sciences industry that will likely be impacted by the new administration, including FDA, NIH, drug pricing, imports, and exports.

Speaking Engagements 1 result