February 5, 2026
Our intelligence system was built for yesterday’s fight.
Born in the industrial age, it still runs like an assembly line from a bygone era:
It’s slow. Inflexible. And irrelevant on the AI‑defined battlefield.
At Whitespace, we’re former intelligence analysts and technologists who asked a different set of questions:
We built Iris to answer them.
Iris is the first AI agent that does intelligence analysis for the warfighter. She applies intelligence tradecraft to commercial maritime, human activity, and geospatial data to answer operational questions without GIS or data science expertise.
Over the last two years, Iris has quietly delivered 1,000+ operational planning products across seven combatant commands, with outputs shared among 50+ partner nations. Together with her human teammates, she has saved tens of thousands of labor hours and millions of dollars in ISR spending—while answering urgent warfighter needs that would have otherwise gone unmet.
Today, we announce an oversubscribed $3.2M seed round to scale Iris across new missions, onboard hardware platforms, and at the edge.
We’ve reimagined intel‑tech for the autonomous battlefield—and now we have the capital to field it.
Nations that master intelligence at machine speed set the terms of deterrence and dominance; those that don’t are outpaced, outmaneuvered, and outmatched.
Whitespace exists to ensure America and her allies lead.
The window is narrow.
The stakes are generational.
The time to act is now.

Jakie Barbieri
Founder