Firestorm Labs

Firestorm Labs is a high-potential defense technology company with verified traction, including a $47M Series A (July 2025) and a $100M IDIQ contract with the U.S. Air Force (Jan 2025). The project's 'factory-in-a-box' (xCell) and modular UAS technology solve critical supply chain and manufacturing problems for the DoD, demonstrating exceptional real-world utility and timing. However, the PoU score is dampened by the extremely poor quality of the submission itself, which contained false claims ('most people have used my product', 'audience: everyone') and lacked data, forcing a penalty on Response Quality and a reduction in the Evidence of Traction quality factor despite the strong external reality.