Today, Shift5 announced that it was listed on the 2024 LinkedIn Top Startups List in Washington D.C.
LinkedIn Top Startups City Edition identifies companies that are growing fast, shaping the future of their industries, and recruiting top talent along the way across local geographies. Inclusion on this list highlights Shift5’s innovation, growth, and commitment to enabling observability for onboard operational technology (OT) for military and commercial transportation infrastructure companies.
Shift5 is on a mission to enable safer, more reliable fleets:
- The Problem: Our national security and economic prosperity depend on the reliability and readiness of military and commercial transportation fleets. Aircraft, locomotives, weapon systems, and maritime vessels generate massive volumes of data that could reveal critical cybersecurity and operational insights, but that data remains hidden within complex networks of disparate components with proprietary architectures and protocols, making it nearly impossible for operators to access, make sense of, and use effectively.
- Our Solution: Shift5 liberates OT data for commercial transportation and military operators. We do this through a unique model that brings order and clarity to the complexity of onboard data generated by commercial aerospace, rail, maritime, and defense platforms with real-time decision intelligence, to improve fleet availability, resilience, and safety.
- The Shift5 Platform: The observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT), enabling smarter, faster decisions through real-time data access, contextual insights, and actionable analytics at the edge for commercial aviation, rail, and defense fleets.
Shift5’s founding roots were in U.S. Army Cyber Command and its strong mission focus on national security—developed within the Department of Defense—continues to drive the company’s ethos. Today 22% of the Shift5 team are Department of Defense (DoD) veterans, while others bring valuable perspectives from past careers at Palantir, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Recorded Future, Palo Alto Networks, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics, US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Armis, Tanium, and more.
Shift5 is relentlessly committed to building mission outcomes for customers. Recruiting top talent to the company is a major part of how Shift5 executes on its mission. According to Ronak Shah, Shift5’s Senior Director of Research, “we put endless amounts of effort into finding the right people to bring into Shift5. We want to find people with a niche set of skills, coupled with a bespoke and specific set of operational technology experience. There’s a very small population of people that fit the bill, and when you find them, it’s like nirvana.”
Shift’s vision is a smarter, safer, and more securely connected world. If you’re interested in joining the team to participate in the mission and enable the vision, learn more about our open roles here: shift5.io/careers/.