Defense Tech Startup r4 exits Stealth to Streamline Software Licensing for Non-Production Environments | PR Newswire [Video]

, /PRNewswire/ —  r4, a defense tech startup with $1 million in seed funding, emerged from stealth today with a solution that simplifies the procurement and management of non-production software licenses. Now available in private beta, the r4 application and API allow customers using virtualized network infrastructure, IT tools, and security solutions in cyber ranges, academic courses, and development environments to effectively license and manage software, track costs, and organize assets all in one place.

The company is led by co-founders Sean Donnelly and Luke Zirngibl, who’ve both spent the last decade mostly focused on cyber range-related work. “We have substantial founder-market fit. We’re solving a set of problems that we know well and that have existed in this space for a long time with very little progress made. There are many large government and commercial organizations that want the ability to quickly build realistic test and training environments and licensing is a key piece of that,” said …