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Legion Intelligence (FKA Yurts)

legionintel.com

Legion builds governed agentic AI that executes mission workflows across secure systems for defense and national-security teams.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$195M
7 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 4d ago
Specialization
Security
Business
Agent Toolingand 1 more business values
  • Software Applications
Market
Defenseand 1 more market values
  • Government
Ecosystem
Agents
Customers
Governmentsand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Agents
Business
Agent Tooling, Software Applications
Specialization
Security
Market
Defense, Government
Customers
Governments, Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, On Premise Software
Revenue models
Not classified
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
$50M-$200M

About

Legion Intelligence builds a governed, model-agnostic agentic AI platform that connects to mission systems and deploys agents to execute operational workflows. It sells to defense, national-security, government, and regulated-enterprise customers, differentiating through secure deployment across sensitive networks—from cloud to fully air-gapped edge—and attributed human oversight.

Market

Legion competes in governed agentic AI for national security, defense, intelligence, and other mission-critical enterprise workflows. It positions itself as an operational layer that connects existing systems and data, executes multi-step work through agents, supports multiple model providers, and keeps humans in command rather than acting primarily as a chat or model vendor. Its main differentiation is secure deployment from cloud and on-premises environments to air-gapped, classified, and tactical-edge networks, combined with model flexibility, attribution, and auditability.

Target Customers

Legion primarily targets federal defense, intelligence, and national-security organizations, as well as large aerospace, manufacturing, and maintenance/repair/overhaul operators with complex, sensitive workflows. Likely buyers include mission and operations leaders, government program owners, and enterprise IT/security teams that need deployable AI under strict data-sovereignty, compliance, and human-oversight requirements.

At a Glance

Problem

Legion Intelligence addresses the difficulty of putting AI to work inside national-security and other mission-critical organizations whose data is siloed across legacy systems and whose operations run in classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments. Generic AI tools typically inform users through chat but do not safely execute work across systems, leaving personnel to search, reconcile information, produce reports, and coordinate actions manually. The resulting pain is slower decision-making, high cognitive load, and expensive operational overhead, especially when connectivity is denied or missions are time-sensitive.

The main use case is compressing high-volume defense workflows such as intelligence production, operational reporting, logistics coordination, and command-and-control support. The company cites a DOD Special Operations unit that reduced scenario error checks from 16 hours to under 10 minutes, and reports customer operational savings of up to 60 percent—an indication that the economic value comes from reducing coordination time and freeing skilled personnel for judgment rather than production.

Product / Service

Legion sells a governed, model-agnostic agentic AI platform. It connects to an organization’s existing systems and data, retrieves context from authorized sources, and deploys agents that can navigate databases, draft reports, coordinate logistics, update records, and route information across workflows. Humans define objectives and constraints, approve consequential actions, and retain the ability to pause, override, or redirect agents; every action and approval is logged for attribution and auditability.

The delivery model is designed for sensitive environments rather than assuming a public cloud. Legion can run in cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, classified, and tactical-edge settings, with no customer data leaving its environment and no requirement to use a particular LLM. Its Centurion offering packages the platform for disconnected and intermittently connected edge operations, allowing workflows and models to run locally and preserve decision support when networks are unavailable. The benefit is a transition from AI that merely answers questions to AI that executes coordinated operational work while keeping humans in command.

Market

Legion competes in secure enterprise AI, defense and government AI integration, and the emerging category of governed agent-orchestration platforms. Its primary customers are national-security organizations and regulated enterprises that need AI embedded in existing systems, with deployments cited across the U.S. Army, Air Force, Department of Energy, and special operations forces from unclassified through IL-6 environments. The closest adjacent platforms are Palantir’s AI and Apollo stack and Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem; Legion also partnered with Palantir to deploy its capabilities for U.S. Special Operations, suggesting that the competitive landscape includes both overlap and interoperability rather than a simple head-to-head market.

This is not a pre-revenue concept based on the available evidence: the former Yurts announced a $40 million Series B and $58 million in total funding, reported multi-year contracts with USSOCOM and other government customers, and described a first enterprise-wide generative-AI deployment at U.S. Special Operations Command. The company rebranded as Legion Intelligence in April 2025 as it expanded from an AI-integration platform into coordinated agentic workflows, and its reported contracts, secure-network deployments, customer savings, and commercial partnership with Oracle indicate production traction, although no revenue figure is disclosed in the evidence gathered.

Founders & Leadership

Ben Van RooFounder
CEO & Founder
Jason SchnitzerFounder
CTO & Founder
Guruprasad RaghavanFounder
Lead Research Scientist and Founder
Steve MahoneyVP of Product
Nick WeirVice President of Mission Engineering
Brian LampertVice President of Sales and Business Development

Funding History

Undisclosed
Pre-SeedApproximately $2M (inferred)
2023-09
Series A$16M

Nava Ventures

2024-12
Series B$40M

XYZ Venture Capital

Active Roles

7
Washington D.C./Forward-Deployed Engineer/89d ago
Southeastern US Area/Sales Engineer/93d ago
Washington D.C./Customer Success Manager/122d ago

Business Model

The company monetizes access to its agentic AI platform using pricing that scales with network scope and user count, with no hidden fees. It also generates revenue through enterprise and government contracts, including a contract extension with the United States Special Operations Command.

Products

Legion Governed Agentic AI PlatformMission Packs: role-specific AI-agent packagesCenturion III: ultra-small-form-factor edge AI systemLegion Multiplayer: shared human-and-agent work surface

Customers

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)U.S. Department of EnergyU.S. Air ForceU.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)XVIII Airborne CorpsCivil Affairs Training Cadre

Tech Stack

Agentic AI agents and multi-agent workflow orchestrationMulti-model LLM serving, including GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral, open-source, proprietary, and custom modelsRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG), governed search, and data-context retrievalAPI-based integrations with SaaS, on-premises, mission, legacy, and custom systemsHuman-in-the-loop governance, permissions, auditability, observability, and guardrailsCloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, classified, and tactical-edge deployment

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Key Investors

XYZ Ventures, Glynn Capital, Nava Ventures, Mango Capital, Norwest