Long Knife is a national security focused asset management platform. It originates, evaluates and invests in private companies that provide best-in-class defense-specific, and dual-use, technologies.
The founders of Long Knife are committed to generating outsized returns for our investors while ensuring those that serve within national defense, both domestically and among allied nations, have asymmetric, all-domain advantage in support of their missions.
Our name stems from US military history and legend. Continental Army Officer George Rogers Clark was given the moniker "Long Knife," and his ragtag militia the "Long Knives," by Native American tribal leaders as a sign of respect after witnessing their successful military campaigns that defied all odds against the British, securing the Western front and expanding the territory of the 13 colonies during the Revolutionary War. The name has been carried on in military tradition through the US Army’s 4th Squadron of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment.