Hidden Level

Summary

About

About Hidden Level

Hidden Level develops passive RF sensing networks for low-altitude airspace awareness. Its sensors detect aircraft and drone transmissions, estimate the operator's location and deliver the resulting tracks to monitoring teams.

Distributed deployments provide coverage without relying on a single radar installation, allowing public-safety, defence and critical-infrastructure operators to see activity across a wider area. Hidden Level's software turns radio-frequency observations into detection, geolocation and response data for ongoing airspace monitoring.

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Funding

Investors

  • Booz Allen Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03
  • Costanoa Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03
  • DFJ Growth - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03
  • Founders Circle Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03
  • Revolution Growth - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03
  • Veteran Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03
  • Washington Harbour Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-02-03

Team

  • Brad Garber - COO - Garber leads operations for Hidden Level as it scales passive RF sensing platforms for defense, aviation, and public-sector customers.
  • Mike Goll - CFO - Goll leads finance and business operations for Hidden Level across government and commercial RF-sensing markets.
  • Jeff Cole - CEO / Co-founder - Cole leads Hidden Level passive RF sensing work for defense, aviation, intelligence, critical infrastructure, and public-safety markets.
  • Kevin May - VP of Products and Programs - May leads product and program delivery for Hidden Level hardware and software platforms sold into commercial, federal, and DoD markets.
  • Tim Graham - CTO - Graham leads technical development for Hidden Level passive RF sensing and airspace-monitoring systems.

Timeline

Events

  • 2026-07-30 - Contract Award - Hidden Level secures $100m Pentagon-wide drone-detection OTA

    The Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering sponsored the OTA through Army Contracting Command. The agreement provides a Pentagon-wide ordering vehicle for Breaker, Surge, BYOTx and Airspace Monitoring Service capabilities. Hidden Level said initial task orders worth several million dollars had already been placed.

    Source
  • 2025-02-03 - Funding - Hidden Level raises $65M Series C

    DFJ Growth led the Series C with participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Revolution Growth, Costanoa Ventures and other investors. The round followed a $35 million Series B and brought Hidden Level funding over the prior 12 months to $100 million. Hidden Level tied the capital to drone-detection systems for national-security and critical-infrastructure customers.

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Relations

Relationships

  • United States Department of Defense

    Drone Detection Customer - The U.S. Defense Department awarded Hidden Level a $100 million agreement for passive drone-detection systems.

Context

Comparable profiles

Shared workflows

Context tags

  • Counter-UAS mission systems - Workflow - Profile source supports this robotics context.
  • Drone subsystem integration - Capability - Profile source supports this robotics context.

Commercial

1 commercial event; 1 contract award; latest event 2026-07-30

  • 2026-07-30 - Contract award - Hidden Level secures $100m Pentagon-wide drone-detection OTA - source: tectonicdefense.com