TYSONS CORNER, Va., August 6, 2026 — Verix Equity Partners (“Verix”), a lower middle market private equity firm focused on partnering with founder-owned businesses across the national security and technology ecosystems, has announced a strategic investment in Syntasa (the “Company”), a sovereign agentic AI and data platform deployed at scale across commercial and government enterprises. The McLean Group served as the exclusive financial advisor to Syntasa on the transaction. The transaction represents Verix’s inaugural platform investment, with Syntasa founder Jay Marwaha continuing to lead the Company as chief executive officer and retaining significant ownership alongside Verix. Terms were not disclosed.

The partnership with Syntasa reflects Verix’s thesis-driven approach to markets where technology, mission requirements, and national security are converging. As government becomes AI-first and enterprises confront rising concerns around data sovereignty, vendor lock-in, and AI governance, the organizations with the most consequential data need platforms that bring the AI to the data — never the reverse. This reflects the reality that AI is only as secure, as decisive, and as trusted as the data it can reach.

“Syntasa is uniquely positioned for the next phase of enterprise AI adoption,” said Jeff Hart, managing partner of Verix. “The challenge for mission-critical organizations is no longer simply gaining access to powerful models — it is confidently integrating AI with their most sensitive data, systems and workflows without sacrificing security, sovereignty or control. Syntasa provides the trusted data and agentic AI foundation to do exactly that, combining an open, model-agnostic architecture with the ability to deploy sovereign and open-source AI across public cloud, private infrastructure, air-gapped environments and the edge. We developed a deep thesis around this market and pursued Syntasa proactively because we believe its platform can become foundational infrastructure for how government agencies and global enterprises securely operationalize AI.”

Managing Partner Sean Battle noted, “Syntasa is exactly the kind of company Verix was built to back — a founder-led business operating where our most important national priorities and commercial technology converge. The national security community is moving at unprecedented speed to field AI, and it is calling on private capital and commercial technology to move with it. For more than a decade, Jay and his team have quietly built something rare: an open platform trusted in the most demanding classified environments that also delivers measurable results for some of the world’s largest enterprises. As our inaugural platform, Syntasa sets the standard for what we intend to build — next-generation platforms that create value for mission operators across the defense and intelligence communities, for commercial partners, and for the United States and its allies.”

Syntasa renders enterprise and mission data continuously AI-ready, prepared, governed, and orchestrated, ensuring that any model or agent, whether Syntasa’s own or a customer’s, performs securely and at scale. For the Company’s government and commercial customers, the partnership means continuity in everything they rely on today, with significantly greater investment in everything that comes next.

Verix and Syntasa will invest heavily behind the Company’s growth and technology, including accelerated research and development in sovereign AI, agentic workflows, and secure deployment across the Company’s open, model-agnostic architecture. Investment will also support expanded go-to-market capacity across the national security community and commercial enterprise markets and targeted acquisitions that extend the platform’s capabilities across the sovereign data and AI ecosystem.

Proskauer Rose served as legal counsel to Verix, with additional legal, financial and strategic advisory from Morrison & Foerster, Ernst & Young, and ADG Partners, respectively. Syntasa was advised by Dorsey on legal matters, with The McLean Group serving as exclusive financial advisor to Syntasa.