About Us

United Force facilitates public-private partnerships to build purpose-driven, high-value companies by integrating game changing technologies and visionary talent with venture capital and process execution resulting in transformative companies, high-tech job creation, and most importantly, strong returns for our investors.

Our Mission

The mission of United Force is to turn the best ideas in technology and talent into successful, high growth, high value, high impact companies that will generate superior returns for our investors and benefit all our stakeholders.

Who We Are

The United Force team presents over 100 years of business experience that represents a deep skill set of technical, legal, C-Level and business development expertise in growing new ventures from an idea to early stage, and eventually to successful exits.

What We Do

We have developed, deployed, validated and replicated technology commercialization programs that have been, and can be, seamlessly integrated into each of our existing and future relationships.

How We Do It

Our process expertise serves to ensure our investments are top-tier investment grade and fully capable of accelerated growth through expedited execution.

Our Team

David J. Novak
Managing Director

David founded United Force as a spinoff from his success with Inventis Group LLC, a company founded in 2006 and focused on the development, deployment and validation of technology commercialization programs for Government, Industry, and Universities.
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Christopher Teachout
Managing Director

Christopher has over eleven years of public equity investing experience at Wellington Management Company, LLC and Federated Investors.  He has built an exceptional track record investing in public equities for mutual funds with cumulative AUM of nearly $30 billion.
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Kamil Agi
Senior Advisor

Dr. Agi provides consulting, advisory and commercialization expertise to organizations including DARPA, MIT, STANFORD, UNM and NSF. He is a founding member of the Peace Engineering Consortium and speaks globally as a recognized thought leader on pollution monitoring, industry 4.0 and next-generation IoT.
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David Montanaro
Senior Advisor

David is an entrepreneurial CEO and angel investor with extensive board of director experience. Achieved goals in building, restructuring and turning around high-growth technology businesses based on emerging technologies and market trends. Broad domestic and international corporate management and operational experience.
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Fredrik Synnerstad
Senior Advisor

Fredrik served as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. for many years, but most recently founded Citadel SA where he is involved in global financial transactions and high technology.  He is a serial entrepreneur with a particular focus in Russia, Sub Saharan Africa & the Middle East where he has led over fifty transactions (50-2500 MEUR) and managed 300 MUSD in the Sub-Saharan region averaging 50% ROI.
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Scope of Experience

Over the last twenty years, the principals at United Force have developed relationships with and programs for several federal & state agencies, universities, private-public incubators/accelerators and industry-large & small businesses.

Federal & State Agencies

70%

Accelerators/Incubators

50%

Universities

40%

Industry - Small

75%

Industry - Large

25%

Individuals

20%

Collaborations

United Force has a high degree of confidence in the quality of our collaborative deal flow; and, full access to the most promising companies participating in their respective programs, including the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) program, several public-private accelerators and universities.

Sample Deal Flow

Our current pipeline includes a range of technologies:

Augmented Virtuality

A hybrid of Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality coupled with AI and ML provides interactive 3D content that is animated, intelligent and “living” in real time.

Emissions & Covid-19 Sensor

IoT-based NOx measuring & monitoring for transportation pollution control in Smart City segments; also, providing a method for identifying and monitoring asymptomatic Covid-19 patients.

Battery Technology

Advancing battery long-term usage and storage capabilities for automotive, energy and UAV/Drone industries.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

Drone technology adapted for agricultural pollination/replacing decimated areas of bee populations.

Immersive Digital Replication

Provides rich 3D data about real cities, instantly accessible for training simulations, games, architecture, and beyond.

Contact Us

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Email

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