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January 13, 2025

Rodriguez featured in War on the Rocks on returns for defense tech limited partners

By Atlantic Council

On January 8, Stephen Rodriguez, senior advisor at Forward Defense, provided commentary in a War on the Rocks piece entitled “In Brief: How Long Until Defense Tech Limited Partners See Returns?” Rodriguez offered that, “until major primes or service providers start acquiring venture capital fund portfolios, especially at enterprise values of $250 million or more, it will be at least a decade before limited partners are made under the current model.”

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