Defense technologist.
Founder. Investor.
Veteran.
Building institutions at the intersection of compliance software, allied defense capital, and mixed-reality sensing.
Dana Mincey-Breaux is a U.S. Army Signal Corps Captain veteran, defense-tech entrepreneur, and venture investor based in Washington, DC. She is the Founder & CEO of Aegis Compliance OS, Inc., a defense-tech startup building the first GCC High-native compliance automation platform for the defense industrial base, and Managing Partner of Fenix Capital, a pre-seed/seed venture fund focused on allied defense supply chain and compliance software.
Her military career spanned active duty from 2008 to 2014, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (2012–2013). She holds an active TS/SCI clearance, last used at the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) at the Pentagon in October 2025, and a 100% VA disability rating.
Beyond Aegis and Fenix Capital, Dana leads TerraVeritas Capital Partners LLC (SDVOSB/WOSB, CAGE 193K5), a defense industrial base advisory and contracting entity, and holds a Defense Patent Holiday Commercial Evaluation License from the Naval Postgraduate School covering two issued Navy patents in mixed-reality quality assurance and equipment recreation — the foundation of Project TRIDENT.
Dana is a first-year law student at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, where she focuses on community development law. She holds a B.S. in Political Science from Florida A&M University (FAMU), an M.A. in International Relations from Freie Universität Berlin, a Wharton Private Equity Certificate, and holds PMP, CSM, and Microsoft PL-900/PL-200 certifications.
She publishes Pan-Atlantic Dispatch, a newsletter at the intersection of transatlantic security, defense investment, and allied industrial policy, and convenes the Allied Innovation Summit — an invitation-only gathering of allied defense founders, investors, and officials in Washington, DC.
