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Istari Digital

Software linking CAD and simulation data for certification

Raised to date

$22.6M

of $40M offered across 1 Form D filing

Still open
$17.4M
Investors
3
Last filed
Jul 24, 2026

About

Istari Digital builds a digital engineering platform for organizations that design, certify and operate complex physical systems. The software connects CAD, simulation, requirements and other engineering tools into a live, auditable digital thread so teams can extract, compare and validate system data in seconds rather than days. It targets air, sea, space, energy and transportation programs where certification and compliance evidence matter, and it is used to surface configuration drift and certification gaps before they become compliance failures. The company was founded in 2022 by Dr. Will Roper and Christopher Benson and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

It turns hardware certification into a software-speed workflow: engineering models and tools are represented in vendor-neutral, machine-readable form and linked into a traceable digital thread, so validation and audit evidence are produced continuously without customers giving up control of their authoritative source systems.

Funding

  • EquityFiled Jul 24, 2026Form D
    $22.6M/ $40M

Product

Istari Platform (Internet of Physics)

Digital engineering / model-based systems engineering platform

A digital engineering platform that connects a program's tools, teams and data environments into a continuous, auditable workflow, creating a live digital thread across every model, simulation and decision.

  • Live digital thread linking CAD, simulation and requirements data
  • Vendor-neutral, machine-readable representations of engineering information with traceability back to source systems
  • Automated validation, verification and certification workflows

Built for

Aerospace, defense and critical-infrastructure engineering programs, including primes and government customers such as the U.S. Air Force, plus air, sea, space, energy and transportation system builders

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