Brothers in Business: National Security Innovators With Global Impact

Greg and Eric Levesque are proud Aggies and co-founders of Strider Technologies, a leading strategic intelligence startup.

Strider was founded in 2019 on an idea that through leveraging publicly available data and cutting-edge AI technology, actionable insights could be provided to companies and governments to help secure technology and protect intellectual property from nation-state threat actors.

Five years later, the company has over 150 team members, operates in over 10 countries, works with some of the largest global companies—8 of the Fortune 10—and is now valued at over $400M. Accomplishing all of this in under five years puts Strider in the top five percent of all SaaS based start-ups.

Greg and Eric credit the foundation they received at Utah State University and the Huntsman School of Business as instrumental in the success that they’ve had throughout their careers, and critical in starting and expanding Strider.

“Utah State University gave me such a valuable set of fundamentals,” said Greg Levesque. “I learned how to think critically, how to dig into new topics, and how to apply what I was learning to the real world.”

“While at the Huntsman School, I traveled on a business study abroad and did an international internship in Belgium,” said Eric Levesque. “This provided me invaluable experience and a global perspective.”

After graduating from Utah State, Greg and Eric took different career paths. Greg had a successful career working in Washington D.C. on issues of national security for companies and governments, developing the subject-matter expertise that would later be the building blocks for Strider. Eric started his career on Wall Street working in finance. He later moved to the Middle East where he led the technology investment team at Oman Investment Authority, tasked with executing the investment strategy of Oman’s ‘Vision 2040’ economic plan.

Years later their career paths would converge back together to start Strider. Each with their unique experiences, perspectives, and skillsets.

“Greg and I would always talk to each other about interesting geopolitical issues,” said Eric Levesque. “While living abroad, I saw firsthand how state-sponsored actors were stealing IP and technology—issues Greg was working on in DC. We realized there was an opportunity to leverage public data to help organizations protect against IP theft and that is how Strider was started.”

Greg and Eric remain committed to Utah State University and the Utah business community. In 2021 they moved Strider’s HQ to Utah from Virginia. They work to provide career opportunities to future USU graduates, partnering closely with USU’s Center for Anticipatory Intelligence.

In April 2024, the Huntsman School presented Greg and Eric with the 2024 Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Professional Achievement Award in celebration of their entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to safeguarding intellectual property and innovation, and loyalty and service to Utah State University.

“As you know, our motto is ‘Dare Mighty Things,’ taken from the great comment from President Theodore Roosevelt,” said Douglas D. Anderson, dean of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, at the presentation of the award. “You guys are really exemplifying that for all of us. Your life story is really the story that Jon Huntsman had in mind when he endowed this school. I wish he were here today, bestowing this award on you. He would do it with his full heart and soul and with great pride for all that you are doing.”