David Tuttle

David Tuttle was a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army and later served with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).⁠[1]

He also worked in investment banking at Citi.⁠[2]

At Anduril he met Peter GoldsboroughPeter GoldsboroughPeter Goldsborough is a software engineer from Austria and the co-founder and chief technology officer of Rune Technologies, a military logistics software company. He previously worked on PyTorch’s C++ interfaces on Facebook’s AI research team and later at Anduril Industries.Open the full entry, a former MetaMetaMeta (Meta Platforms, Inc.) is a publicly listed American technology company, renamed from Facebook in 2021, that operates social communication, digital advertising, virtual reality, smart glasses and artificial intelligence businesses.Open the full entry software engineer.⁠[1]

In the summer of 2024 he and Goldsborough left Anduril.⁠[3]

He said, “July Fourth was actually our first official day as Rune employees.”⁠[2]

In February 2025 Rune emerged from stealth with $6.2 million in seed funding led by Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry, with Point72Point72Point72 is an alternative investment manager founded by Steven A. Cohen and headquartered in Stamford, United States, with equities, systematic, macro, private credit and venture capital businesses. It formally adopted the Point72 Asset Management name in 2014.Open the full entry Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital participating.⁠[4]

He described military logistics as “almost entirely a manual, human-centric process.”⁠[2]

In July 2025 Rune announced a $24 million Series A led by Human Capital, with Pax VC and Washington Harbour Partners participating. Tuttle said, “Our mission is to bring military logistics sophistication in line with the prowess of our fighting capabilities.”⁠[5]

He said, “Logistics is never the sexiest part of the military.”⁠[1]

He also said, “The U.S. military runs on Excel spreadsheets and whiteboards.”⁠[3]

That month he said there was significant demand across the services for a product to replace whiteboards and spreadsheets; Rune cited the Army and Marine Corps as users of its TyrOS software.⁠[6]

In August 2025 he was a guest on Payload’s Valley of Depth podcast in an episode titled “Logistics Wins Wars.”⁠[7]

In September 2025 Rune announced a partnership with the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army and a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel. Tuttle said the agreements showed demand for “a more modern approach to sustainment.”⁠[8]

On February 11, 2026, Rune announced it had joined Anduril’s team for the U.S. Army’s $99.6 million Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype, evaluated with the 4th Infantry Division. Tuttle said, “NGC2 is exactly the kind of mission-critical challenge Rune was built to tackle.”⁠[9]

In March 2026 the U.S. Army awarded Rune a $2 million Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract through the Army Applications Laboratory’s PORTAL program to deploy TyrOS with the 1st Cavalry Division over 18 months. Tuttle said the contract validated Rune’s approach of building “software that works at the tactical edge.”⁠[10]

In June 2026 Rune Technologies received a $99 million firm-fixed-price U.S. Army contract for its TyrOS logistics operations software platform, with estimated completion on June 15, 2031; the award was made to the company.⁠[11]

On October 29, 2026, Salesforce agreed to acquire Rune; the deal had not closed.⁠[12]