Former DOGE duo launches AI company as a ‘DOGE for the private sector’
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ByNatalie Alms,
Senior Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW
June 2, 2026 05:08 PM ET
The pair behind the venture, Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, are named defendants in a lawsuit over the mass cancellation of humanities grants that the government recently lost.
Two former operatives of the controversial Department of Government Efficiency have launched a new artificial intelligence company called Special, backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Elon Musk ally Steve Davis and others formerly associated with the government-slashing unit.
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox are calling the venture “DOGE for the private sector.”
The pair went viral earlier this spring when the American Historical Association publicly posted hours of legal depositions online during a lawsuit over the mass termination of 1,400-plus grants at the National Endowment of the Humanities.
At NEH, Fox — named as a defendant in that lawsuit alongside Cavanaugh...
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