Cleared Hot with Andy Stumpf · January 2025
Episode 368 - Nic McKinley
Nic McKinley returns to Cleared Hot for his third appearance with Andy Stumpf - the evolution of DeliverFund's intelligence platform, the current state of human trafficking prosecution, and the technology gap between predators and the people hunting them.
Key Takeaways
- DeliverFund has evolved from intelligence support to a technology platform that scales across law enforcement agencies.
- The gap is not between predators and investigators - it is between the volume of cases and the prosecution system's capacity to handle them.
- The most dangerous trafficking networks are high-volume, low-profile commercial operations that generate steady profit with minimal exposure.
- What it looks like when an intelligence operation transitions from reactive case support to proactive network disruption.
From the episode
Nic McKinley is an entrepreneur, former military special operator, and ex-CIA operative who founded and led two multimillion-dollar tech companies.
With 30 combat deployments under his belt in both Special Operations and the CIA, Nic experienced the power of technology during the Global War on Terror and set out to use his skills and training ...
In 2014, Nic founded DeliverFund, the only donor-funded solution to human trafficking that delivers proprietary data and technology to law enforcement, allowing them to take down human traffickers ...
Despite being dubbed “The Real Jack Ryan“ by VICE Media, Nic's most important role is as a husband and father leading his family in a life of service and adventure in Montana.