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Automates carbon-fiber textile handling to produce composite parts for drones and other unmanned systems.
$16.5MSeed
ParticipantGR
Gokul Rajaram
Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionOct 24, 2026 · Defense tech · Jan 1, 2026
Gokul Rajaram is an individual investor identified by Aitan as a Coinbase and Pinterest board member. His own communications confirm other personal investments.
Recorded funding activity
Aitan develops military robotics and autonomy. Other recorded activity includes Hypercubic’s tools for modernizing COBOL applications and Gamgee’s personalized cancer vaccines for dogs. These investments are attributed to Rajaram personally.
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- Rounds participated in
- 3
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 0 1 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 3 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $107.5M 3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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3 in this selectionAitan
AITAN builds robotic command-and-control, autonomy and edge-AI systems for allied militaries. Its software and retrofit autonomy kits connect different drones and robotic platforms into coordinated forces for missions such as force protection, persistent surveillance and resupply in contested environments.
$41MFunding
ParticipantValarian
Building the sovereign infrastructure layer for high-consequence operations and AI-driven systems
$50MSeries A
Role not disclosed