Startup Funding News

Bulwark Dynamics is building Caravel, an autonomous unmanned vessel that carries military supplies directly from ships to unimproved shorelines. It is designed to beach, unload standard cargo and retract without a crew or port infrastructure, including in electronically contested and GPS-denied conditions.

Ground A develops integrated counter-drone and air-defence systems for military users and operators of critical infrastructure. Its GA 1000 combines radar, sensors, computer vision, AI and a laser effector to detect, classify and track small drones, while leaving the decision to engage with a human operator.

Poseidon Aerospace is developing unmanned cargo aircraft for commercial freight and defense logistics. Its Egret short-takeoff-and-landing freighter and Heron seaplane are designed to move heavy loads between small, remote or water-based operating sites without an onboard pilot.

Airbility builds electric aircraft and counter-drone systems for defense and public-safety operators.

A mobile counter-drone system for defense and security operators, designed to detect and defeat small unmanned aircraft with a deployable, scalable platform.

Creoir develops embedded voice AI and mission-assistance software for defence and other mission-critical operators working in noisy, disconnected environments.

A sensing company developing lidar systems for three-dimensional wind measurement and aerial-object detection.

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.

A U.S. defense manufacturer building modular, automation-ready production systems to expand domestic capacity for military energetics.

Alteon is developing autonomous fixed-wing aircraft for organizations that need persistent aerial observation.