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Seasats secured over $24M in fully-funded orders for its Lightfish small-USV in August.
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Aslan Emerges With $20M and a Bunch of AI Agent Spies
The productivity gurus on the internet these days argue you should be using AI agents to book travel, manage calendars, and send emails. Aslan emerged from stealth yesterday with a different take on what these little bots can do. The DC-based startup raised $20.8M in pre-seed and seed funding, led by Khosla Ventures and XYZ […]
Exclusive: Rune and Havoc Team Up for Contested Logistics
Speaking of critical technology areas—it’s been a while since we talked about contested logistics. Luckily, our friends from the unsexy side of defense are back with some news to bring the conversation back to the top of your inbox. This morning, defense sustainment startup Rune and drone hotshot Havoc announced in an exclusive to Tectonic […]
AV Scores First-Ever Production Contract for Laser Weapons with the US Army
The $464.8M contract covers dozens of AV’s LOCUST X3 cUAS systems.
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A Q + A with Matt Cronin, Senior National Security Advisor at a16z
If there is one VC fund you know in the defense tech world, it’s probably Andreesen Horowitz—or a16z, as the cool kids say. The firm—which just raised a casual $15B, including $1.176B for its “national interest” (defense and deep tech) focused American Dynamism fund—has backed some of the biggest names in the game, including Anduril, […]
Q + A: A.J. Bertone, Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel
If you’ve been paying attention to the past year of Tectonic (!!), you’ll recognize a sneaky three-letter acronym that pops up on a lot of defense tech cap tables: IQT. For those lucky enough not to be in the know, that stands for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture fund backed by the US government and investing […]
A Q+A with Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper
Mark Esper has spent a whole heck of a lot of time in the defense ecosystem. After a decade in uniform in the US Army, he worked as a congressional staffer, a senior policy aide to Sens. Chuck Hagel and Bill Frist, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the early 2000s. Then, he […]
A Q+A with Alex Ferrara, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
If there is one fund that knows how to deploy big-time cash into tech companies, it’s Bessemer Venture Partners. The Silicon Valley fund has about $19B under management, and has invested in tech giants from LinkedIn (everyone’s fav) to Shopify. This year, the fund has turned to defense—specifically, European defense. They led Auterion’s $130M Series […]