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Exclusive: Helicon Emerges from Stealth, Raises $16.5M
Forget about Taco Tuesday. It’s fiber-reinforced composite structures Tuesday. (Is that a thing? We’re making it a thing.) This morning, LA-based composites startup Helicon announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s, well, officially emerged from stealth and raised a cool $16.5M. CEO and co-founder Alex Niehaus told Tectonic that they’ll use the funding […]
ICYMI: ICON Raises $200M Series D
Now, we may spend a lot of time around here talking about robots, and humans, and the interactions between humans and robots, but we don’t spend a heck of a lot of time talking about, well, the buildings and structures where all of these humans and robots live and work. Well, today we will. In […]
Exclusive: PE Firm Arlington Capital Partners Takes British Photonics Company Private in £346M Deal
DC-based defense PE firm Arlington Capital Partners closed its £345.6M acquisition of British photonics company Gooch & Housego
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A Q&A with Alex Fink, US CEO of Swarmer
In case you missed it, the infamous Erik Prince and Swarmer’s US CEO Alex Fink are betting on “air defense as a service”—and now they’re putting numbers behind their pitch. This week—just a month after launch—Vectus Air Defense Systems (not to be confused with Prince’s Vectus Global private military and security company) announced plans to […]
A Q+A with Vectus’ Erik Prince
Tectonic sat down with Erik Prince to chat about his new air defense startup, Vectus.
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 […]