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Hypersonica Raises €100M Series B for European Deep Strike
Well, gosh darn. So much for Europe being conservative when it comes to funding defense. This morning, British-slash-German
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Salesforce to Buy Rune in its “Most Significant” Defense Acquisition to Date
The two-year-old military logistics startup had raised just $30M in VC funding before becoming Salesforce’s biggest defense acquisition.
Foundry Robotics Raises $100M Series A
Founded last year, Foundry is assembling everything from robotic dogs to unmanned underwater vehicles and quadcopters.
ICYMI: Watchtower Labs Exits the Shadows with a $35M Seed
In case you missed it, there is a new player on the unsexy side of defense. Last week, a new AI-powered planning and logistics company called Watchtower Labs emerged from stealth with $35M in seed funding led by Shield Capital and Conviction, with participation from Founders Fund. The idea is to build “AI-native applications that […]
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A Q+A with Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Fmr. Defense Minister
An exclusive interview with former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
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 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 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, […]