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Traysar’s Taking Armada’s Mini Data Centers Underground
Over the course of America’s war with Iran, Iranian drones and missiles have hit US radars, aircraft, and the most critical of critical infrastructure in the age of AI: data centers. Russia, too, is increasingly targeting Ukraine’s data centers, “seeking to disrupt the flow of information,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiha wrote on X. Those […]
ICYMI: TEKEVER Raises $580M Series D at a $6.4B Valuation
The University of California’s investment fund and Baillie Gifford led the Portuguese drone company’s latest round.
Exclusive: GPS-Free Navigation Startup TERN and BAE Team Up
There’s been a whole lot of lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, but one of the biggest is that the modern battlefield is rife with jamming, spoofing, and electronic warfare. For vehicles and troops operating in that environment, knowing where to go when signals—especially GPS—get jammed gets pretty tricky. TERN thinks it has the […]
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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 […]