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Powerus may have just rung the bell at the Nasdaq, but they’re not resting on their laurels.
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Drone Darling Powerus Goes Public
After coming out of pretty much nowhere earlier this year, Powerus has notched headline after headline. But yesterday, the Florida-based drone startup made its biggest power play yet— ringing the bell on the Nasdaq to start trading as a public company. The company first announced plans to go public back in March via a slightly […]
Exclusive: Anduril Snaps Up Popoto Modem
The two companies have worked together “for several years,” Anduril’s maritime strategy chief told Tectonic.
Exclusive: Swarmbotics Hardens Its Mini Autonomous Ground Vehicle
In case you didn’t catch Secretary Hegseth’s State of the Force address yesterday, the US military is going all in on drones of all shapes and sizes, from big aircraft and boats all the way down to teeny-tiny air and ground vehicles. And some people are taking teeny-tiny very seriously: Swarmbotics AI might make the […]
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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 […]