The University of California’s investment fund and Baillie Gifford led the Portuguese drone company’s latest round.
It’s really a big week around here for the nuts and bolts of defense tech, huh? But lock in. Because this one is super interesting. (At least we think so). This morning, quantum sensing startup Mesa Quantum revealed in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s raised $11.8M in funding led by Playground Global, bringing […]
All those shiny fun boats, drones, interceptors, and missiles you guys make are fun and all, but they’re not all that helpful if they don’t have reliable comms to, like, tell them where to go. Luckily, Sweden-based TERASi is here to help—and they’ve now got a whole new pile of cash to help them do […]
The capital comes on the heels of SYOS securing a £30M UK MoD drone order for Ukraine.
Looks a heck of a lot like the Ukrainians are coming, y’all. Late Friday, the US Army announced that it had awarded the US arm of Ukrainian drone company Skyeton a $10.64M fixed-price contract for its Raybird ISR drones (and all the fun associated hardware and services). The contract was awarded by US Army Contracting […]
Well, looks like the whole “doubling down on the unsexy side of defense” thing is paying off. Yesterday, defense logistics startup Rune Technologies announced that it’s scored a $4.1M contract from the US Army through the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL) to “expand Rune’s TyrOS deployment across the 1st Cavalry Division.” While the award may seem […]
The European autonomy giant’s maritime business is launching with two autonomous maritime vehicles: Seavex and Subvex.
Look out, world. The old guard and the new kids on the block are teaming up (again). This morning, as AFA kicks off in National Harbor, flight autonomy startup Merlin announced that it’s teamed up with aviation giant Textron Aviation to build a version of the Cessna SkyCourier souped-up with Merlin’s Pilot autonomy stack called, […]
Ukrainian ground robotics company Ratel has secured nearly $100M in contracts this year.
Dare we say the primes and the neoprimes might be…making friends? Yesterday, everyone’s favorite defense tech company announced that it’s been selected (along with Boeing) to “advance to the next phase of competition for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor.” Anduril says the interceptor is powered by an SRM built out of […]
