Is it just us, or is the hush-hush world of explosives and energetics suddenly, well, booming? (Sorry—it was too easy.) This morning, Texas-based energetics manufacturing company Critical Materials Group announced that it’s raised a $10.3M seed round led by Overmatch Ventures, with participation from Victory Six Advisors and Fulcrum Ventures. The company says it will […]
The drone dollars just keep on coming. On Monday, Easy Aerial, a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of defense-focused tethered drones, announced a $20M Series B—led by VC giant Insight Partners—to boost production and deliveries, as well as roll out new products. In the green: Now, if you’ve been keeping up with the defense-tech world, you’ll know that […]
Never really thought we’d be writing about mining and refining as we’re a defense publication and all, but here we are. On Friday, the Pentagon announced two mega investments in yet more domestic critical minerals supply: “To build a robust defense-industrial base, we must secure the foundational materials that enable it,” Assistant Secretary of War […]
Everywhere you look, M&A activity seems to be slowly picking up. Turns out, the trend has made its way to space, too. Earlier this week, space and defense comms unicorn CesiumAstro snapped up Virginia-based defense mission software firm 1Aardvark, with an eye on expanding its work in missile defense and tracking. The acquisition is CesiumAstro’s […]
For everyone out there who saw REGENT Craft’s Seagliders when they came out of stealth back in 2021 and thought, “Holy hell, that is cool,” well, good news—a mega pool of investors agrees with you. This morning, the startup—which builds seacraft that are a cross between a hydrofoil, a boat, and an aircraft—announced that it […]
The pre-seed round led by Khosla Ventures funds the development of Spike, Mara’s portable full-stack counter-drone system.
If 2024 was hot girl summer and 2025 was BRAT summer, then 2026 may well be the summer of the defense tech IPO. (Yes, these all exist in the same cultural reference ecosystem, what are you talking about?) This morning, hypersonics and SRM giant Ursa Major announced that it plans to go public via SPAC […]
Turns out that a whole lot of global instability is blowing the IPO window wide open for defense companies, and Lyntris is striking while the iron’s hot. The private-equity-backed, Virginia-based defense sensing software and hardware company went public on the NYSE yesterday, raising roughly $300M in a downsized IPO and joining a string of defense […]
Silent Ventures’ early-stage bets include Saronic, Castelion, Hadrian, AMCA, Armada, CHAOS, and Firestorm.
