Exclusive: Mara Raises $7M Pre-Seed for Mass-Deployable Interceptors
The pre-seed round led by Khosla Ventures funds the development of Spike, Mara’s portable full-stack counter-drone system.
If you thought you’d heard the last of the new-age rare earths processing startups, think again. This morning, a new California-based startup called Maglut Heavy Industries emerged from stealth with $3.1M in pre-seed funding and a goal of developing a “chromatography-based platform to process and refine rare earth elements domestically” in the US. (We’ll get […]
The pre-seed round led by Khosla Ventures funds the development of Spike, Mara’s portable full-stack counter-drone system.
If you thought that SRMs and propellant were the only way to launch stuff into the air, well, think again. This morning, new-age launch company Auriga Space unveiled its new containerized Hermes electromagnetic launcher for drone interception and announced that they’ve already completed open-air testing of the system in the Mojave Desert. Basically, as we […]
The contract gives Army units access to Sandtable’s platform for “integrated mission planning and wargaming support.”
Happy Monday, y’all. We’re pretty amped up today. (Please forgive us; It was right there.) This morning, ruggedized power-for-the-edge company Chariot announced that it’s inked a $7.6M contract with DIU under the Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module (PRISM) program. “Power availability decides what equipment troops get to bring to the fight,” Chariot Founder and CEO […]
The Navy also tapped CoAspire for the CHAOS maritime strike program last month.
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, like, at all, it should come as zero surprise that energy infrastructure has become target numero uno in conflicts the whole world over. At least one oil and gas company operating in the Persian Gulf is taking matters into its own hands, inking a $22.3M contract with […]
Ukrainian-born, Austin-based swarming software company Swarmer has a 20 percent stake in the company.
The crazy kids over at Valinor have rolled out yet another new product, and this time, they’re quite literally saving lives. Yesterday, the new-age defense tech holding company unveiled a new product they are calling HarborPOD—a “UXV-agnostic payload built for unmanned CASEVAC and logistics resupply.” “With the proliferation of unmanned vehicles and the limited number […]
Well, sounds like at least one service is getting serious about the whole distributed and contested logistics side of things. Yesterday, heavy-lift drone company Elroy Air announced that it’s won a $46M multi-year contract with the US Army for “the development of an autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system for modular […]