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 […]
Lock in, y’all. We’re getting nerdy today. This morning, Paris-based Arlequin AI announced that it’s raised a €28M ($32.55M) Series A to scale its AI architecture based on topological neural networks (TNNs)—non-LLM AI models designed to analyze large, interconnected, complex sets of data. Arlequin CEO and cofounder Hugo Micheron told Tectonic that the company will […]
The raise brings Mach’s total funding to over $1B.
Look out, world. The robots really are coming. Yesterday, ground autonomy hotshot Overland AI announced that it scored a $20M contract under the US Army’s Engineer Autonomous Breaching Capability (EABC) initiative. Bishop said the capability is already in development and that they’ll “be progressively developing subsets of the capability throughout the fall,” leading up to […]
We have a tendency around here to say that everyone loves a tiny plane. Well, as it turns out, there’s a lot of love for big ones, too. Bay Area-based Poseidon Aerospace raised $60M in a Series A to fund flight testing and production of its cargo drone, Egret, and accelerate development of its seafaring […]
a16z, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, 8VC, Aleph, and Lightspeed led the round.
Question: What do you get when you combine “maritime is all the rage” with “unsexy is the new sexy”? Answer: Bulwark Dynamics, an unmanned surface vessel startup laser-focused on contested logistics. That pitch has caught the eye of some early backers. This morning, the California-based maritime logistics startup announced $6.8M in seed funding to ramp […]
We told you. Lasers really are so hot right now. This morning, German directed-energy startup Ground A announced that it raised a €9.1M ($10M) pre-seed round, just eight-ish months after the company was founded. Ground A co-founder and CEO Tobias Brune told Tectonic that they’ll use the money to finalize their flagship laser cUAS system—the […]
The deal marks the first time a venture firm will test a shared savings model in defense.
Don’t you worry: prime-startup-cuffing season is still in full swing. Earlier this week, L3Harris inked a deal with Shield AI to integrate the autonomy-big-dawg’s Tracker Counter-UAS, which has AI-and-computer-vision-powered software for drone detection and tracking, across L3Harris’ VAMPIRE c-UAS platform. It’s the first time Shield AI has licensed the software to another company. Maybe getting […]
