In case you haven’t been paying attention, electronic warfare is kind of a big thing right now. Few are more aware of that than CX2, the El Segundo-based defense tech startup that says it’s “securing spectrum dominance for the United States and its allies.” This morning, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, the company unveiled […]
Well, we’re back with more Heven AeroTech news—and man, oh man, do the drone dollars keep on comin’. On Monday, the Israeli-American hydrogen-powered drone startup announced that it’s closed a whopping $100M Series B funding round led by their new friends at IonQ, valuing the company at $1B. The Chinese Zodiac calendar officially says it’s […]
Ukraine’s path to NATO is looking shakier by the day, but that hasn’t stopped the alliance from pushing to integrate the country’s battle-tested tech into Europe’s defense tech ecosystem. Late last week, as we were all enjoying our turkey, NATO and Ukraine unveiled a new competition called “UNITE–Brave NATO,” designed to accelerate the adoption of […]
Well, the Europeans aren’t showing any signs of slowing down on the drone front. On Friday, German ISR UAS company (and STARK forefather) Quantum Systems announced that it has raised a €180M ($209M) Series C extension at a €3B ($3.49B) valuation, led by Balderton Capital. This comes on the heels of a €160M ($186M) raise […]
The counter-drone club just got its newest—and maybe youngest—member. In an exclusive release to Tectonic, Thermopylae, a California-based interceptor drone startup launched in June by a 21-year-old Ukrainian engineer, announced it has raised $1.6M in pre-seed funding. New kids: Drawing its name from the famous Spartan battle against the Persians immortalized in the movie “300,” […]
Well, the whole defense spending kick is showing no signs of abating. Yesterday, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te announced in an op-ed in the Washington Post that his country plans to spend an extra $40B (about NT$1.25T) on defense to counter the growing threat from China. A massive portion of the supplementary defense package—which would be […]
We told you that collabs were becoming a bit of a thing around here. Yesterday, drone visual navigation startup Vermeer announced a partnership with Sentry Operations, a low-profile terminal guidance and precision effects company. The two firms say they will work together to develop a full-stack, localized, and autonomous navigation platform for strike drones in […]
The season of mashups continues, except this time it’s a cross-domain remix. Yesterday, Israeli-American hydrogen drone company Heven AeroTech announced that it’s teaming up with quantum giant IonQ ($IONQ) to develop “quantum-enabled drones for national security applications.” Basically, that means that IonQ’s quantum tech—including quantum computing, quantum networking, quantum sensing, and quantum security technologies—will be […]
For all of the time we spend talking about the shiny, go-boom side of defense, we haven’t spent too much time in this newsletter on one of the scarier sides of modern conflict: cyber warfare. Lucky for us, a startup called Twenty that came out of stealth last week is all over it. The company—founded […]
Mark Esper has spent a whole heck of a lot of time in the defense ecosystem. After a decade in uniform in the US Army, he worked as a congressional staffer, a senior policy aide to Sens. Chuck Hagel and Bill Frist, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the early 2000s. Then, he […]
