Hardware device
Rownd is building the Loop: a mission system that connects field evidence, operators, autonomous vehicles, software, models, designs, hardware, and fielding through one reviewed and validated improvement cycle.
Founders · Product · How it works
- Founded
- 2022
- Team
- 7 people
Hardware device
Greypoint maps the electromagnetic spectrum so you can see every signal, track every threat, and act first. Built in Canada for those who protect.
Founders · Product · How it works
- Founded
- 2026
- Team
- 4 people
Hardware device
Albacore builds mass-produced long-range drone submarines for undersea dominance at scale.
What is different · Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- 18 people
Hardware device
Mass-produced, AI-guided precision munitions, combat-proven in Ukraine. Five aircraft from anti-tank rounds to the XQ 770 combat jet, built in the US and Poland - or co-produced on allied territory.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2026
- Team
- 30 people
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Velontra is building a hypersonic space plane that can takeoff from anywhere in any weather. This horizontal takeoff increases launch reliability and enables customers to directly access any orbit. Our air-breathing propulsion system…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2021
- Team
- 5 people
Industry software
Surtr builds ParallaxOS, the open operating system for counter-UAS. It takes sensor data from any radar, RF detector, camera, or acoustic array and fuses it into a single unified picture with AI-driven threat classification and…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2026
- Team
- 2 people
Hardware device
Building the future of Autonomous Surface Vessels for national security, harbor patrol and commerical inspection applications | Leveraging state-of-the-art sensor fusion technology to achieve unprecendented autonomy
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2024
- Team
- 9 people
Hardware device
Vernius builds low-cost active radar seekers for counter-UAS, letting any interceptor detect Shahed-class targets beyond visual range in all weather.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2026
- Team
- 3 people
Infrastructure
We're building the communication network for those audacious enough to explore the solar system.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- 7 people
Hardware device
Castelion designs, tests, and manufactures next-generation military systems rapidly and at massive scale to deter future wars.
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Hardware device
Earendil Robotics builds cUAS solutions for the modern warfighter, enabling effective air defence at the small-unit level. We deliver spotting, engaging, and destroying capabilities through advanced sensors, autonomous interceptors, and…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- 7 people
Hardware device
AI-powered counter-drone (C-sUAS) defense systems. Edda — fast, low-cost, autonomous-capable point defense for the FPV drone era. Built in Austin, TX.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2024
- Team
- 19 people
Hardware device
Turion Space is building spacecraft to move things around in space and image space objects when they’re not, and focused on developing the dual-use technology required to ensure a sustainable future in space. They aim to build a strong…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2020
- Team
- 15 people
Hardware device
Ornadyne builds flapping-wing UAVs that look and fly like real birds. Near-silent, AI-powered, man-portable drones for covert reconnaissance. Backed by Y Combinator.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2026
- Team
- 4 people
Hardware device
Orbital Operations is developing a high thrust, reusable space vehicle for satellite defense. We protect critical satellites, like GPS and Military communication satellites, from adversarial threats, like China and Russia.
Our…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2024
- Team
- 10 people
Hardware device
Hop Aero delivers critical cargo to the most austere places on Earth in minutes — point-to-point, at hypersonic speed.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2024
- Team
- 6 people
Hardware device
Exosonic is an early-stage aerospace start-up based in Los Angeles, CA developing supersonic adversary air UAVs to support the adversary air training mission for both commercial and government customers. The goal is to mature these…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2019
- Team
- 14 people
Hardware device
Icarus is building the modern-day U-2 spy plane. Our autonomous solar aircraft fly at 60,000 feet for weeks at a time, eventually months and years, above weather and below satellites. They deliver persistent intelligence and…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2023
- Team
- 50 people
Hardware device
Arlo Industries builds a passive, decentralised aerial sensing mesh that delivers real-time 3D tracking of drones and missiles without radar. Nothing to jam, nothing to detect. Backed by Y Combinator.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- 3 people
Hardware device
Perseus Defense is building a mass-manufactured Counter UAS solution for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Current solutions are one-to-one, too dangerous for use on U.S. soil, and orders of magntiude more…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- 3 people
Hardware device
AICE is a European defense company that builds modular autonomous underwater vehicles for fleet defense.
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2026
- Team
- 2 people
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Reusable, balloon-launched aerial vehicles and instruments for weather, atmospheric and near-space research at 100,000+ ft.
Product · How it works
- Founded
- 2021
- Team
- 10 people
Hardware device
We engineer inexpensive, autonomous strike drones designed to operate in the most contested combat environments on Earth!
By combining true hardware modularity with an agentic control system that lowers cognitive load on operators…
Founders · Product
- Founded
- 2025
- Team
- 7 people