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Defense Tech Funding is Breaking Records, with $35. 6 B Invested YTD
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (391+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. If you can believe it, today marks the halfway point of the year, and we'd be the first to tell you that it's been a pretty wild ride in…...
Exclusive: Vermeer Launches Recovery for Lost Drones
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (430+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. You know what sucks? When you've got a drone on mission with no (or limited) comms and it gets lost with no satellite data to fall back again. Can…...
Harpoon Ventures Raises $155 M Fourth Fund
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (413+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Looks like no one's found the shut-off valve on the defense tech funding tap yet." Yesterday, San Diego-based early-stage VC firm Harpoon Ventures'an investor in startups ranging from Firestorm…...
Exclusive: Auriga Launches Hypersonic Weather Testing Chamber
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (363+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. If you read Tectonic, you'll probably be aware of two things: Hypersonic weapons are in high demand these days, and the government wants to move fast to field them....
Vantor Unveils World View 3 D
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (437+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. If you thought those super-precise 2 D satellite images of'for example'bombed-out Iranian nuclear sites were cool, just wait "til you hear what Vantor has in store for you today. This…...
Dominion Dynamics Raises $139 M CAD ($100 M USD) Series A
2+ day, 58+ min ago (559+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. The Canadians are really making some serious money moves in defense, eh? This morning, Canadian defense tech darling Dominion Dynamics announced that it's raised a CA$139 M (US$100 M) Series…...
Overland AI Snags $20 M Marine Corps Contract for AGVs
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (404+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Looks like the clankers (robots, for the non-internet people among us) are here to stay." Yesterday, ground autonomy startup Overland AI announced that they've been awarded a $20 M production…...
MAKO (n'e Micro Tau) Raises $20 M for Shark Skin Film
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (314+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Is it just us, or is the stuff we're covering (looking at you, haptic controllers) getting more and more niche? This morning, Australian aerospace tech company MAKO (formerly known…...
Drone Startup Elroy Air to Go Public Via $1 B SPAC Deal
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (313+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. As we all know, there's a whole lot of private capital going into defense these days, but more and more companies are jumping on the growing appetite in the…...
Code Metal Moves Into Signals Processing With First Acquisition
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (423+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Making your first acquisition is a big moment in any startup's life, and Code Metal is speedrunning it." Yesterday, Code Metal announced that they've snapped up Signal Processing Technologies…...