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Frankenburg Technologies , redefining air-defence technology solutions for national defence and critical infrastructure, led by Kusti Salm, Andreas Bappert, Juhan Tenisson, and the team, has raised  €30 million in Series A funding, led by  Plural  and followed by  SmartCap . Founded in 2024 by serial deep-tech entrepreneurs Taavi Madiberk and Marko Virkebau, Frankenburg Technologies was established to address a structural shift in Europe’s security landscape: modern aerial th

Terra Industries , protecting Africa's critical infrastructure with autonomy, led by Nathan Nwachuku, Maxwell Maduka, Alexander Moore(Board Director), and AVM Ayoola Jolasinmi, rtd OFR(Advisor), has raised  an additional $22 million in funding, led by Lux Capital with participation from existing investors, including 8VC , Nova Global, Silent Ventures , Belief Capital , Tofino Capital , and Resilience17 Capital , founded by Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola, as well as angel i

Voyager Technologies , an innovative national security and space solutions company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions, led by Dylan Taylor and others, and Max Space , envisioning a future where space is not just a frontier but a thriving base for humanity, led by Saleem Miyan, and others, have announced  a strategic partnership to advance expandable space exploration technology, serving as the cornerstone of future lunar and deep-

Galadyne , a modern defense company redefining missile architecture with scalable liquid propulsion and full-stack integration, strengthening U.S. and allied defense by eliminating reliance on fragile energetic supply chains, led by Chandler Luzsicza, has raised  a $4.8 million pre-seed round from Andreessen Horowitz  and Pax Ventures  to fund early development, testing, and prototype deliveries. For decades, missile systems have been technologically advanced but costly, slow

Diffraqtion , an MIT and University of Maryland spinout building the next generation of visual AI hardware and software to make satellites and machines see further and think faster, led by Johannes Galatsanos, Christine Yi-Ting Wang, Saikat Guha, Mark Michael, and others, has raised its pre-seed funding round, led by QDNL Participations , with participation from milemark•capital , Aether VC , ADIN, Offline Ventures , and a non-dilutive DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase 2 contract su

Harmattan AI , building the future of autonomous warfare, with speed and intelligence, led by Mouad M'Ghari, Martin de Gourcuff , Jean-Christophe Charlaix , Edouard Rosset , Jean-Patrice Coste , and others, has secured  $200 million in a Series B funding round led by Dassault Aviation. The two companies have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the integration of controlled autonomy and AI technologies into combat aviation systems. Harmattan AI, awarded multiple Pr

Quantum Systems , developer of Aerial Intelligence Systems, led by Florian Seibel, Sven Kruck, Matthias Lehna, and Dave Sharpin, and Frontline Robotics , a Ukrainian defence technology company that develops and manufactures robotic systems for Ukraine's security and defence forces, led by Pavlo Kosolapkin and Yevhenii Tretiak, have launched  “Quantum Frontline Industries”(QFI), a German-Ukrainian joint venture that will establish Europe’s first fully automated, industrial-sca

Ursa Major , delivering mission-ready propulsion across missile defense, hypersonics, in-space mobility, and launch, led by Dan Jablonsky, Bill Nash, Brad Appel, and others, has closed  $100 million in its Series E funding round and received an additional $50 million in debt funding commitments. Investors include both new and long-term supporters of Ursa Major’s mission, including Eclipse , which led the round, and were joined by Woodline Partners , Principia Growth , XN, and

Forterra , defining the next domain of operations creating an ecosystem where intelligent systems coordinate and prevail across the battlefield, led by Josh Araujo, Joseph Putney, Scott Sanders, Colin Chisholm, Taylor Smith Baisey, and Alberto Lacaze, has announced  a $238 million Series C comprised of both equity and debt led by Moore Strategic Ventures with participation from new investors Salesforce Ventures , Franklin Templeton , Balyasny Asset Management , 645 Ventures ,

Inversion Space , building autonomous, highly-maneuverable re-entry vehicles to deliver cargo and effects from space, led by Justin Fiaschetti, Austin Briggs, Jackson Kemper, III, Collin Corey, and others, has unveiled  the design of Arc, a spacecraft intended to deliver critical cargo from space to any point on Earth within an hour, landing on water, snow or soil with a precision of around 50 feet. The concept targets the defense sector, aligning with the U.S. military’s lon

Gravitics , developer of orbital carrier, led by Colin Doughan, Sundeep Kumar, Scott Macklin, Michael DeRosa, Gary Hudson, and others, has unveiled  Diamondback, a smaller orbital carrier designed to fulfill missions from protecting US national security satellites to deploying space-based missile interceptors, on Tuesday at Payload’s Space Investor Summit. Gravitics CEO Colin Doughan likened the company’s orbital carrier model to a network of police stations: strategically po

Delian Alliance Industries , a Greek Defence Tech Startup building autonomous systems for defence, led by Dimitrios Kottas(Founder and...

Led by Dr. Gundbert Scherf(Co-Founder & Co-CEO), Niklas Kohler(Co-Founder & President), Torsten Reil(Co-Founder & Co-CEO), Sam...