Forterra is Powering the Future of the Battlefield

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, Hanwha Asset Management, 9Yards Capital, RTX Ventures, and NightDragon alongside existing investors XYZ Venture Capital, Hedosophia and Enlightenment Capital. Doubling down on their investment in Forterra, Crescent Cove provided both equity and debt, showing continued support since Forterra’s Series A in 2021.

Ground operations determine the outcome of wars, yet the U.S. faces manpower and industrial constraints while adversaries invest in autonomous mass. Maintaining advantage requires resilient logistics and technologies that multiply combat power.

This calls for a new class of cognitive mission systems, autonomous, interoperable, intelligent platforms that operate continuously, integrate across fleets, and extend force reach while reducing burden on personnel. This is the future Forterra is delivering today.

Autonomy has become an operational necessity, and the new funding accelerates Forterra’s role as the connective layer of modern defense operations. Its autonomous stack and interoperable mission modules already enable fleets to move, sense, and act without limitation. The financing will expand command, control, and communications capabilities, increase production of Forterra’s edge-compute and autonomy platform, open new offices, and support rapid deployment of combat systems.

Recent achievements include the DoD’s first ground-autonomy Program of Record, ROGUE Fires, the only mobile autonomous missile launcher in the U.S., a $114M Army contract for autonomous breaching systems, progress on the Army’s UxS program, advancement to Phase II of the GEARS logistics-automation effort, and collaborations with partners such as Raytheon, BAE, Volvo Defense, and CHAOS Industries.

These efforts reflect a broader shift as defense customers adopt intelligent, modular, interoperable systems across domains. As global fielding scales, the focus remains on delivering low-cost autonomous systems that strengthen Western deterrence.