Terra Industries Extends Funding to $34M to Protect Africa’s Critical Infrastructure With Autonomous Systems

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 investors such as Jordan Nel and Jared Leto.

The round closed in under two weeks, reflecting strong investor conviction in Terra Industries’ role in protecting critical infrastructure and addressing insecurity and terrorism across Africa.

Founded in 2024 by 22-year-old Nathan Nwachuku and 24-year-old Maxwell Maduka, Terra Industries develops autonomous defense systems that enable governments and infrastructure operators to monitor, secure, and respond to threats across land, air, and maritime domains. The technology is already deployed to safeguard power plants, mines, and other nationally critical assets across several African countries.

Security as the Missing Layer of African Industrialization:

Africa is entering a pivotal phase of industrialization, holding roughly 30% of the world’s critical mineral reserves and investing nearly $100 billion annually in infrastructure. Much of this growth, however, is unfolding in remote and at times unstable regions where security frameworks have not kept pace.

Across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel, infrastructure sabotage, illegal mining, organized crime, and terrorism continue to disrupt industries and livelihoods. The resulting gap between investment and security weakens supply chains, undermines investor confidence, and strains government capacity, an imbalance that is widening as industrial activity accelerates across the continent.

Nathan Nwachuku, co-founder and CEO of Terra Industries, stated that Africa’s rapid expansion of mines, refineries, and power plants risks being undermined unless insecurity and terrorism, the continent’s key vulnerability, are effectively addressed.

To manage these risks, many infrastructure operators and governments continue relying on imported security systems. These solutions are often costly to maintain, poorly adapted to local conditions, and introduce exposure to geopolitical dependencies, supply disruptions, and data control concerns.

Pax Africana: Building Sovereign Intelligence and Security

Terra Industries frames Pax Africana as security built on indigenous capability and sovereign intelligence, shifting from reactive troop deployments to predictive monitoring powered by autonomous systems and locally controlled data.

The company is developing a vertically integrated platform of drones, sentry towers, and unmanned ground vehicles connected through ArtemisOS for real-time detection and coordinated response. It already secures about $11 billion in infrastructure assets and manufactures locally in Abuja.

An additional $22 million will expand production, accelerate deployments across Africa, and grow teams in Africa, London, and San Francisco.

Brandon Reeves, Partner at Lux Capital, said the vision centers on locally built defense technology as a foundation for economic growth, with Terra Industries aiming to establish an African defense prime that secures sovereignty and delivers counterterrorism capabilities across the continent.