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Exclusive: Tenna Raises $13.5M Seed
In case you haven’t noticed, electronic warfare is kind of a big deal right now. From the frontlines of Ukraine to Caracas (apparently), everyone is trying to figure out the best way to jam and spoof their adversaries while avoiding being jammed and spoofed themselves. Enter: Tenna Systems, an Israeli startup building a spectrum intelligence […]
Blue Water Autonomy Unveils 190-foot “Liberty Class” USV With Damen
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and defense companies are in the matchmaking spirit. This morning, Boston-based maritime autonomy startup Blue Water Autonomy unveiled its first autonomous surface vessel: A 190-foot big ol’ drone boat designed in partnership with Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen called the “Liberty Class.” We told you maritime autonomy is all the […]
Rune Joins Anduril’s NGC2 Prototype Team
You know what’s better than being on one prototyping team for the Army’s big modernization mega-project? Being on all of ‘em. Right on the heels of joining Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype team in December, logistics and sustainment software startup Rune announced today that it joined Anduril’s NGC2 team, making them […]
Exclusive: Anduril and Nominal Officially Team Up
Is it just us, or does it seem like everyone is teaming up right now? This morning, new-age defense tech testing company Nominal announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s officially partnering with Anduril to scale its testing infrastructure across Anduril’s production lines. Nominal CEO Cameron McCord told Tectonic that his company will […]
A Q + A with Matt Cronin, Senior National Security Advisor at a16z
If there is one VC fund you know in the defense tech world, it’s probably Andreesen Horowitz—or a16z, as the cool kids say. The firm—which just raised a casual $15B, including $1.176B for its “national interest” (defense and deep tech) focused American Dynamism fund—has backed some of the biggest names in the game, including Anduril, […]
Q + A: A.J. Bertone, Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel
If you’ve been paying attention to the past year of Tectonic (!!), you’ll recognize a sneaky three-letter acronym that pops up on a lot of defense tech cap tables: IQT. For those lucky enough not to be in the know, that stands for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture fund backed by the US government and investing […]
A Q+A with Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper
Mark Esper has spent a whole heck of a lot of time in the defense ecosystem. After a decade in uniform in the US Army, he worked as a congressional staffer, a senior policy aide to Sens. Chuck Hagel and Bill Frist, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the early 2000s. Then, he […]
A Q+A with Alex Ferrara, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
If there is one fund that knows how to deploy big-time cash into tech companies, it’s Bessemer Venture Partners. The Silicon Valley fund has about $19B under management, and has invested in tech giants from LinkedIn (everyone’s fav) to Shopify. This year, the fund has turned to defense—specifically, European defense. They led Auterion’s $130M Series […]
