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Havoc Heads to Taiwan
Have any last-minute beach trips planned this summer? Havoc does, and it’s a long way from its home in Rhode Island. At a signing ceremony at the autonomy startup’s Providence headquarters yesterday, USV-turned-all-domain-autonomy company Havoc inked a deal with Taiwanese shipbuilding giant CSBC to integrate Havoc’s collaborative autonomy software with CSBC’s unmanned surface vessels in […]
Anduril and Boeing Advance Interceptor for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC)
Dare we say the primes and the neoprimes might be…making friends? Yesterday, everyone’s favorite defense tech company announced that it’s been selected (along with Boeing) to “advance to the next phase of competition for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor.” Anduril says the interceptor is powered by an SRM built out of […]
Arlequin Raises €28M for Topological Neural Networks
Lock in, y’all. We’re getting nerdy today. This morning, Paris-based Arlequin AI announced that it’s raised a €28M ($32.55M) Series A to scale its AI architecture based on topological neural networks (TNNs)—non-LLM AI models designed to analyze large, interconnected, complex sets of data. Arlequin CEO and cofounder Hugo Micheron told Tectonic that the company will […]
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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 […]