The multi-year deal is worth up to a whopping $900M.
So long, unsexy side of defense. The whole supply chain thing is getting sexier and sexier by the day. This morning, a new startup called Atlas Motion emerged from stealth with $11.5M in funding led by Greycroft to build motors and actuators for drones, robotics, and other defense platforms. If you’re sitting there like, okay, […]
Pew, pew baby. It’s time to talk about lasers again. This morning, directed energy weapons startup Aurelius announced that it’s raised a $40M Series A to scale up production of its flagship Archimedes laser c-UAS platform. “We will use this to…expand our capacity to produce systems, build out our team, [and] build out manufacturing and […]
Lock in, kids. We’re playing with rocks today. Yesterday, AI-powered mining and refining company Mariana Minerals announced that it’s raised a $310M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to about $400M. Mariana CEO and co-founder Turner Caldwell told Tectonic that they’ll use the funding to scale up their current mining operations—Copper One […]
The loan is designed to “establish high-volume domestic manufacturing capacity for critical drone components.”
Sounds like someone is learning some lessons in the Strait of Hormuz. In case you missed it, on Wednesday DIU (which, apparently, has been renamed the War Department Innovation Unit) released a solicitation looking for USVs “fully integrated with two or more mature, market-ready aerial drones to detect, identify, track, and defeat hostile threats.” The […]
Well, if you have a solution that you think can take down drones better than anyone else’s, now’s your moment. Yesterday, Brave1—Ukraine’s defense innovation cluster—announced that applications are officially open for the UNITE – Brave NATO joint innovation program. The program—first announced in late 2025—is designed to “bring together Ukrainian defense companies and companies from […]
Told you the Europeans were getting (kind of) serious about the whole drones and autonomy thing. Yesterday, the European Defense Agency (the EU’s joint defense capability organization) announced that it’s down-selected five companies for stage two of its Sentinel Strike Challenge for loitering munitions. Each company will get €30,000 to move on to stage two, […]
The London- and Berlin-based startup secured $30M across two rounds to train autonomous systems.
Well, who says an AI-for-defense platform can’t have a major glow-up? This morning, defense and intelligence AI startup Danti announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they’ve launched the new generation of their platform and secured a fresh contract with the US Air Force. The revamp comes after Danti was used during US Special […]
