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DIU Taps Valinor's Docking Station for Containerized Drone Swarm Program
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (369+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Valinor launched last year with a focus on building the unsexy but important tech for modern conflict that no one else is, and it doesn't get much more picks-and-shovels-y…...
Expeditions Raises "197 M Fund II
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (669+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. If you still had any doubts that Europe was getting serious about defense (and defense tech), well, we're back with even more evidence to prove you wrong. Yesterday, Warsaw-based…...
Exclusive: Forterra's $114 M Army-Backed Push Into Ukraine
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (416+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Take a quick look around the defense startup scene, and you'll notice that pretty much every company bills its tech as "tested in Ukraine." Far fewer can say that…...
ICYMI: Ukraine Lays Out Export Plan for Defense Tech
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (335+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Well, the moment you've all been waiting for is finally here." Late last week, the Ukrainian government officially announced its first mechanism for exporting defense and military technology to…...
Defense Tech Funding is Breaking Records, with $35. 6 B Invested YTD
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (391+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. If you can believe it, today marks the halfway point of the year, and we'd be the first to tell you that it's been a pretty wild ride in…...
Exclusive: Vermeer Launches Recovery for Lost Drones
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (430+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. You know what sucks? When you've got a drone on mission with no (or limited) comms and it gets lost with no satellite data to fall back again. Can…...
Harpoon Ventures Raises $155 M Fourth Fund
1+ week, 1+ day ago (413+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Looks like no one's found the shut-off valve on the defense tech funding tap yet." Yesterday, San Diego-based early-stage VC firm Harpoon Ventures'an investor in startups ranging from Firestorm…...
Vantor Unveils World View 3 D
1+ week, 1+ day ago (437+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. If you thought those super-precise 2 D satellite images of'for example'bombed-out Iranian nuclear sites were cool, just wait "til you hear what Vantor has in store for you today. This…...
Drone Startup Elroy Air to Go Public Via $1 B SPAC Deal
1+ week, 3+ day ago (313+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. As we all know, there's a whole lot of private capital going into defense these days, but more and more companies are jumping on the growing appetite in the…...
Code Metal Moves Into Signals Processing With First Acquisition
1+ week, 6+ day ago (423+ words) Get daily insights on the most important news impacting defense innovation. Making your first acquisition is a big moment in any startup's life, and Code Metal is speedrunning it." Yesterday, Code Metal announced that they've snapped up Signal Processing Technologies…...