Shield AI, a Washington, DC-based firm constructing autonomy software program merchandise and protection plane, raised $240M in Collection F-1 Funding, at $5.3 Billion valuation.
Backers included strategic buyers L3Harris (NYSE: LHX) and Hanwha Aerospace (KRX: 012450), and current buyers together with Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Modern Know-how, and Washington Harbour.
The corporate intends to make use of the funds to broaden the deployment of Hivemind Enterprise to OEMs, governments, and firms to empower the bigger robotics and drone industrial base to construct autonomy merchandise.
Based in 2015, Defend AI is a deep-technology firm with the mission of defending service members and civilians with clever, autonomous programs. Its merchandise embrace Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Hivemind Pilot, Hivemind Commander, and Hivemind Forge, in addition to V-BAT and Sentient Imaginative and prescient Methods (wide-area movement imaging software program).
Hivemind Enterprise is an autonomy software program suite for builders and organizations constructing, testing, evaluating, and deploying autonomy for clever machines. The Hivemind Enterprise product suite consists of an built-in autonomy manufacturing facility, industrial-grade manufacturing prepared middleware, a wealthy autonomy catalogue, and mission management, empowering builders to construct and personal their mission-ready autonomy options with unprecedented velocity and adaptability.
With places of work in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), the corporate serves U.S. and allied operations worldwide.
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07/03/2025
