59 Defense & GovTech companies raised a combined $1.40B across 14 pre-seed, 23 seed, 21 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- Aistis Šimaitis is co-founder and CEO of Onodrim Industries, which acquires controlling stakes in European defence supply-chain businesses.
- Starcloud raised $170M in Series A funding at a $1.1B valuation, instantly reaching unicorn status as a space infrastructure startup at a moment when orbital compute demand is accelerating.
- Eliot Pence is a builder of frontier defense and industrial companies.
The Defense & GovTech sector saw 59 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $1.40B. The median round sits at $11M, with 63% of activity at pre-seed and seed stage and the remaining 37% at Series A and later. Pre-Seed rounds dominate, accounting for 24% of all Defense & GovTech activity in 2026.
Geographically, Defense & GovTech funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 25 of the 59 raises (42%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest Defense & GovTech round in 2026 is Onodrim Industries's $300M series a, led by Aistis Šimaitis. Defense & GovTech activity accelerated through Nov, when raises jumped to 11 announcements.
Every entry on this page is sourced from public funding announcements, then enriched with founder LinkedIn handles, company websites, and growth signals. If you're a founder, operator, salesperson, or recruiter tracking Defense & GovTech, this page updates every weekday with new rounds.
| # | Company | Stage | Raised | Founder / CEO | Region | Signals | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistt mistt | Pre-Seed | £5M | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed Deep Tech B2B | li n/asrc | |
| 2 | Rozvelt rozvelt | Seed | CA$3.1M | Nicholas Monette Co-founder & CEO | Canada | Seed Hardware B2C | li n/asrc |
| 3 | Primordial Labs primordial-labs.com | Series A | $18M | Lee Ritholtz Co-founder | United States | Series A Hiring AI-Native | |
| 4 | Lumbra lumbra.ai | Series A | $25M | Aaron Brown CEO | United States | Series A Hiring Enterprise | |
| 5 | Valkyrie Dynamics valkyriedynamics.ai | Pre-Seed | €1M | Marcin Kovalevskij Founder and CEO | Lithuania | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 6 | Onodrim Industries onodrim.com | Series A | $300M | Aistis Šimaitis CEO & Co-founder | Netherlands | Series A B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 7 | Crowd Threat crowdthreat.com | Stage undisclosed | £1M | Michael McCabe CEO & Founder | United Kingdom | Second-Time Founder Product Launch Hiring | |
| 8 | Marble Imaging marble-imaging.de | Seed | €6M | Robert Hook CEO & Co-founder | Germany | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 9 | Bloomsco bloomsco | Pre-Seed | C$1M | Hugh McGuire Co-founder & CEO | Canada | Pre-Seed Hiring B2B | li n/asrc |
| 10 | Corridian corridian.com | Seed | $38M | Mike Guay Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Hiring | |
| 11 | North Vector Dynamics north vector dynamics | Series A | $20M | Paul Ziadé CEO | Canada | Series A Hiring Deep Tech | li n/asrc |
| 12 | Forward Deployed forwarddeployed.com.au | Pre-Seed | A$1M | Richard Hebden CEO & Co-founder | Australia | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 13 | DOD Solution dodsolution.com | Pre-Seed | $2.1M | Roman Hapachylo CEO | Estonia | Pre-Seed Deep Tech AI-Native | |
| 14 | Pilgrim pilgrimlabs.com | Seed | $25M | Jake Adler Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Regulated Industry | |
| 15 | Terasi terasi.io | Seed | $12.6M | James Campion CEO & Co-founder | Sweden | Seed B2B Hardware | |
| 16 | TigerByte Cyber tigerbytecyber.us | Seed | $3M | Sage Secilmis CEO | United States | Seed B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 17 | Freya Industries freyaindustries.com | Pre-Seed | $576K | Jonas Astrom Founder & CEO | Sweden | Pre-Seed Hardware Regulated Industry | |
| 18 | Arlequin AI arlq.ai | Series A | $30.2M | Hugo Micheron CEO and Co-founder | France | Series A Enterprise New Market | |
| 19 | Ground A grounda.de | Pre-Seed | $9.8M | Tobias Brune CEO & Co-founder | Germany | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 20 | Creoir creoir.com | Seed | $2.2M | Antti Lilja CEO & Co-founder | Finland | Seed B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 21 | Aslan Protects aslanprotects.com | Seed | $20.8M | Chase Reid CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Seed Regulated Industry AI-Native | |
| 22 | INLEAP Photonics inleap-photonics.com | Seed | $21.6M | Marius Lammers CEO & Co-Founder | Germany | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 23 | Incera Solution incerasol.com | Series A | $10.3M | Kwon Young Kwan CEO | South Korea | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 24 | Airbility airbility.co.kr | Series A | $4.7M | Jinmo Lee CEO | South Korea | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 25 | Cloverleaf AI cloverleaf.ai | Series A | $8M | Adam Zucker CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 26 | Kepler Aerospace kepleraero.com | Seed | $8M | Navneet Singh CEO & Co-founder | India | Seed Hiring Deep Tech | |
| 27 | Blue Voice bluevoice.io | Seed | $6M | David Roosevelt Lawrence Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 28 | Mara mara.inc | Pre-Seed | $7M | Daniel Kofman Co-founder & CEO | United States | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 29 | FSH Technologies fsh.org | Series A | $20M | Lilly Chen Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Regulated Industry Enterprise | |
| 30 | AlgoFET algofet.com | Seed | $1.8M | Ankit Mishra Founder | India | Seed Regulated Industry Hardware | |
| 31 | SpaceAM spaceam.co.uk | Seed | Undisclosed | Christopher Isaac CEO and Founder | United Kingdom | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 32 | NeoGeoInfo Technologies neogeoinfo.com | Series A | $20M | Sreeramam GV Co-Founder & CEO | India | Series A Enterprise AI-Native | |
| 33 | Seitec seitec.com.au | Seed | $4M | Daniel Stevens CEO & Founder | Australia | Seed Deep Tech Regulated Industry | |
| 34 | Terra Industries terraindustries.co | Seed | $52M | Nathan Nwachuku Co-founder & CEO | Nigeria | Seed Hiring New Market | |
| 35 | Quarkitech quarkitech.com | Pre-Seed | $240K | Sanyam Parashar Co-founder | India | Pre-Seed Deep Tech B2B | |
| 36 | Soctera soctera.com | Seed | $4M | Austin Hickman Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 37 | Aurelius Systems aureliussystems.com | Series A | $40M | Michael LaFramboise CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A Hiring Deep Tech | |
| 38 | Orbital Sentry orbitalsentry.ai | Pre-Seed | Undisclosed | Mark Keremedjiev CEO & Co-founder | United States | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 39 | Yaanendriya yaanendriya.com | Seed | $1.8M | Vamshi Bharadwaj M V Co-Founder & CEO | India | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 40 | Greenjets greenjets.com | Series A | $40M | Anmol Manohar CEO & Co-founder | United Kingdom | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 41 | Array Labs arraylabs.com | Series A | $21M | Andrew Peterson CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A YC Backed Deep Tech | |
| 42 | Six Robotics sixrobotics.com | Seed | €12M | Christian Fredrik Eggesbø Founder & CEO | Norway | Seed Deep Tech Hiring | |
| 43 | Project Q projectq.eu | Series A | €15M | Leonard Wessendorff CEO & Co-founder | Germany | Series A Deep Tech Open Source | |
| 44 | Arkenstone Defense arkenstonedefense.com | Seed | $35M | Peter Dixon Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Enterprise B2B | |
| 45 | Dominion Dynamics dominiondynamics.com | Series A | $100M | Eliot Pence CEO & Co-founder | Canada | Series A Deep Tech Regulated Industry | |
| 46 | Acodyne acodyne.com | Pre-Seed | €2.5M | Mads Schnack Co-founder & CEO | Denmark | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 47 | Volund Manufacturing volundmfg.com | Seed | $12M | Eric Hostetler Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 48 | Quartermaster quartermaster.ai | Series A | $43M | Neil Sobin Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 49 | Havoc havocai.com | Series A | $100M | Paul Lwin CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Defense Deep Tech | |
| 50 | GovWell govwell.com | Series A | $25M | Troy LeCaire CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A AI-Native Hiring | |
| 51 | M2 Foundry m2foundry.com | Pre-Seed | Undisclosed | Catherine Havasi Co-Founder | United States | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Second-Time Founder | |
| 52 | Apollyon Dynamics apollyondynamics.com | Pre-Seed | $480K | Jayant Khatri Co-Founder & CEO | India | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 53 | Pursuit pursuit.us | Series A | $22M | Mike Vichich Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A Second-Time Founder AI-Native | |
| 54 | SkyfireAI skyfire.ai | Seed | $11M | Don Mathis CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hardware AI-Native | |
| 55 | Stendr stendr.com | Pre-Seed | $5.4M | Aleksander Leonard Larsen Co-founder & CEO | Norway | Pre-Seed Defense & GovTech Hardware | |
| 56 | Ulysses ulysses.co | Series A | $38M | Akhil Voorakkara CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 57 | Octostar octostar.io | Seed | $6.8M | Giovanni Tummarello Co-founder & CEO | Ireland | Seed Deep Tech AI-Native | |
| 58 | Starcloud starcloud.com | Series A | $170M | Philip Johnston Co-founder and CEO | United States | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 59 | Airbase airbase.us | Seed | $5M | Ari Rosner CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed AI-Native B2B |