46 Defense & GovTech companies raised a combined $977.8M across 9 pre-seed, 20 seed, 17 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- 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.
- Paul is a former US Navy flight officer and Burmese refugee who flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and earned three medals for his service.
The Defense & GovTech sector saw 46 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $977.8M. The median round sits at $12M, 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 20% of all Defense & GovTech activity in 2026.
Geographically, Defense & GovTech funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 22 of the 46 raises (48%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest Defense & GovTech round in 2026 is Starcloud's $170M series a, led by Philip Johnston. Defense & GovTech activity accelerated through Jul, when raises jumped to 7 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 | Pilgrim pilgrimlabs.com | Seed | $25M | Jake Adler Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Regulated Industry | |
| 2 | Terasi terasi.io | Seed | $12.6M | James Campion CEO & Co-founder | Sweden | Seed B2B Hardware | |
| 3 | TigerByte Cyber tigerbytecyber.us | Seed | $3M | Sage Secilmis CEO | United States | Seed B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 4 | Freya Industries freyaindustries.com | Pre-Seed | $576K | Jonas Astrom Founder & CEO | Sweden | Pre-Seed Hardware Regulated Industry | |
| 5 | Arlequin AI arlq.ai | Series A | $30.2M | Hugo Micheron CEO and Co-founder | France | Series A Enterprise New Market | |
| 6 | Ground A grounda.de | Pre-Seed | $9.8M | Tobias Brune CEO & Co-founder | Germany | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 7 | Creoir creoir.com | Seed | $2.2M | Antti Lilja CEO & Co-founder | Finland | Seed B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 8 | Aslan Protects aslanprotects.com | Seed | $20.8M | Chase Reid CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Seed Regulated Industry AI-Native | |
| 9 | INLEAP Photonics inleap-photonics.com | Seed | $21.6M | Marius Lammers CEO & Co-Founder | Germany | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 10 | Incera Solution incerasol.com | Series A | $10.3M | Kwon Young Kwan CEO | South Korea | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 11 | Airbility airbility.co.kr | Series A | $4.7M | Jinmo Lee CEO | South Korea | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 12 | Cloverleaf AI cloverleaf.ai | Series A | $8M | Adam Zucker CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 13 | Kepler Aerospace kepleraero.com | Seed | $8M | Navneet Singh CEO & Co-founder | India | Seed Hiring Deep Tech | |
| 14 | Blue Voice bluevoice.io | Seed | $6M | David Roosevelt Lawrence Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 15 | Mara mara.inc | Pre-Seed | $7M | Daniel Kofman Co-founder & CEO | United States | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 16 | FSH Technologies fsh.org | Series A | $20M | Lilly Chen Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Regulated Industry Enterprise | |
| 17 | AlgoFET algofet.com | Seed | $1.8M | Ankit Mishra Founder | India | Seed Regulated Industry Hardware | |
| 18 | SpaceAM spaceam.co.uk | Seed | Undisclosed | Christopher Isaac CEO and Founder | United Kingdom | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 19 | NeoGeoInfo Technologies neogeoinfo.com | Series A | $20M | Sreeramam GV Co-Founder & CEO | India | Series A Enterprise AI-Native | |
| 20 | Seitec seitec.com.au | Seed | $4M | Daniel Stevens CEO & Founder | Australia | Seed Deep Tech Regulated Industry | |
| 21 | Terra Industries terraindustries.co | Seed | $52M | Nathan Nwachuku Co-founder & CEO | Nigeria | Seed Hiring New Market | |
| 22 | Quarkitech quarkitech.com | Pre-Seed | $240K | Sanyam Parashar Co-founder | India | Pre-Seed Deep Tech B2B | |
| 23 | Soctera soctera.com | Seed | $4M | Austin Hickman Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 24 | Aurelius Systems aureliussystems.com | Series A | $40M | Michael LaFramboise CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A Hiring Deep Tech | |
| 25 | Orbital Sentry orbitalsentry.ai | Pre-Seed | Undisclosed | Mark Keremedjiev CEO & Co-founder | United States | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 26 | Yaanendriya yaanendriya.com | Seed | $1.8M | Vamshi Bharadwaj M V Co-Founder & CEO | India | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 27 | Greenjets greenjets.com | Series A | $40M | Anmol Manohar CEO & Co-founder | United Kingdom | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 28 | Array Labs arraylabs.com | Series A | $21M | Andrew Peterson CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A YC Backed Deep Tech | |
| 29 | Six Robotics sixrobotics.com | Seed | €12M | Christian Fredrik Eggesbø Founder & CEO | Norway | Seed Deep Tech Hiring | |
| 30 | Project Q projectq.eu | Series A | €15M | Leonard Wessendorff CEO & Co-founder | Germany | Series A Deep Tech Open Source | |
| 31 | Arkenstone Defense arkenstonedefense.com | Seed | $35M | Peter Dixon Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Enterprise B2B | |
| 32 | Dominion Dynamics dominiondynamics.com | Series A | $100M | Eliot Pence CEO & Co-founder | Canada | Series A Deep Tech Regulated Industry | |
| 33 | Acodyne acodyne.com | Pre-Seed | €2.5M | Mads Schnack Co-founder & CEO | Denmark | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 34 | Volund Manufacturing volundmfg.com | Seed | $12M | Eric Hostetler Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 35 | Quartermaster quartermaster.ai | Series A | $43M | Neil Sobin Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 36 | Havoc havocai.com | Series A | $100M | Paul Lwin CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Defense Deep Tech | |
| 37 | GovWell govwell.com | Series A | $25M | Troy LeCaire CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A AI-Native Hiring | |
| 38 | M2 Foundry m2foundry.com | Pre-Seed | Undisclosed | Catherine Havasi Co-Founder | United States | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Second-Time Founder | |
| 39 | Apollyon Dynamics apollyondynamics.com | Pre-Seed | $480K | Jayant Khatri Co-Founder & CEO | India | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 40 | Pursuit pursuit.us | Series A | $22M | Mike Vichich Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A Second-Time Founder AI-Native | |
| 41 | SkyfireAI skyfire.ai | Seed | $11M | Don Mathis CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hardware AI-Native | |
| 42 | Stendr stendr.com | Pre-Seed | $5.4M | Aleksander Leonard Larsen Co-founder & CEO | Norway | Pre-Seed Defense & GovTech Hardware | |
| 43 | Ulysses ulysses.co | Series A | $38M | Akhil Voorakkara CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 44 | Octostar octostar.io | Seed | $6.8M | Giovanni Tummarello Co-founder & CEO | Ireland | Seed Deep Tech AI-Native | |
| 45 | Starcloud starcloud.com | Series A | $170M | Philip Johnston Co-founder and CEO | United States | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 46 | Airbase airbase.us | Seed | $5M | Ari Rosner CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed AI-Native B2B |