43 Best Military Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Military Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 43 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $487.0m. The average funding per company in this subset is $11.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Numerica Corporation logo

Numerica Corporation

Numerica is a Fort Collins, Colorado-based space, air, and missile defense company

112

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

Pison logo

Pison

Pison is a human performance company that optimizes cognitive and physiological capability using gesture control.

7

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

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Securboration

Securboration is a Melbourne, Florida-based security, collaboration, and intelligence solutions company founded in 2001.

80

Funding Rounds

$44.6m

Money raised

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Dedrone

Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.

7

Funding Rounds

$128.9m

Money raised

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Echosec Systems Ltd.

Echosec Systems monitors risk and threat using data solutions.

2

Funding Rounds

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SureFire

SureFire is a Fountain Valley, California-based company founded in 1979.

1

Funding Rounds

Strategic Robotic Systems, Inc. logo

Strategic Robotic Systems, Inc.

Strategic Robotic Systems is a developer of underwater systems, including the FUSION underwater vehicle.

2

Funding Rounds

$950.0k

Money raised

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Surface Optics Corporation

Surface Optics Corporation offers services aimed at characterization, control, and exploitation of the optical properties of surfaces

6

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

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The Design Knowledge Company

The Design Knowledge Company is a Fairborn, Ohio-based software and engineering solutions company founded in 2003.

10

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

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Droneshield

Droneshield is a company that offers security drones to its clients.

9

Funding Rounds

$26.9m

Money raised

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American Robotics, Inc.

American Robotics, Inc. is a company founded in 2012 by Eitan Babcock, Reese Mozer and Vijay Somandepalli.

5

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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Ravn

RAVN is a defense industry company producing tactical communications solutions

5

Funding Rounds

$885.0k

Money raised

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Texas High Energy Materials, LLC

Texas High Energy Materials, LLC is a Cedar Park, Texas-based R&D firm and manufacturer of specialty chemicals and materials for military, aerospace, and other applications.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

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Ascent AeroSystems

Ascent AeroSystems is a company founded in 2014 by Jonathan Meringer, Nathaniel Meringer and Peter Fuchs.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Plantiga

Plantiga creates insoles that capture and monitor foot impact to detect asymmetries in real time for professional athletes. Advanced analytics on the data collected predicts injuries deriving from long-term use. Customers include the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Reveal Technology

Reveal Technology is a defense industry company that provides tactical computer vision and artificial intelligence solutions.

4

Funding Rounds

$13.6m

Money raised

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TRX Systems

TRX Systems is a Greenbelt, Maryland-based company founded in 2007 by Ben Funk, Carole Teolis and Gil Blankenship.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Robotics Inventions

Robotics Inventions is a personal autonomous robot manufacturing company.

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

Dephy logo

Dephy

Dephy is a robotics design firm founded in 2016 with the primary mission of bringing humans Beyond NatureTM with performance enhancing wearable robotics technologies.

1

Funding Rounds

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Zone7

Zone7 makes AI-powered athlete injury predictions.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

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Eduworks

Eduworks is a Corvallis, Oregon-based company founded in 2001.

13

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

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FireHUD

FireHUD provides physiological monitoring tools for teams to improve situational awareness.

5

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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Vivacelle Bio

Vivacelle Bio is a hypovolemia treatment founded in 2013 by Cuthbert Simpkins.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Rajant Corporation logo

Rajant Corporation

Rajant Corporation is a company founded in 2001 by Robert Schena.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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Cfuas

Cfuas, a company known as Shenzhen Changfeng Information Technology Company Limited, is a company that provides application solutions for the industrial-grade UAV systems.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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Etc International

ETC International is a Suffolk, Virginia-based company that conducts training engagements in support of US security cooperation efforts

1

Funding Rounds

$517.3k

Money raised

PurThread Technologies logo

PurThread Technologies

A company developing and manufacturing antimicrobial fibers and yarns for the healthcare, consumer, home, military and industrial markets

1

Funding Rounds

$2.1m

Money raised

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Kennon Products, Inc

Kennon is a Wyoming-based company that designs and manufactures products to protect high value assets for military and commercial aircraft

10

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

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Forterra

Forterra develops autonomous systems for ground-based movement focusing on defense and industrial use.

1

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

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TriboTEX

TriboTEX is a Colfax, Washington-based company founded in 2010 by Pavlo Rudenko.

4

Funding Rounds

$958.0k

Money raised

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Ōtolith Labs

Ōtolith Labs is a wearable for Vertigo founded by Sam Owen.

5

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

Drip Drop logo

Drip Drop

Drip Drop is an Oakland, California-based company founded in 2008.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Vectrona

Vectrona is a Virginia Beach, Virginia-based technology company founded in 2011.

2

Funding Rounds

$800.0k

Money raised

BaseConnect logo

BaseConnect

BaseConnect is a Enid, Oklahoma-based company founded in 2011 by Tony Weedn.

1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

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Liquidpiston

Liquidpiston is a Bloomfield, Connecticut-based company founded in 2004.

3

Funding Rounds

$14.8m

Money raised

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Barn Owl (company)

Barn Owl is a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based company founded in 2016 by Josh Phifer.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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Capacitech Energy

Capacitech Energy is an Orlando, Florida-based company founded in 2016 by Joe Sleppy.

1

Funding Rounds

$447.5k

Money raised

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SANDBOXX

SANDBOXX is a Virginia-based company founded in 2012 by Sam Meek.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Panacis Inc. logo

Panacis Inc.

Panacis Inc. is a Canada-based military company.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

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Military Fasteners

Military Fasteners is a B2B eCommerce distributor of mil-spec fasteners that primarily serves customers in the aerospace industries.

1

Funding Rounds

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

Kwesst Inc. logo

Kwesst Inc.

Kwesst Inc. is an Ontario-based company founded in 2017.

1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

Cupron Inc. logo

Cupron Inc.

Cupron Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based company.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised