42 Best Military Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Military Startups

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There are 42 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $487.0m. The average funding per company in this subset is $11.6m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

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

Key people:

80

Funding Rounds

$44.6m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$128.9m

Money raised

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

1

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

2

Funding Rounds

$950.0k

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

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

10

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

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

9

Funding Rounds

$26.9m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$885.0k

Money raised

RAVN is a defense industry company producing tactical communications solutions

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9

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$13.6m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

Robotics Inventions is a personal autonomous robot manufacturing company.

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1

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

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

Zone7 makes AI-powered athlete injury predictions.

13

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$517.3k

Money raised

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

10

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.1m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$958.0k

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

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

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$800.0k

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$14.8m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$447.5k

Money raised

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

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

Panacis Inc. is a Canada-based military company.

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1

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

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

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1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

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

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