2026-10-22
$961M of new funding is targeting defence and national security
5 funded companies building into defence and national security. The work in scope is what the Head of Defence Programs owns today.
The funding
Frontier AI to orchestrate critical infrastructure and national security.
Spark Capital leads $325m round for AI aviation startup ASI →We design and build autonomous systems in Portugal for defense, infrastructure, logistics, and emergency response. Ready to join the future with us?
Lisbon’s Beyond Vision raises over €28 million to scale AI drones for civilian and defence markets →Orbital defense built for scale.
Space Defense Firm Fortastra Raises $30 Million →Arke Telekom started operations in 2014 with TÜBİTAK-funded R&D projects in the civilian sector together with consulting projects in the defence sector.
Arke Telekom lands €1M from ACT Venture Partners to advance drone communications →What it means
Capital arriving in a function is a reliable leading indicator. It does not mean the incumbents are wrong, and it does not mean these companies will succeed. It means that within the next few quarters the people who run this work will be asked what their function is doing about it, and the honest answer has to start with where that function actually stands.
So we built the assessment for it. Not a purchase decision, a structured set of questions to take to your own team.