US Defense Startup Scout AI Raises $100M Funding

Sunnyvale-based Scout AI secures $100M Series A, the largest in US defense tech, to scale its AI model for autonomous military operations across air, land, sea, and space.

Scout AI raised $100 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to accelerate development of Fury, its foundation model for coordinating unmanned military systems, the company said April 29. 

Align Ventures and Draper Associates co-led the round. Booz Allen Ventures, Decisive Point, Evolution VC Partners, Neman Ventures, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, Disruptive Founders Fund, and Vaughn Capital Partners also participated. Scout AI described the raise as the largest Series A financing in the U.S. defense technology sector to date. 

Fury is engineered to translate commander intent into coordinated autonomous action across heterogeneous fleets of unmanned systems spanning air, land, sea, and space. The model is built for deployment at the tactical edge, where communications may be degraded or denied, Scout AI said in its press release. 

Collin Otis, chief technology officer and co-founder of Scout AI, said the capital will be used to scale the company’s foundational military AI and expand multi-agent collaboration capabilities. “The U.S. military has been promised true, one-to-many autonomy for years. Fury finally delivers it,” Otis said in the release. 

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Founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Otis, the Sunnyvale-based company has booked $11 million in contracts with the Department of War since its founding 18 months ago. Scout AI also unveiled Ox, a command-and-control-based autonomous vehicle orchestrator, and conducted a publicly demonstrated end-to-end autonomous strike mission executed by AI agents, according to the press release. The company said it currently employs 34 people. 

Tyrone Lee, partner at Draper Associates, said in the release that advantage in future conflicts will favor whichever side can orchestrate and command uncrewed systems most effectively. The move comes as defense-technology investment has drawn increasing attention from venture capital firms focused on autonomous systems and AI-enabled warfare. 

CEO and co-founder Colby Adcock said in the release that the company intends to recruit engineers specifically for Fury development. It is unclear when Scout AI expects Fury to reach full operational deployment or whether additional government contract awards are anticipated in the near term. 

Scout AI describes itself as a frontier AI lab focused exclusively on the reasoning layer for unmanned warfare, distinct from defense prime contractors and hardware-focused defense technology firms. 

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