Havoc AI

Havoc develops software for collaborative autonomy across sea, air, and land domains. The company's stated premise is that the hardware blueprint for drones, boats, and vehicles already exists and that the remaining gap is software enabling large numbers of heterogeneous autonomous assets to operate together. Its platform is designed so a single operator can supervise tens, hundreds, or thousands of autonomous assets, with humans setting intent, constraints, and authority either on the loop or in the loop.

The Havoc software suite comprises four components that connect vehicles, communications relays, operator interfaces, and backend systems into one operational framework. Havoc C2 provides the one-to-many operator interface for defining intent and directing distributed assets. Havoc Insights applies AI and analytics to real-time data streams from vehicles, sensors, and system services to surface insights, trends, and anomalies for mission decision support. Havoc Connect establishes a resilient peer-to-peer overlay network so systems can exchange commands, telemetry, and mission data across intermittent, degraded, or heterogeneous networks. Havoc OS runs on the edge platforms themselves, enabling collaborative missions and continued operation in DDIL (denied, degraded, intermittent, limited) conditions.

Stated use cases span defense and commercial applications, including contested logistics, maritime domain awareness, defensive escort of high-value assets in transit, sensor fusion and tracking across radar, EO/IR, AIS, and positional data, and port security patrols of critical maritime infrastructure.

Business model

Havoc supplies an autonomy software suite (C2, Insights, Connect, OS) that is integrated onto third-party autonomous vehicles and existing platforms, systems, and C2 networks rather than sold as a vehicle manufacturer's product.

Traction

Havoc states its autonomy is integrated and deployed on vehicles around the world with more than 25,000 hours of autonomous operations. The company was selected to demonstrate autonomous systems alongside U.S. and allied forces at RIMPAC 2026, hosted by the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and was named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026.

Latest developments

In 2026 Havoc announced a $100M Series A, signed a memorandum of understanding with Azak to collaborate on high mobility autonomous ground systems (June 2026), was selected to demonstrate autonomous systems at RIMPAC 2026 (June 2026), and was named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026 (July 2026). Co-founder and CEO Paul Lwin was profiled by Forbes in May 2026.