Scout AI
Silicon Valley, US Β· Founded 2024 Β· 57 employees on LinkedIn Β· 21 known investors
Scout develops Fury, a multimodal foundation model for defense robotics that lets operators command fleets of heterogeneous ground, air, sea, and space robots via natural language and coordinate them autonomously. The company builds hardware-agnostic embodied AI intended for the US military and defense-ecosystem partners.
Also known as Scout Β· Scout AI Inc.
Founders & leadership
Scout AI was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis.
Investors Β· 21
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Also in the syndicate Β· 8
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$115M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds Β· 2025β2026
- $100MSeries AApr 2026 Β· 3 sources
Align Ventures (lead), Draper Associates (lead), Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Decisive Point, Disruptive Founders Fund, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Neman Ventures, Sigmas Group, Vaughn Capital Partners
Source β - $15MSeedApr 2025 Β· 2 sources
Align Ventures (lead), Booz Allen Ventures (lead), BVVC, Decisive Point Ventures, Draper Associates, Evolution VC, Expansion VC, FJ Labs, Gaingels, Habitat Partners, Monte Carlo Capital, Perot Jain, Piedmont Capital Investments, Revelry Venture Partners, Sigmas Group
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Source: company announcements and press reports β follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Scout AI Inc. is a Sunnyvale, California-based artificial intelligence company developing Fury, a defense-specific vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model for unmanned systems. Fury is an embodied AI system designed to perceive the physical world, interpret natural language commands, and issue real-time motor commands to robotic platforms operating across ground, air, sea and space domains. The company positions itself as a frontier AI lab focused on the reasoning and orchestration layer for military autonomy, distinct from defense primes and defense-technology manufacturers focused on hardware production and integration.
The model is intended to convert the prevailing one-warfighter-to-one-robot control model into one-to-many coordination: operators issue commands by voice, text or map-based input, robots respond in natural language and interpret commander intent, and robots communicate with one another through a natural-language protocol for swarm coordination. Fury is built to run at the tactical edge in communications- and GPS-denied environments without cloud connectivity, and supports adaptive retraining on the edge with secure over-the-air model deployment. The company also developed Ox, a command-and-control-based autonomous vehicle orchestrator, and has publicly demonstrated a fully autonomous end-to-end strike mission executed by AI agents running off-road vehicles and drones.
Scout AI's first two prototypes were the G01 unmanned ground vehicle and the A01 unmanned aerial vehicle, which operated autonomously under Fury at the company's proving grounds in the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of its Series A announcement the company employed 34 people.
Founding story
Scout AI was founded in August 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis. Adcock, who serves as CEO, is a former technology private equity executive and a board member at humanoid robotics company Figure AI. Otis, the CTO, is a serial entrepreneur who was a founding engineer and Director of Autonomy and AI at Kodiak Robotics and Head of Data Science and Chief of Staff at Uber ATG, built autonomy systems for commercial and military platforms, and previously sold a venture-backed startup to Target.
Business model
Scout AI develops and licenses embodied AI software rather than manufacturing robotic hardware. It describes itself as platform-first and partnership-driven, with Fury designed to be lightweight, modular and hardware-agnostic so that robotics and defense-platform companies can embed physical intelligence into existing systems. Revenue sources evidenced in sources include U.S. government contracts, with $11 million booked with the Department of War/Department of Defense in the company's first year.
Government contracting with the U.S. Department of Defense/Department of War, alongside integration partnerships with robotics and defense-platform companies embedding Fury into their hardware.
Traction
Scout AI booked $11 million in contracts with the Department of War/Department of Defense in its first year and was selected for multiple DoD contracts at the time of its 2025 stealth emergence. It unveiled the Ox autonomous vehicle orchestrator, publicly demonstrated a fully autonomous end-to-end strike mission executed by AI agents, was selected as a winner of the U.S. Army's xTechOverwatch competition, and grew to a 34-person team roughly 18 months after founding.
Latest developments
On April 29, 2026, Scout AI announced an oversubscribed $100 million Series A co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, with participation from Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, Disruptive Founders Fund and Vaughn Capital Partners. The proceeds are earmarked for scaling Fury's foundational military AI models and multi-agent collaboration capabilities.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Scout AI describes itself as a frontier AI lab for military autonomy positioned at the orchestration and reasoning layer, distinct from defense primes and defense-tech neo-primes focused on manufacturing and integration. Its April 2026 Series A was characterized by the company and trade press as the largest Series A financing in the U.S. defense technology sector to date.
Unlike conventional autonomy software or text-only language models, Fury outputs motor commands to machines and is hardware-agnostic across form factors and domains. It requires as little as one commercial off-the-shelf camera and a low-power inference chip, avoids active sensors such as LIDAR and radar, functions without cloud or external connectivity, and enables robot-to-robot natural-language coordination for one-to-many control.
Technology
Fury is a multimodal vision-language-action foundation model trained on large-scale real-world imitation data and simulation, connecting vision and language to robotic actions. It supports a family of models sized for varying compute and power budgets, runs on commercial off-the-shelf hardware including a single camera stream and a low-power inference chip, and uses passive vision-based sensing (RGB or thermal) rather than active sensors such as LIDAR or radar. It provides real-time on-edge decision-making in comms- and GPS-denied conditions, robot-to-robot natural-language coordination, edge retraining and secure over-the-air updates. The company also built Ox, a command-and-control-based autonomous vehicle orchestrator for heterogeneous fleets.
Go-to-market
The company pursues a partnership-driven strategy, embedding Fury into partners' existing robotic platforms, alongside direct U.S. Department of Defense contracting and competitive government programs such as the U.S. Army's xTechOverwatch competition. It emerged from stealth in April 2025 with a public launch announcement and has used public demonstrations of Fury and Ox to validate its technology.
The U.S. military, including U.S. Army programs, and robotics and defense-ecosystem companies seeking to add autonomy to existing unmanned ground, air, sea and space platforms.
Geography
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, in Silicon Valley, with proving grounds in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Its customer focus is the U.S. military.
History
Founded in August 2024, Scout AI emerged from stealth on April 16, 2025 with a $15 million seed round led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures, multiple Department of Defense contracts, and the unveiling of Fury; its G01 ground vehicle and A01 aerial vehicle prototypes were by then operating autonomously at its Santa Cruz Mountains proving grounds. Over the following year the company booked $11 million in Department of War contracts, introduced the Ox command-and-control autonomous vehicle orchestrator, publicly showcased a Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator running a heterogeneous fleet, won the U.S. Army's xTechOverwatch competition, and demonstrated an autonomous end-to-end strike mission. On April 29, 2026 it announced a $100 million Series A co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates.
Risks & controversies
The company operates in military autonomy and lethal-effects applications, having demonstrated an autonomous end-to-end strike mission executed by AI agents, a domain where some AI companies have stepped back from defense work. Its revenue to date is concentrated in U.S. government contracts.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline Β· 6
launches, deals, and filingsOversubscribed $100 million Series A co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates to accelerate development of Fury; described as the largest Series A financing in the U.S. defense technology sector to date.
$100M source β
Scout AI announced it was selected as a winner of the U.S. Army's xTechOverwatch Competition.
Scout AI unveiled Ox, its command-and-control-based autonomous vehicle orchestrator, and publicly showcased the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator running a heterogeneous fleet.
Scout AI announced its emergence from stealth with an oversubscribed $15 million seed round led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures.
$15M source β
Scout AI publicly unveiled Fury, a defense-specific vision-language-action foundation model, along with its G01 unmanned ground vehicle and A01 unmanned aerial vehicle prototypes operating autonomously at its Santa Cruz Mountains proving grounds.
Scout AI disclosed it had been selected for two Department of Defense contracts at the time of its stealth emergence.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Scout AI do?
- Scout AI builds Fury, a vision-language-action foundation model that lets operators command fleets of unmanned defense systems.
- Who founded Scout AI?
- Scout AI was founded by Colby Adcock, Collin Otis in 2024.
- Who are Scout AI's investors?
- Scout AI's investors include Booz Allen Ventures, Decisive Point, Draper Associates, Evolution VC Partners, Habitat Partners, Align Ventures, BVVC, Expansion VC and 5 more.
- How much funding has Scout AI raised?
- Scout AI has disclosed $115M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Scout AI headquartered?
- Scout AI is headquartered in Silicon Valley, US.