Defense Tech Startups

Armaments Research Company (ARC) builds AI-enabled sensors for individual weapons that provide warfighters with situational awareness, predictive logistics, and predictive maintenance in combat environments. Its products serve military and defense operations, offering after-action training analysis, command and control integration, and automated weapon health monitoring.

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ARMMO Defense Technologies designs and manufactures autonomous unmanned vehicles for military use, including unmanned surface vessels (USVs), ground vehicles (UGVs), and aerial vehicles (UAVs), along with electronic warfare systems. Its products include a reconnaissance catamaran USV and a drone-interceptor for GPS-denied environments.

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Arondite builds defence software for accelerated decision-making, enabling military and government organizations to respond faster to evolving global threats through technology platforms.

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Arotech (Inter-Coastal Electronics) develops, manufactures, and maintains test, telemetry, and live-fire training instrumentation systems, including the Tactical Engagement Simulation System (TESS) for US Army aviation. Its systems provide wireless telemetry, geometric pairing, area weapon effects, GPS tracking, and after-action review for U.S. DoD and international military customers.

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Ascent Aerospace provides tooling systems, factory automation, and integration services for the aerospace, defense, and space industries. Its offerings include automated fastening systems and factory integration for manufacturing aerostructures.

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Ashot Ashkelon Industries manufactures advanced systems and components, providing turnkey production solutions for the international aerospace and defense industries. It serves customers with demanding technical specifications in these sectors.

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AspenNav develops a software-defined, sensor-agnostic navigation platform that provides reliable positioning in GNSS-degraded or denied environments by decoupling navigation intelligence from specific hardware. It serves teams building autonomous and remotely operated vehicles across aerial, ground, and maritime platforms, including defense, space, robotics, and safety-critical systems.

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AstraNav develops M-GPS, a software-only positioning and navigation platform that uses Earth's magnetic field to provide sub-meter location data on existing devices without satellites, infrastructure, or connectivity. The technology serves navigation in GPS-denied environments across consumer, industrial, and defense applications such as smartphones, aircraft, submarines, autonomous vehicles, and shipping containers.

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Atalanta is a mathematical AI company that provides software verification and formal methods capabilities to ensure provably correct decision-making in complex systems for high-stakes missions in energy, space, and defense sectors.

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ATLAS Space Operations provides Ground Software as a Service through Freedom, connecting spacecraft operators to a federated global network of satellite ground stations via a single API running on AWS Cloud. It serves commercial spacecraft operators as well as the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, supporting single satellites through full constellations.

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Atreides builds a behavioural intelligence platform ("Insights Suite") that turns fragmented data into structured, real-time insight, plus deployable "Mission Systems" hardware and software with secure comms and edge processing for use in contested field environments. It serves operators, analysts, and decision-makers making high-consequence decisions across land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains.

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Augmenteum develops liquid crystal-based active optics that perform real-time aberration correction, jitter reduction, and field-of-view enhancement for smaller, lighter optical systems. Its technology targets applications including AR/VR wearables, cameras and sensors, microscopy, drones, industrial robotics, defense, and ophthalmic imaging.

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AURA AERO designs, industrializes, and produces next-generation civil and military aircraft. Based in Toulouse, France, the company focuses on European aviation for both civilian and defense applications.

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Auron Solutions develops software-defined technology to detect, classify, and intercept hostile drone signals while protecting military and critical infrastructure environments. The company provides non-kinetic electronic warfare capabilities designed for modern autonomous drone threats.

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Austal designs and constructs commercial and defence vessels, including RoPax cargo ships and military landing craft, operating shipyards globally with a presence in Australia and Vietnam. It serves commercial and defence maritime operators, providing shipbuilding and fleet sustainment services.

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Avalon Holographics develops NOVAC, a holographic display table that produces true holograms on demand, built through in-house hardware research and fabrication. The company operates in the holographic display and deeptech hardware category, with demo locations in Canada and the United States.

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Avendar builds an AI platform that helps European public-sector professionals make critical decisions, offering tools such as Caselink to collect, analyze and prioritize tips from the public for police investigators and to screen subsidy applications for corruption. It serves law enforcement and government organizations in Europe with data-driven intelligence.

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Aventra develops low-cost, long-range modular guidance kits that convert unguided munitions into precision weapons, including Piranha, a balloon-dropped payload glider for deep strike missions. Its products target military and defense operations with capabilities such as AI-guided precision strike, harassment fires, deep sensing, and communications extension.

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Avio designs, manufactures, and integrates space launchers and tactical missiles, operating as a space propulsion company. It serves the space and defense sectors and employs more than 1,500 people across Italy, France, the United States, and French Guiana.

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Awerian provides research and development services in defence technology, including ideas generation, rapid prototyping of technology demonstrators, and complete product design. The company serves the UK and its allies, focusing on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and electromagnetic applications.

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Axem Solutions provides on-premise AI software designed for critical infrastructure, defense, and space sectors, emphasizing data sovereignty and security with no cloud connectivity or external APIs. The platform runs entirely within customers' secure infrastructure and offers compliance-ready architecture for regulated environments.

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AXISCADES provides engineering and technology solutions across aerospace, defence, and ESAI (Electronics, Semiconductor, Automotive, Industrial) sectors. The company serves clients in these industries with product engineering and infrastructure services.

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Basemark is a software and services company that builds augmented reality (AR) and human-machine interface (HMI) systems for mission-critical applications. Its tools serve the automotive, defense, and enterprise/logistics sectors, covering HUDs, clusters, infotainment displays, smart helmets, drones, and last-mile navigation.

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BattleBoxes makes a retrofit sensor, lock, and network system that adds real-time security, audit trails, and tamper detection to existing military and industrial storage caches, containers, and units. It serves defense forces (NATO and partner nations) and dual-use customers such as first responders, customs, and construction, with roots in the Finnish Defence Forces.

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