Defense Tech Startups

LiveView Technologies provides mobile and stationary surveillance systems for remote security monitoring across construction, retail, law enforcement, and other industries. The company offers rapidly deployed surveillance solutions powered by mobile units, solar panels, and software.

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Lysk is a European defense technology startup building modern software designed for hostile environments, bringing cloud infrastructure practices in security and networking to European armies. It serves military and defense organizations across Europe.

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M2 Foundry is a venture studio that builds, funds, and transitions dual-use technology serving both public and private sectors. It identifies technology solutions for national interest needs and creates startups to develop and commercialize them, focusing on financial system security, supply chain resilience, secure AI systems, and decision-ready information.

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MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products across silicon, gallium arsenide, and indium phosphide technologies, serving customers who need specialized semiconductor solutions. The company operates fabrication facilities, design centers, and foundry services globally.

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Magal Solutions is a provider of border security and perimeter protection systems and technologies. The company serves government agencies, defense ministries, and strategic enterprise accounts worldwide, with a focus on homeland security and infrastructure protection.

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MAIK builds AI-powered digital intelligence officers that perform end-to-end intelligence analysis for the U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. The system is designed to compress intelligence-to-decision cycles and enable resource-constrained units to increase analytical capacity.

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Mandala Space Ventures backs founders building space technology, bringing together operators, engineers, and investors with backgrounds in spaceflight. It positions itself as an investment and venture-building firm focused on the space industry.

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Mantari builds a decision intelligence platform for weather analysis and forecasting, using a distributed network of sensors fused with AI to turn environmental signals into actionable intelligence. It targets governments and national security first, with plans to serve the broader global economy across areas like trade, energy grids, and defense.

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MapLarge provides a location analytics platform for analysts, data scientists, and AI algorithm developers to analyze business, demographic, and POI data. The suite offers site selection, territory management, spatial analytics, and multi-sensor imagery analysis capabilities.

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Maximus provides technology, operational services, and human-centered design to government agencies, supporting programs across health, human services, veteran support, citizen experience, defense, and national security. It focuses on helping public-sector agencies modernize and deliver services at scale.

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Mayman Aerospace develops heavy-lift, high-speed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with AI-based onboard autonomy and gimbaled turbine propulsion. Its aircraft target defense and dual-use missions in environments lacking infrastructure, with propulsion, airframe, and autonomy developed in house.

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MC2 Technologies develops radiofrequency jamming systems and detection technologies for counter-drone, counter-RCIED (improvised explosive device), and concealed object detection applications, serving defense, security, and military organizations.

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McNally Industries manufactures and distributes industrial equipment and defense products, including pump systems. The company serves the aerospace and defense markets.

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Groupe Meloche is a Quebec-based company in the aerospace supply chain that manufactures precision components and is expanding through acquisitions such as Groupe Rossi Aéro. It serves the aeronautics industry in Quebec and internationally.

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Merlin develops aircraft-agnostic autonomy software for aviation, with a system designed to be adapted to existing and future aircraft. It partners with the U.S. military, including U.S. Special Operations Command, to bring autonomous flight capabilities to platforms such as the C-130J for tactical transport missions.

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Mesa Quantum develops chip-scale quantum sensors—including atomic clocks, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and accelerometers—for industrial and defense applications, with a focus on Alternative Position, Navigation, and Timing (Alt-PNT) as a resilient backup to GPS. Its low size, weight, and power sensors target product developers, autonomous systems, and military customers seeking GPS-independent synchronization and navigation.

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Mesirow Financial's investment banking division provides M&A advisory, corporate finance, and capital markets services to entrepreneurs, private equity firms, family offices, and corporations through sector-focused expertise. The division serves clients across multiple industries including food and beverage, agribusiness, and aerospace and defense.

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Methera builds satellite systems and space-based network infrastructure designed for secure, resilient dual-use communications and connectivity. It targets critical national infrastructure and organizations operating in contested domains, providing high-capacity satellite communications and operational awareness services.

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Metropolitan builds a zero trust, data-centric security platform that ingests sensor data at the edge in real time, protects it with two layers of quantum-safe encryption, and relays it peer-to-peer to authorized users and applications. It targets mission-critical and operational environments such as battlefield, underground, and arctic deployments, using memory-safe languages and formal methods to guarantee reliability.

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MetroStar develops AI-enabled products and solutions for the federal government, combining experienced practitioners with advanced AI to support decision-making, system modernization, and mission-critical operations. The company focuses on maintenance automation, observability platforms, and application modernization to meet federal priorities and defense capabilities.

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MHI Ship Repair & Services provides marine repair and conversion services for commercial ship owners, the U.S. Navy, and other maritime operators from its facility in Norfolk, Virginia. The company offers hull and machinery repairs, engineering services, and full-service ship repair with quality assurance standards recognized by state, federal, and class societies.

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Microdentify develops AI-powered forensic technology that analyzes environmental DNA to trace criminal suspects and contraband to specific locations, serving law enforcement and security organizations. The company applies machine learning to link genetic traces to geographical locations for crime investigation and defense applications.

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Micropore develops CO2-absorbent products based on its solid absorbent technology, serving scuba/rebreather, medical, mine safety, and submarine markets. Its products remove carbon dioxide in confined-space and life-support applications for military, commercial, and recreational users.

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MIG Capital is a German investment fund that invests in deep technology startups with impact, including defense and dual-use technologies relevant to European technological sovereignty and security. The fund focuses on breakthrough innovations in areas like quantum computing, space technology, semiconductors, and AI that address both commercial and geopolitical challenges.

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