Top 10 Counter-Drone Military startups

Updated: April 22, 2024

These startups are developing and deploying cutting-edge technologies designed to detect, track, and neutralize enemy drones. Leveraging a combination of radar systems, advanced sensors, and artificial intelligence, these startups provide military forces with real-time situational awareness, enabling proactive responses to potential threats.
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Country: USA | Funding: $692.5M
Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Provider of AI-based surveillance and reconnaissance solutions for the defense sector. It offers an autonomous operational platform based on sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to monitor and control warfare assets.
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Country: USA
CACI provides technology that enables C4ISR superiority for air, ground, sea, space, and cyber domains. Our software defined electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and counter-unmanned aircraft technologies (C-UAS) provide protection and deliver precision effects against any adversary.
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Country: USA | Funding: $287.4M
Provider of AI-powered counter UAV systems. It offers a software-defined electromagnetic pulse system for defence and public safety applications. It has an in-built high-power microwave beam emitter to detect and disable neutralize single drones or entire swarms even in crowded spaces. It also offers precision detection systems to detect unauthorized vessels in waterways.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $123.7M
Airobotics provides an end-to-end, fully automatic solution for collecting aerial data and gaining invaluable insights.
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Country: USA | Funding: $97.9M
Provider of AI-based smart airspace security solutions. It comprises an array of RF sensors to detect, identify, and locate various drones in real-time, based on parameters, such as noise, shape, & movement patterns. It has a machine learning-based drone library to automate the protection of airspaces against unauthorized drones.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $28M
D-Fend Solutions is the leading counter-drone cyber-takeover technology provider, enabling full control, safety, & continuity.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25M
Airspace provides a drone detection and disabling system. It performs multi-dimensional risk analysis by leveraging Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and advanced robotics with situational and historic data.
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Country: USA | Funding: $21.9M
Fortem Technologies develops radar systems for detecting airborne objects and counter UAV systems for commercial and military applications. Its DroneHunter is an autonomous perimeter detection (and protection) solution, designed to detect, classify, and secure against rogue drones. On detecting an intruder drone, it uses its AI-directed detection, tracking, and guidance for remediating the air threat at a standoff distance, with no collateral damage.
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Country: USA | Funding: $12M
Allen Control Systems is a defense technology firm for a new era of drone warfare.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $10.3M
Regulus Cyber is a software technology company that provides smart sensor security services.
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Country: USA
BlueHalo is the transformation of modern warfare in defense and space.
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Country: India | Funding: $1.2M
BBBS Anti-Drone Defense System have the state of the art technology to detect and nullify the commercially available off the shelf (COTS) drones such as DJI Mavic, Phantom etc.
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Country: UK | Funding: £878K
Supporting a sustainable future where drones change the way we view, interact with, and move around our world.
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Country: Australia | Funding: A$50K
DroneSec is revolutionising cybersecurity and threat intelligence for safe and secure drone operations.
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Country: USA
Tarsier develops optical-based drone detection and tracking systems for commercial, government, and military users. Manufacturer of AI-based drones for defense purposes. The company claims that its proprietary artificial intelligent algorithms precisely localize and track aerial threats in real-time thereby providing the situational awareness required to defend against aerial threats.
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Country: UK
Vizgard provides AI-based object tracking for unmanned and counter-unmanned systems. This enables automatic visual confirmation and tracking threats such as unauthorized drones.
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Country: Ukraine
Fowler is an unmanned aerial vehicle with assignments for flying fortune-telling drones in the field.
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Country: Ukraine
KORT is producing UAV suppression products and attack drones with a range of up to 1000 km.
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Country: Ukraine
Antidrone CC develops anti-drone guns
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Country: Germany
Aaronia is a manufacturing-based company that offers RF and EMF solutions.
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Country: Canada
AerialX is developing the future of unmanned aircraft system technology.
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Country: USA
Airshare develops counter-drone system that exploits a key vulnerability that all hostile drones possess: they all need to generate lift in order to fly.
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Country: Poland
WB Group specializes in state-of-the-art solutions for international armed forces, radio communication equipment, and weapons systems.
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Country: India
Vinveli manufactures some of the world’s most capable firearms and defence equipment and Radio Frequency based anti-drone systems