Top 10 Military Sea Drone startups

Updated: April 20, 2024

These startups and companies specialize in creating autonomous or remotely operated sea drones tailored for a range of military applications, including reconnaissance, surveillance, mine countermeasures, and environmental monitoring.
1
Country: USA
L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
2
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.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $30.1M
Terradepth utilizes the most innovative contractor-owned robotics and data management solution to deliver best-in-class ocean data at Petabyte scale in near real-time. We offer maximum force multiplication with our vertically integrated end-to-end solution for defense.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $7M
Dive Technologies is a developer of underwater vehicles used to produce reliable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).
5
Country: Norway | Funding: NOK51M
Blueye aim to limit risk for divers, protect critical infrastructure and investigate possible threats underwater using ROVs.
6
Country: Canada | Funding: $1M
Kraken Robotics develops high speed, actively stabilized Synthetic Aperture Sonar towfish that operates at speeds up to 10 knots.
7
Country: India | Funding: $725.5K
EyeROV develops underwater drone/remotely operated vehicle (ROV) TUNA used for search and recovery, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), port security, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR).
8
Country: India
Sagar Defence Engineering provides new innovations and complete Unmanned Marine Vehicles solutions in commercial and defence sector.
9
Country: UK
ecoSUB Robotics are designers and manufactures of advanced, small, low cost autonomous underwater vehicles.
10
Country: Norway
Eelume develops subsea self-propelled vehicles with autonomous robotic arms whose slender and flexible body can transit over long distances and carry out IMR in confined spaces not accessible by conventional underwater vehicles.
11
Country: France
DIODON Drone Technology is a manufacturer of rough-terrain amphibious drones.
12
Country: Denmark
SEABAT is developing a modular full electric maritime hybrid battery concept to substantially reduce the costs of large waterborne battery systems for over 1MWh.
13
Country: USA
Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.