Shield AI, a Washington, DC-based company building autonomy software products and defense aircraft, raised $240M in Series F-1 Funding, at $5.3 Billion valuation.
Backers included strategic investors L3Harris (NYSE: LHX) and Hanwha Aerospace (KRX: 012450), and existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Innovative Technology, and Washington Harbour.
The company intends to use the funds to expand the deployment of Hivemind Enterprise to OEMs, governments, and companies to empower the larger robotics and drone industrial base to build autonomy products.
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a deep-technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Hivemind Pilot, Hivemind Commander, and Hivemind Forge, as well as V-BAT and Sentient Vision Systems (wide-area motion imaging software).
Hivemind Enterprise is an autonomy software suite for developers and organizations building, testing, evaluating, and deploying autonomy for intelligent machines. The Hivemind Enterprise product suite includes an integrated autonomy factory, industrial-grade production ready middleware, a rich autonomy catalogue, and mission control, empowering developers to build and own their mission-ready autonomy solutions with unprecedented speed and flexibility.
With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), the company serves U.S. and allied operations worldwide.
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07/03/2025