Scout AI Raises $15M in Seed Funding

Scout AI, a Sunnyvale, CA-based defense-specific Vision-Language-Action (VLA) company, raised $15M in Seed funding.

The round was led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures, with participation from Draper Associates, Decisive Point Ventures, Perot Jain, Sigmas Group, Evolution VC, BVVC, Habitat Partners, Piedmont Capital Investments, FJ Labs, Revelry Venture Partners, Monte Carlo Capital, Expansion VC, and Gaingels.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Founded in August 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis, Scout has developed Fury, a defense-specific Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model engineered for defense robot. It is an embodied AI system — capable of perceiving the physical world, interpreting natural language, and issuing real-time motor commands to act decisively even in communication and GPS-denied environments.

Scout’s first two prototypes, the G01 unmanned ground vehicle and A01 unmanned aerial vehicle, are already operating autonomously powered by Fury at the company’s proving grounds in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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16/04/2025