defense startups

Kilsar

ItsWare

Autonomous Agri Solutions

Snorkel AI

SpaceX

Skydio

Databricks

Databricks is a data, analytics, and AI company founded in 2013 in San Francisco. It pioneered the data lakehouse architecture and offers cloud-based tools for unified data analytics.

Radical AI

Hadrian

Hadrian builds vertically integrated, semi‑autonomous precision factories for aerospace and defense, enabling on‑demand production of high‑mix, low‑volume parts.

Aalo Atomics

Aalo Atomics develops factory-manufactured small-scale nuclear reactors. Founded in 2022 in Austin, Texas, the startup aims to deliver 50 MWe modular Aalo Pod reactors for data centers and microgrids, targeting 3¢ per kWh.

Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems develops wafer-scale AI accelerator chips and compute systems. Founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman and cofounders, the Sunnyvale company builds Wafer Scale Engine chips powering AI supercomputers.

Syntiant

Syntiant designs ultra-low-power neural network processors for always-on voice and sensor inference. Founded in 2017 and based in Irvine, CA, it has raised funding from Intel, Microsoft and Amazon to enable edge AI.