Landscape Activity

Companies recently added to Axomap

Week 29: Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2026

General Compute

generalcompute.com

General Compute is an AI inference cloud and neocloud provider that offers low-latency hosted model APIs, dedicated capacity, and private model serving on optimized infrastructure.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2026 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Financialization of Compute

Milliray

milliray.com

Milliray builds millimeter-wave radar-based airspace security systems that detect, track, and classify small drones and swarms in real time.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage Unknown Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Seeing Systems

seeing-systems.com

Seeing Systems builds autonomous strike drones, modular FPV loitering munitions, and agentic AI control software for defense and military operators.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Servo7

servo7.com

Servo7 builds AI-driven warehouse robots that automate heavy-lifting tasks such as container unloading, palletizing, depalletizing, sortation, and case handling in existing warehouse operations.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

🇪🇺 AI-Native Robotics & Robot Intelligence Landscape

Daqstra

daqstra.com

Daqstra is an AI-native platform for data acquisition, orchestration, and real-time control of physical test systems, helping engineering teams run closed-loop hardware workflows with human approval in the loop.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI Copilots & Workflow Automation

Operon

operonsolutions.com

Operon builds an AI data layer for the process and manufacturing industries that digitizes complex engineering documents like P&IDs into structured, queryable context for enterprise workflows.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2026 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI Context & Data Infrastructure

OpenRelay

openrelay.inc

OpenRelay is a distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference platform that connects consumer and datacenter GPUs into a fault-tolerant mesh for deploying production model workloads.

2 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2026 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The AI Inference Stack

Conifer

conifer.build

Conifer is an AI inference gateway that routes requests across local and cloud models, providing one interface, one account, and one bill for production inference.

3 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The AI Inference Stack

Flexion Robotics AG

flexion.ai

Flexion builds an AI autonomy stack for humanoid robots, including vision-language-action models and low-latency whole-body control software that help robots learn skills and adapt in real-world conditions.

2-10 employees Employees Series A Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

🇪🇺 AI-Native Robotics & Robot Intelligence Landscape

Loft Orbital

loftorbital.com

Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure company that provides turnkey satellite missions and on-orbit operations for governments, companies, and research institutions.

201-500 employees Employees Series C Stage 2017 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

HIVE Autonomy AS

hiveautonomy.no

HIVE builds an AI "silicon brain" that retrofits existing industrial machines with supervised autonomy and remote operation for use in construction, logistics, mining, and heavy industry.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

🇪🇺 AI-Native Robotics & Robot Intelligence Landscape

Luffy AI

luffy.ai

Luffy AI develops neuroplastic, adaptive AI controllers for real-time industrial and robotic control, including robotics/humanoids, drones, motors/drives, thermal systems, and other physical systems. ([luffy.ai](https://www.luffy.ai/?trk=public_post_share-update_update-text))

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

🇪🇺 AI-Native Robotics & Robot Intelligence Landscape

Keybotic

keybotic.com

Keybotic designs and builds autonomous robot dogs for industrial inspections, using AI to detect anomalies and report real-time alerts in hazardous facilities.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength

Confidence: Low

🇪🇺 AI-Native Robotics & Robot Intelligence Landscape

Arq Quantum Technologies

arqtech.eu

Barcelona-based deep-tech startup building hardware for the future quantum internet, specifically solid-state quantum memories and quantum repeater nodes for scalable quantum networking.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

Quantum Computing Infrastructure

Applied Computing Technologies Ltd

appliedcomputing.com

Applied Computing builds foundation-model-based industrial AI for energy and heavy-industry operations, with a flagship platform called Orbital for real-time optimization of refineries and petrochemical facilities.

10-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

🇪🇺 Factory Intelligence & Industrial AI Agents Landscape

Syntetica

syntetica.co

Syntetica develops a green-chemistry, chemical depolymerization process that recycles nylon-rich textile waste into high-purity nylon feedstock for reuse in new materials.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

DeepTech Recycling Startups

TenderFlow GmbH

tenderflow.de

TenderFlow is a B2B SaaS platform that uses AI to help companies find, analyze, and respond to public-sector tenders and government procurement opportunities.

2–10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

Public Procurement Software

Week 28: Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2026

CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites)

cls.fr

CLS is a French, mission-driven company that provides satellite-data-based Earth observation, monitoring, and location solutions for environmental, maritime, mobility, and infrastructure use cases.

1,001-5,000 employees Employees Unknown Stage 1986 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

The AO

ao-med.com

A volunteer-led Ukraine medevac and hospital-support group developing a digital triage system and organizing evacuation, stabilization, and medical transport for wounded soldiers.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage Unknown Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Weak

Confidence: Low

European Defense Startups

Porelio GmbH

porelio.com

Porelio is a Berlin-based deep-tech startup developing patented porous materials for selective purification, including recovery of critical metals from industrial wastewater and removal of persistent pollutants such as PFAS.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

DeepTech Recycling Startups

Together AI

together.ai

Together AI is a full-stack AI cloud platform that helps teams run, fine-tune, train, and deploy open-source models and AI agents with production-grade inference and infrastructure.

201-500 employees Employees Series C Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Financialization of Compute

Week 27: Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2026

Stoa Markets, Inc.

stoaexchange.com

Stoa is a B2B marketplace and data platform for AI hardware, focused on GPU supply discovery, pricing context, and institutional trade execution.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage 2026 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The Financialization of Compute

BidScript Ltd

bidscript.co.uk

BidScript is an AI-native bid management and proposal software platform that helps teams discover opportunities, manage the bid lifecycle, collaborate on responses, and improve win rates.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

Public Procurement Software

EDGX

edgx.space

EDGX builds in-orbit compute products for satellites, including the Sterna edge AI computer and SpaceFeather software stack, to enable real-time onboard processing and reduce downlink dependence.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Zaitra

zaitra.io

Zaitra builds onboard data processing, compression, and AI software for space missions, helping satellites filter, prioritize, and transmit only the most valuable Earth observation data.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

SkyServe

skyserve.ai

SkyServe builds in-space AI and edge-computing software for satellites, enabling onboard GeoAI processing, selective downlink, and near-real-time geospatial insights.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Ubotica Technologies

ubotica.com

Ubotica Technologies builds SPACE:AI, an edge-AI platform that runs onboard satellites to process Earth observation data in orbit and deliver faster, decision-ready intelligence.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2017 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Week 26: Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2026

SpaceKnow

spaceknow.com

SpaceKnow provides AI-powered satellite imagery analysis and geospatial intelligence for monitoring change, detecting objects, and generating actionable insights for defense, construction, economic activity, and other industries.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2013 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

OneSoil

onesoil.ai

OneSoil is a Swiss agritech platform that uses satellite imagery, machine learning, and geospatial analytics to help farmers and agricultural companies monitor fields, detect crop conditions, and make better agronomic and sourcing decisions.

51-200 employees Employees Series A Stage 2017 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

SynMax

synmax.com

SynMax is a Houston-based geospatial data analytics company that uses satellite imagery, machine learning, and AI to deliver actionable intelligence for maritime and energy monitoring, including vessel tracking, oil and gas production intelligence, and infrastructure insights.

51-200 employees Employees Seed Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Kayrros

kayrros.com

Kayrros is an environmental and geospatial intelligence company that turns satellite and other Earth-observation data into asset-level insights for energy, climate, methane, wildfire, and transition-risk monitoring.

51-200 employees Employees Acquired Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Sust Global

sustglobal.com

Sust Global builds geospatial AI software that turns satellite, climate, and other spatial data into actionable climate-risk and asset-level decision intelligence for investors, insurers, and other businesses.

11-50 employees Employees Acquired Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Floodbase

floodbase.com

Floodbase is a geospatial intelligence company that uses satellite imagery, AI, and flood monitoring data to help insurers, governments, and other organizations design, underwrite, and manage parametric flood insurance and flood-risk decisions.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

ZestyAI

zesty.ai

ZestyAI is an AI-powered property and climate risk platform that helps insurers see, price, and act on property risk using geospatial, aerial, and property data.

51-200 employees Employees Series B Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

LiveEO

live-eo.com

LiveEO is a Berlin-based geospatial intelligence company that uses satellite imagery and AI to monitor critical infrastructure and supply chains, turning EO data into actionable risk insights for utilities, rail, pipelines, and deforestation compliance.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

Alisys Robotics

alisysrobotics.com

Alisys Robotics develops cloud-based robotics management, teleoperation, and monitoring solutions for fleets of robots, drones, and other autonomous systems, with a strong focus on field robotics and critical environments.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2011 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

European Defense Startups

Ornn AI, Inc.

ornn.com

Ornn builds financial infrastructure for the AI compute economy, including compute price indices, derivatives/structured products, and market data for pricing, hedging, and settling GPU compute exposure.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Financialization of Compute

Sofar Ocean

sofarocean.com

Sofar Ocean builds an ocean intelligence platform that combines a global sensor network, Spotter buoys, autonomous surface vehicles, and marine weather software to provide real-time ocean and metocean data for scientists, governments, defense, and shipping customers.

51-200 employees (LinkedIn; 106 employees visible) Employees Series B Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

World View Enterprises, Inc. (World View)

worldview.space

World View provides high-altitude balloon remote sensing and persistent observation, combining stratospheric sensing with multi-domain collection and integrated intelligence workflows for defense, government, and commercial missions.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2012 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Near Space Labs

nearspacelabs.com

Near Space Labs provides high-resolution geospatial imagery and Earth observation data captured from stratospheric, balloon-launched autonomous robots for applications such as insurance, government, utilities, forestry, and mapping.

11-50 employees Employees Series B Stage 2017 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Meteomatics

meteomatics.com

Meteomatics is a weather intelligence company that provides high-resolution weather data, forecasts, and APIs, including autonomous weather-drone data collection and 1 km weather modeling for business decision-making.

51-200 employees Employees Series C Stage 2012 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Skyfora

skyfora.com

Skyfora provides hyper-local weather intelligence by turning existing GNSS-enabled telecom infrastructure and its own GNSS sensor network into a real-time atmospheric data platform for forecasting, nowcasting, and weather-risk applications.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

Tomorrow.io

tomorrow.io

Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that combines proprietary satellite sensing, AI forecasting, and weather data APIs to help organizations monitor, predict, and respond to weather-driven risk.

201-500 employees Employees Series D+ Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

Spire Global, Inc.

spire.com

Spire Global is a space-based data and analytics company that operates its own nanosatellite constellation to collect and process Earth observation, maritime, aviation, weather, and other location-linked signals into actionable data products.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage 2012 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

HawkEye 360

he360.com

HawkEye 360 builds a commercial satellite-based signals intelligence platform that detects, geolocates, and characterizes radio-frequency emissions to deliver geospatial intelligence and domain awareness for defense, intelligence, maritime, and GNSS-monitoring use cases.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

Orbital Sidekick

orbitalsidekick.com

Orbital Sidekick provides persistent satellite-based hyperspectral monitoring and analytics to help commercial and government customers detect, monitor, and respond to operational, environmental, and security issues in near real time.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

The Geospatial Data Stack

Wyvern

wyvern.space

Wyvern is a Canadian Earth-observation company that provides high-resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery and related data products for monitoring land, assets, and environmental change.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Pixxel

pixxel.space

Pixxel is a planetary intelligence and space data company that builds and operates hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellites and provides access to the resulting location-based imagery and analytics.

200+ strong global company Employees Series B Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

Synspective

synspective.com

Synspective develops and operates synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and provides SAR data and analytics solutions for uses such as disaster response, national security, and environmental monitoring.

Unknown Employees Public Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Umbra

umbra.space

Umbra is a U.S. space technology company that develops and operates synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and sells high-resolution Earth-observation data and related space systems to government and commercial customers.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Capella Space

capellaspace.com

Capella Space builds and operates synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites that deliver on-demand Earth observation imagery and geospatial intelligence, including high-resolution data that works day or night and through clouds, smoke, and adverse weather.

201-500 employees (LinkedIn) Employees Series C Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

ICEYE

iceye.com

ICEYE builds and operates a large synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) satellite constellation that delivers persistent Earth-observation and intelligence data in any weather, day or night, to customers in defense, insurance, environmental monitoring, and emergency response.

700+ employees Employees Series D+ Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Satellogic

satellogic.com

Satellogic is a vertically integrated geospatial company that builds and operates Earth-observation satellites and provides high-resolution satellite imagery and analytics.

201-500 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2010 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

Vantor Holdings, Inc. (doing business as Vantor)

vantor.com

Vantor is a spatial intelligence company that combines its own imaging satellite constellation, AI software, and geospatial data products to deliver location intelligence, tasking, mapping, and analytics across space, air, and ground.

1,001-5,000 employees Employees Unknown Stage 1992 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

BlackSky Technology Inc.

blacksky.com

BlackSky is a space-based intelligence company that delivers high-frequency satellite imagery, analytics, and monitoring of strategic locations, assets, and events.

201-500 employees Employees Public Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Geospatial Data Stack

Planet Labs PBC

planet.com

Planet Labs PBC is a geospatial data company that operates a large fleet of Earth-imaging satellites and sells subscription access to daily satellite imagery and analytics products.

about 1,700 employees Employees Public Stage 2010 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

The Geospatial Data Stack

LabCycle

labcycle.org

LabCycle develops automated decontamination and recycling technology that turns contaminated single-use laboratory plastics into recycled feedstock and lab consumables for research and healthcare settings.

Unknown Employees Seed Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength

Confidence: Unknown

DeepTech Recycling Startups

Verda

verda.com

Verda is a Helsinki-based AI cloud infrastructure provider that offers on-demand GPU instances, instant and bare-metal clusters, and serverless inference for training and serving AI workloads.

51-200 employees (LinkedIn; 128 employees visible) Employees Unknown Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Financialization of Compute

Acodyne

acodyne.com

Acodyne is a Danish cargo-drone company developing heavy-lift, high-speed unmanned eVTOL aircraft for autonomous logistics missions in civil and defense settings.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Nscale

nscale.com

Nscale is a UK-based AI infrastructure company that builds and operates large-scale GPU cloud platforms, data centers, and the underlying compute stack for training, fine-tuning, and inference.

201-500 employees Employees Series C Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

The Financialization of Compute

Week 25: Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2026

TrophyLab

trophylab.mod.gov.ua

An official Ministry of Defense of Ukraine platform for studying captured enemy equipment and sharing related research, samples, and technical data to help develop defense countermeasures.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage 2026 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Adialante

adialante.com

Adialante is a Y Combinator-backed medical imaging startup building compact, mobile MRI systems that bring diagnostic-quality cancer screening to outpatient clinics.

1 employee (LinkedIn company size; visible employee list suggests a larger small team) Employees Unknown Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

Next Generation Preventive Health Startups

Mutable Tactics

mutabletactics.ai

Mutable Tactics builds AI-powered autonomy and orchestration software that turns mixed fleets of unmanned systems into coordinated teams, especially for contested or communications-denied environments.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

PDKinematics

pdkinematics.com

PDKinematics is a Lithuanian defense deep-tech company developing mechatronic and autonomous systems, including UAV-integrated precision-guided munition and targeting modules.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage Unknown Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Week 24: Jun 08 - Jun 14, 2026

oroForge Inc.

oroforge.com

oroForge is a cloud-based PLM platform for hardware startups and small-to-mid-size hardware teams, with BOM management, change tracking, component data management, document storage, and related engineering operations tools.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage Unknown Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

Cadenza

cadenza-alm.com

Cadenza is an AI-powered intelligence layer for requirements engineering and ALM that connects to tools like Polarion, Codebeamer, Jama Connect, and DOORS Next to automate traceability, compliance analysis, test/requirement generation, and workflow updates. ([cadenza-alm.com](https://cadenza-alm.com/))

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage Unknown Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

Bild

getbild.com

Bild is a cloud PDM/PLM platform for modern hardware teams that helps automate engineering workflows such as version control, BOM management, engineering change management, and supplier collaboration.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

AI Marketplace GmbH (portal0)

portal0.engineering

portal0 is an AI-native requirements management platform that helps engineering teams turn specs, PDFs, emails, and legacy documents into structured, traceable requirements with quality checks and integrations into existing engineering tools.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

CoLab

colabsoftware.com

CoLab is an AI-powered engineering collaboration platform that helps hardware and mechanical engineering teams review designs, connect product data, and make faster product decisions.

160 employees Employees Series B Stage 2017 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

Ketryx

ketryx.com

Ketryx provides AI-native compliance and application lifecycle management software for regulated product teams, especially in medical devices and life sciences, connecting tools like Jira and GitHub into a traceable development workflow.

51-200 employees Employees Series B Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

Cognyx

cognyx.io

Cognyx builds an AI-powered engineering acceleration platform for hardware manufacturers, centered on a universal, collaborative BOM and digital continuity across engineering systems.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

Flow Engineering

flowengineering.com

Flow Engineering builds an AI-native requirements and systems-engineering platform for hardware teams, connecting requirements, design artifacts, CAD, simulation, code, and test in a living system of record.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

AI for Engineering & Product Development: Product Data, PLM & Digital Thread AI

nTop

ntop.com

nTop is a computational design and engineering software company that helps teams generate, optimize, and iterate complex product geometries faster than traditional CAD workflows.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI-Native Design & CAD

Flux

flux.ai

Flux is a browser-based, AI-assisted PCB design platform that helps engineers go from prompts and research to schematics, layout, and manufacturable hardware.

Unknown Employees Series B Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI-Native Design & CAD

Quilter

quilter.ai

Quilter is a physics-driven AI platform that automates PCB layout and verification for electronic hardware design, turning board design into a fast, self-serve workflow.

11-50 employees Employees Series B Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI-Native Design & CAD

Tandem

tandem.inc

Tandem is an AI platform for hardware engineering that captures design intent, requirements, design changes, reviews, and decisions in one system to reduce rework and speed up design and compliance workflows.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI Copilots & Workflow Automation

Foundation EGI

foundationegi.com

Foundation EGI builds an AI platform for engineering and manufacturing teams that automates technical documentation, drawing generation, workstep planning, catalog creation, and technical translation across the product development lifecycle.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI Copilots & Workflow Automation

AllSpice.io

allspice.io

AllSpice is a hardware development platform for electrical engineering teams that combines design reviews, revision control, automation, and an AI agent (DRCY) to help teams collaborate on schematics and PCB layouts. ([learn.allspice.io](https://learn.allspice.io/docs/what-is-allspice))

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI Copilots & Workflow Automation

bananaz

bananaz.ai

bananaz is an AI-powered design management platform for engineering teams that automates design change tracking, validation, and collaboration across product development workflows.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI Copilots & Workflow Automation

CoLab

colabsoftware.com

CoLab is an AI-powered engineering collaboration platform that helps hardware and mechanical engineering teams review designs, connect product data, and make faster product decisions.

160 employees Employees Series B Stage 2017 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

AI for Engineering & Product Development: AI Copilots & Workflow Automation

Week 23: Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2026

Molfar Intelligence (Molfar Limited)

molfar.com

An international strategic intelligence and risk consulting firm that provides OSINT, due diligence, military intelligence, and risk-management services for governments, investors, and businesses.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Infinited Fiber Company

infinitedfiber.com

A Finnish textile-to-textile recycling company that converts cotton-rich textile waste and other cellulose-rich feedstocks into regenerated fiber (Infinna™) for apparel and home textiles. ([investors.infinitedfiber.com](https://investors.infinitedfiber.com/as-an-investment/))

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

DeepTech Recycling Startups

Worn Again Technologies

wornagain.co.uk

Worn Again Technologies develops chemical recycling technology that separates and recovers polyester and cellulose from end-of-life textiles so the materials can be turned back into new products.

11-50 employees (LinkedIn; ~21 employees visible) Employees Unknown Stage 2005 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

DeepTech Recycling Startups

Epoch Biodesign

epochbiodesign.com

Epoch Biodesign develops AI-designed enzymes and industrial biorecycling processes that break down hard-to-recycle plastics and textiles into virgin-quality recycled polymers and chemical feedstocks, starting with nylon 6,6.

45 employees Employees Series A Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

DeepTech Recycling Startups

GR3N SA

gr3n-recycling.com

GR3N is a Swiss chemical-recycling company that uses microwave-assisted depolymerization to turn PET and polyester waste back into virgin-like monomers for new plastics. ([gr3n-recycling.com](https://gr3n-recycling.com/about-us/))

11-50 employees Employees Series B Stage 2011 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

DeepTech Recycling Startups

Ioniqa Technologies B.V.

ioniqa.com

A cleantech spin-off from Eindhoven University of Technology that develops proprietary PET upcycling technology to turn PET waste into virgin-quality raw material for new plastic.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2009 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Weak

Confidence: Low

DeepTech Recycling Startups

HyProMag

hypromag.com

HyProMag is a UK-based rare-earth magnet recycling company developing and commercializing HPMS (Hydrogen Processing of Magnet Scrap) to recover neodymium-iron-boron magnets and reprocess them into new magnets and alloys.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

DeepTech Recycling Startups

Bayshore AI GmbH

bayshore.ai

Bayshore builds an AI foundation for legal and compliance teams, turning regulations, policies, and expert know-how into governed, auditable workflows that can handle requests from intake to decision.

2–10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

Agentic Transaction Infrastructure

Nexla

nexla.com

Nexla is an AI-powered data integration platform that turns data from many sources into governed, production-ready data products for AI agents, analytics, and operations.

51-200 employees Employees Series B Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

Agentic Transaction Infrastructure

Novaquity

novaquity.net

Novaquity is a Japan-focused AI-agent financial intelligence and alternative data platform that structures corporate disclosures, filings, news, and relationship data into API- and MCP-accessible features for analysis and workflow automation.

Unknown Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

Agentic Transaction Infrastructure

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Alchemize

tryalchemize.com

Alchemize is an AI-enabled customs brokerage that automates customs entry filing, regulatory research, and shipment visibility for importers.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2026 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Weak

Confidence: Low

Customs & Trade Compliance Startups

Trava

usetrava.com

Trava is an AI-powered trade compliance platform for U.S. importers that audits customs entries, automates product classification, and flags duty overpayments, underpayments, and filing errors. ([ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trava?utm_source=openai))

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Weak

Confidence: Low

Customs & Trade Compliance Startups

Sapper Intelligence GmbH

sapper-intelligence.com

Sapper Intelligence builds AI-powered sensor systems for remote sensing, exploration, and reconnaissance, focused on detecting hidden objects and threats under soil or vegetation from UAV platforms.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Black Forest Systems

blackforestsystems.com

Black Forest Systems is a Kyiv-based defense technology company that develops vertically integrated autonomous unmanned systems and tactical drone platforms for infantry and special operations forces.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

EGIDE

egide-tech.com

EGIDE is a French defense-tech startup developing affordable, networked interceptor systems and a software-defined platform for air, sea, and ground defense against cheap drones and other unmanned threats.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Calyos

calyos-tm.com

Calyos develops passive two-phase cooling and thermal management systems that help high-heat electronics in sectors like computing, e-mobility, renewable energy, and data centers dissipate heat more efficiently.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2011 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Twin Prime

twinprime.ai

Twin Prime is a frontier AI lab that builds custom AI models and architectures for defense and security, with a focus on sensing, sensor fusion, and national-security use cases.

Unknown Employees Pre Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

SWEBAL (Sweden Ballistics AB)

swebal.com

SWEBAL is a Swedish defense manufacturer building a domestic TNT production facility to supply Europe’s ammunition and explosives supply chain.

2–10 employees Employees Series A Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Aidoptation

aidoptation.com

Aidoptation is a Belgian-American technology company developing high-speed autonomous AI systems for dual-use mobility applications, leveraging race-proven autonomy expertise to build commercial solutions for land, air, and underwater use. ([aidoptation.com](https://www.aidoptation.com/))

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Roboze

roboze.com

Roboze is an Italian advanced manufacturing company that builds industrial 3D printing hardware, software, and materials for mission-critical sectors such as aerospace, defense, energy, and transportation.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

AirHub

airhub.app

AirHub is a Netherlands-based drone operations software company that provides a platform for planning, executing, monitoring, and managing drone missions for public safety, security, and critical infrastructure operators.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Dronamics

dronamics.com

Dronamics develops long-range cargo drones and related logistics operations, aiming to enable faster and more sustainable freight transport.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Stanhope AI

stanhopeai.com

Stanhope AI is a London-based deep-tech startup building active-inference AI software that lets robots and embodied systems make autonomous decisions in the real world, including in drone and robotics use cases.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Occam Industries

occam.industries

Occam Industries is a London-based defense technology company that adds software-only autonomy to existing drone and UAV platforms, using computer vision and navigation software to improve operation in GPS-denied environments.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Rubicon

rubicontechnology.ai

Rubicon develops AI-enabled radar and SAR analytics for persistent ISR, using automated object detection, classification, and terrain labeling to deliver situational awareness in complex and concealed environments.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Weak

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Shotling ApS

c-fpv.com

Shotling develops a short-range counter-UAS system: an electrically driven rotary-style gun intended to defeat FPV drones and loitering munitions with point-defense fire.

2 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Distance Technologies

distance.tech

Distance Technologies develops glasses-free mixed-reality/XR display technology that turns transparent surfaces such as windshields into immersive, AI-enhanced interfaces for automotive, aerospace, and defense applications.

51-200 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

NanoXplore

nanoxplore.com

NanoXplore is a French fabless semiconductor company that designs radiation-hardened FPGA and SoC FPGA components for high-reliability applications in space, defense, and avionics.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2010 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Shield Space

shieldspace.co.uk

Shield Space is a UK defense-tech company building orbital autonomy and space-security systems for small satellites, with a focus on autonomous guidance, rendezvous, and satellite protection in contested environments.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Destinus

destinus.com

Destinus is a European defense and aerospace company that designs and manufactures autonomous flight systems, including drones, strike-effectors, counter-drone systems, and other unmanned platforms for civil and defense use.

501-1,000 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Marble Imaging

marble-imaging.de

Marble Imaging is a German NewSpace company building a commercial constellation of very high-resolution Earth observation satellites and analytics for time-critical applications.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

StirlingX

stirlingx.io

StirlingX is a UK-based drone operations and data intelligence company that uses autonomous drones, resilient communications, and AI-driven analytics to turn aerial and sensor data into actionable insights for critical infrastructure, defence, and commercial customers.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

ICEYE

iceye.com

700+ employees Employees Series D+ Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Unseenlabs

unseenlabs.com

Unseenlabs is a space-based RF intelligence company that detects and geolocates radio signals emitted by ships to deliver maritime surveillance, dark-vessel detection, and situational awareness data.

51-200 employees Employees Series C Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Circus Defence SE

circus-defence.ai

Circus Defence SE is a German AI-robotics company building autonomous military sustainment systems, including AI-powered food and logistics robots for defense environments.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

KNL

knl.fi

KNL is a Finnish technology company that builds beyond-line-of-sight, software-defined HF radio and secure communications systems for military and security users.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2011 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Watchbird AS

watchbird.no

Norwegian medtech/defense-tech company developing wearable CBRN threat sensors and low-burden respiratory protection gear, including the SAFEgaiter, for military and first-responder use.

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Ailand Systems

ailandsystems.com

Ailand Systems develops smart autonomous drones and sensor systems for humanitarian demining and explosive-hazard detection, with a flagship drone platform (Spinner/ST1) used to find landmines and other explosive threats faster than manual inspection.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Dropla Tech

dropla.tech

AI- and robotics-based demining and explosive threat detection company that builds autonomous systems and software for detecting, classifying, and neutralizing UXO and other explosive hazards. ([dropla.tech](https://dropla.tech/?utm_source=openai))

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

RTsys Group

rtsys.com

RTsys Group develops underwater acoustics, autonomous robotics, and marine sensing systems for defense, research, and maritime applications, including mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2010 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

FindMine gGmbH

findmine.org

FindMine develops UAS-based humanitarian demining systems, including ground-penetrating synthetic aperture radar (GPSAR), to detect mines and unexploded ordnance from the air.

Small team (8 named members observed on team page) Employees Unknown Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Mine Kafon

minekafon.org

Mine Kafon develops humanitarian demining technology, including drone-based mapping and detection systems designed to find landmines, explosive remnants of war, and unexploded ordnance more safely and cost-effectively than traditional methods.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2013 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

European Defense Startups

BROSWARM

broswarm.com

BROSWARM builds an autonomous airborne landmine and subsurface threat detection platform using a lightweight synthetic aperture radar payload, AI-based reconstruction, and drone integration.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

ZeroPhase GmbH

zerophase.de

ZeroPhase develops software-defined, resilient data-link and communication systems that keep unmanned systems connected and in control in challenging environments.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Acrontis

acrontis.com

Acrontis is a Kyiv-based defense-tech software company building drone autopilot and resilient video-transmission systems for UAV control.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Blue Arrow

bluearrow.co

Blue Arrow is a Ukrainian-American defense technology startup building drone autonomy, navigation, target-tracking, and fleet-command software for GPS- and communications-denied environments.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Osiris AI

osirisai.com

Osiris AI is a Ukrainian deep-tech company building OsirisOS, a modular operating system and app ecosystem for uncrewed vehicles and drones, with onboard autonomy, mission control, edge AI, and hardware-agnostic integration. ([osirisai.com](https://osirisai.com/?utm_source=openai))

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage Unknown Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

NORDA Dynamics

norda.tech

NORDA Dynamics develops autonomous UAV/drone control and stabilization software for combat environments, especially where GPS and normal communications are unavailable.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

M-FLY

m-fly.org

M-FLY develops ITAR-free, high-precision stabilized gimbals and laser guidance/electro-optical payloads for UAVs and other drone platforms, with dual-use military and civilian applications.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Teletactica

teletactica.com

Teletactica is a deep-tech defense company that develops secure, jamming-resistant communication systems and hardware for unmanned and autonomous platforms, including drones and robotics.

51-200 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

NestAI

nestai.com

NestAI develops physical AI systems for defence and critical infrastructure, combining sensing, autonomy, and command capabilities for unmanned systems.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

LANDROVAL

landroval.com

LANDROVAL is a French deep-tech defense startup building sovereign ISR / perception payloads and software for UAVs, including stabilized EO/IR gimbals, multi-sensor fusion, and GNSS-denied navigation for drone integration. ([landroval.com](https://landroval.com/company?utm_source=openai))

2-10 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Lendurai OÜ

lendurai.com

Lendurai develops computer-vision and machine-learning systems that let drones operate without GNSS satellite navigation or radio control, targeting defense and public-sector use cases.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Airvolute

airvolute.com

Airvolute develops AI-driven autonomous unmanned systems and drone-enabling hardware/software, including an open-architecture autopilot platform, UAV platforms, and payload adapters.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Spleenlab GmbH

spleenlab.ai

Spleenlab builds safety-focused AI perception and autonomy software for autonomous systems, including drones, autonomous vehicles, and air cabs, with products for sensor fusion, obstacle detection, SLAM, navigation, and precision landing.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Falcons

falcons.com.ua

Falcons is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian defense technology company that develops software and hardware for electronic intelligence and radio-direction-finding systems, including its ETER platform.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Sky Spy

skyspy.ai

Sky Spy develops compact, battle-tested SIGINT systems and drone-mounted RF intelligence payloads that detect, classify, and geolocate hostile emitters in contested environments.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Frankenburg Technologies OÜ

frankenburg.tech

Frankenburg Technologies develops affordable, mass-manufacturable missile systems and AI-enabled counter-drone interceptors for air defense and critical infrastructure protection.

51-200 employees Employees Series A Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

TYTAN Technologies

tytan-technologies.com

Munich-based TYTAN Technologies is a deep-tech defense company building autonomous, AI-powered counter-drone / air-defense interceptor systems for European armed forces and critical infrastructure. ([tytan-technologies.com](https://www.tytan-technologies.com/blog-posts/tytan-raises-30-mio))

51-200 employees Employees Series A Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Cambridge Aerospace

cambridgeaerospace.com

Cambridge Aerospace is a UK defense-tech company developing low-cost air-defense interceptors, including Skyhammer and Starhammer, to counter drones and cruise missiles.

51-200 employees Employees Series A Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

MADDOS (AP-FLYER Sp. z o.o.)

maddos.com

MADDOS is the anti-drone / counter-UAS brand of AP-FLYER, offering multi-sensor drone detection, identification, and neutralization systems, plus related UAV and security technologies.

11–50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2007 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Alta Ares

altaares.com

Alta Ares is a French deeptech defense startup that develops AI-powered drone recognition, surveillance, and counter-UAS systems, including interceptor drones and real-time detection software.

51-200 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

DefSecIntel Solutions OÜ

defsecintel.com

DefSecIntel develops AI-assisted surveillance, command-and-control, and counter-UAS systems, including autonomous mobile surveillance platforms and the EIRSHIELD ultra-short-range air defense system.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Nordic Air Defence

nordicairdefence.com

Swedish defense technology startup building a sovereign, software-defined air defense platform; its first C-UAS product is the Kreuger 100 interceptor, designed for scalable and cost-effective drone defense. ([nordicairdefence.com](https://www.nordicairdefence.com/about))

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

OpenWorks Engineering Ltd

openworksengineering.com

UK-based defense technology company that develops autonomous optical sensor, tracking, and drone-capture systems for counter-UAS, air defense, and surveillance applications.

100+ employees Employees Unknown Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Roark Aerospace (Ro-ark Aerospace Limited)

roark-aerospace.com

Roark Aerospace develops autonomous defense systems, including drone detection, counter-UAS effectors, and sensor-driven situational-awareness tools for defense and security customers.

Unknown Employees Series B Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

CERBAIR

cerbair.com

CERBAIR is a French counter-UAS company that develops drone detection, identification, and neutralization systems using radio-frequency analysis and jamming technologies.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

European Defense Startups

MyDefence

mydefence.com

MyDefence is a Danish defense technology company that develops counter-UAS (counter-drone) systems, including RF-based drone detection and jamming solutions for military, border, airport, and critical-infrastructure protection.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2013 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

VYRIY Drone

vyriy.com

Ukrainian military-tech company that develops and manufactures FPV drones, kamikaze drones, fixed-wing drones, and drone-mounted signal relays for frontline use.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Orbotix Industries

orbotix.tech

Orbotix Industries is a European defense technology company building AI-powered autonomous drone systems for battlefield sensing, target acquisition, and one-way attack/swarming missions.

11-50 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

EOS Technologie

eos-technologie.com

French defense drone manufacturer that designs and produces fixed-wing UAVs and loitering munitions for ISR/ISTAR and strike missions, including the Veloce 330 and Rodeur 330.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2018 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Twentyfour Industries

twentyfour.industries

Twentyfour Industries designs, manufactures, and deploys cost-efficient European-made drones for defense and allied operators, with end-to-end support from product development to training and lifecycle management.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Buntar Aerospace Ltd.

buntar.com

Ukrainian defense technology company building unmanned aerial systems and mission software for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), including EW-resilient VTOL drones and a UAV control/copilot platform.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Frontline Robotics

frontline-robotics.tech

Frontline Robotics is a Ukrainian defense technology company that develops and manufactures robotic systems for battlefield logistics, reconnaissance, and remote weapon operation.

51-200 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Ukrspecsystems

ukrspecsystems.com

Ukrainian developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems, ISR gimbals, and related UAV components, with products used by Ukrainian military and security forces.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Hard Cat Drones

(no public website found; LinkedIn page: https://linkedin.com/company/hard-cat)

Ukrainian defense-tech startup building unmanned riverine and maritime interceptor drones for missions such as reconnaissance, mine detection, patrol, and strike support.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

European Defense Startups

Milrem Robotics

milremrobotics.com

Milrem Robotics is an Estonia-based developer of robotics and autonomous systems, specializing in unmanned ground vehicles and related autonomy software for defense and dual-use applications.

321 employees visible (LinkedIn) Employees Unknown Stage 2013 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Skyeton

skyeton.com

Skyeton is a Ukrainian-born manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), best known for the Raybird platform and related services for reconnaissance, targeting, border control, and industrial inspection.

51-200 employees Employees Seed Stage 2006 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

RIFT

rift.aero

RIFT is a French deep-tech company that provides on-demand aerial intelligence through long-range VTOL UAVs, autonomous launch stations, and mission software for persistent remote surveillance. ([rift.aero](https://rift.aero/))

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

ARX Robotics

arx-robotics.com

ARX Robotics is a German defense-tech company building autonomous unmanned ground vehicles and AI-powered software to modernize and connect military land platforms.

201-500 employees Employees Series A Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Granta Autonomy

grantaautonomy.com

Granta Autonomy is a Lithuanian defense engineering company that develops and produces autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), gimbals, and related components for ISTAR, search and rescue, and loitering munitions missions.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Harmattan AI

harmattan.ai

Harmattan AI is a French defense technology company that develops autonomous, AI-enabled defense systems including ISR drones, counter-UAS, electronic warfare, and mission-system software.

51-200 employees Employees Series B Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

SEABER

seaber.fr

SEABER designs and manufactures micro-autonomous underwater vehicles (micro-AUVs) for oceanographic, industrial, and defense missions, including survey, mine countermeasures, coast guard, and ASW training use cases.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Tencore LLC

tencore.com.ua

Ukrainian defense-tech company that develops and manufactures unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and other ground robotic platforms for battlefield logistics, evacuation, remote fire support, and engineering tasks.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Monopulse ApS

monopulse.eu

Monopulse ApS is a Denmark-based defense-technology company that develops and manufactures unmanned aerial systems (UAVs) and related software for government, law enforcement, and military users, including tactical drones for surveillance, artillery support, topographic mapping, and ISR. ([monopulse.eu](https://www.monopulse.eu/))

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Roboneers

roboneers.net

Ukrainian engineering company that designs and manufactures multi-domain unmanned defense systems, including ground robots (UGVs), drones (UAVs), remote weapon stations, and related control/software systems.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

KrattWorks

krattworks.com

KrattWorks builds jamming-resistant ISR drones and aerial target UAVs for defense, rescue, and frontline situational awareness.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2019 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Kraken Technology Group

krakentechnology.com

Kraken Technology Group designs and manufactures high-performance, dual-use maritime platforms and uncrewed surface vessels for defense and civilian use.

51-200 employees Employees Seed Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Elistair

elistair.com

Elistair designs and manufactures tethered drone systems for persistent surveillance, reconnaissance, and tactical communications for defense, public safety, and security users.

51-200 employees Employees Series B Stage 2014 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Threod Systems AS

threod.com

Estonian defense technology company that develops and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), electro-optical ISR/ISTAR payloads, and aircraft launcher systems for defense and other operational uses. ([threod.com](https://www.threod.com/))

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2012 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Evolve Dynamics

evolvedynamics.com

Evolve Dynamics designs and manufactures uncrewed aerial systems (drones) and related software for defense, emergency response, and critical infrastructure missions.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Sky-Watch A/S

sky-watch.com

Sky-Watch develops and manufactures advanced fixed-wing mini-UAS and ISR drone systems for defense, including the RQ-35 Heidrun and Drone Manager platform, with autonomous and GNSS-denied mission capabilities. ([sky-watch.com](https://sky-watch.com/who-we-are/))

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2009 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

TEKEVER

tekever.com

TEKEVER is a Portuguese aerospace and defence technology company that develops AI-driven autonomous systems, including unmanned aerial systems (UAS), robotics, sensing, and related dual-use defence capabilities.

1,001-5,000 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2001 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Lysk

lysk.ai

Lysk is a European defense software startup building modern software tailored for hostile environments.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2025 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Low

European Defense Startups

Unbound Autonomy

unboundautonomy.com

Unbound Autonomy builds AI-powered wearable and command software for tactical teams, focused on real-time situational awareness, blue-force tracking, and critical-sound detection on the battlefield.

2-10 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

SensusQ

sensusq.com

SensusQ is an Estonian defense-tech company that builds AI-enabled intelligence management and decision-support software that fuses data from sources like UAVs, cyber events, sensors, and open-source feeds into a real-time common intelligence picture. ([investinestonia.com](https://investinestonia.com/estonian-sensusq-secures-e3-8m-for-ai-driven-defencetech/))

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2020 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Strong

Confidence: High

European Defense Startups

Adarga

adarga.ai

Adarga is a UK-based AI software company that builds a multidomain data fusion and information-intelligence platform to help defense, security, and resilience organizations turn large volumes of complex data into better decisions.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2016 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Periphery

periphery.security

Periphery builds embedded AI threat management and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure and defense, with a focus on securing cyber-physical and embedded systems.

2-10 employees Employees Pre Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Hadean

hadean.com

Hadean is a London-based spatial computing and AI software company that builds synthetic environments, simulation, and decision-support platforms for defense and other large-scale mission-critical applications.

51-200 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2015 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Vegvisir

vegvisir.ee

Vegvisir is an Estonian-Croatian defense technology startup that builds mixed-reality, ultra-low-latency situational awareness and command-and-control systems for armored vehicles, unmanned platforms, and battlefield operations.

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Project Q GmbH

project-q.ai

Project Q builds Hydris, an API-first, open-source coordination layer for sensors, assets, and mission systems, enabling real-time track correlation, entity-state management, and interoperability across defense networks.

11–50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2024 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Slight

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Delian Alliance Industries

delian.ai

Delian Alliance Industries builds autonomous defense systems that fuse AI, software, sensors, electronic warfare, and rapid manufacturing to detect, track, and respond to threats across land, air, and sea.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Arondite

arondite.com

Arondite is a UK-based defense software company building AI-enabled command-and-control and interoperability software that connects autonomous systems, sensors, and crewed assets for faster mission decision-making.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Intelic

intelic.ai

Intelic builds mission-oriented AI software for robotics and unmanned systems, including a shared command-and-control layer called Nexus for coordinating multi-vendor drone and robot operations.

51-200 employees Employees Series A Stage 2021 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

European Defense Startups

Tequipy

tequipy.com

Tequipy is a global IT equipment lifecycle platform that helps companies buy, pre-configure, service, retrieve, store, redeploy, and resell employee devices across 180+ countries.

11-50 employees Employees Seed Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

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Minerva

useminerva.com

Minerva is an AI-powered public procurement platform that finds relevant public tenders, analyzes bid documentation, tracks changes, and helps teams prepare competitive offers. ([useminerva.com](https://www.useminerva.com/?utm_source=openai))

11-50 employees Employees Unknown Stage 2023 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

Public Procurement Software

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Mantle8

mantle8.com

Mantle8 develops geoscience and multiphysics imaging technology to locate and evaluate naturally occurring subsurface hydrogen reservoirs, with the goal of making natural hydrogen commercially viable.

11-50 employees Employees Series A Stage 2022 Founded

Trajectory Signals Strength Moderate

Confidence: Medium

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