Top Defense Startups in 2024

Obviant is a data intelligence platform to simplify defense acquisition & GTM. Our starting point is making it easier to havigate connections between budget, programs, and the people who own them in the DoD; plus tracking real-time happenings around all of it. Our mission is to get better technology into the mission sets that need it the most. If you’re excited about having an impact on the future of defense, we’re probably for you.

CX2 is a next-generation defense technology company, headquartered in El Segundo, California. Our mission is to secure spectrum dominance for the United States and our allies by building AI-enabled hardware and software platforms to detect, disrupt and defend the electromagnetic spectrum across land, air, sea and space. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs with backgrounds from Meta, SpaceX, Epirus and a16z, we are backed by the leading venture investors in the defense ecosystem.

Field trips, demonstrations, and direct experiences foster significantly higher engagement and retention than worksheets, lectures, and movies, but they can be hard to integrate into your units. Holos makes it as easy as possible to create your own immersive 3D learning experiences for students to view right in your classroom, bringing the power of immersive hands-on learning with the simplicity of a drag-and-drop interface. In VR, you lay out your content. It’s an experience similar to putting a PowerPoint presentation together, except you’re viewing and editing your content in full 3D space. The Holos VR workspace for teachers is equipped with a set of friendly tools that enable them to mix content together to create dioramas and immersive 3D lessons for their students with drag-and-drop simplicity. In AR, students can access the shoebox dioramas that you have put together and place them into the real world, onto a table or their desk with an iPad.

Highly accurate inertial navigation systems and services including INS, MEMS and acoustics, integrated by our customers into a range of autonomous vehicles, geospacial mapping solutions, surveying products, asset tracking solutions and more.

Mach9 builds location intelligence software to help civil engineering and government customers analyze massive amounts of geospatial sensor data. We've been working on software automation for common surveying workflows and are driven to bring perception software from self-driving to industries that need it today. Our team spun out of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and previously worked at Tesla Autopilot, SpaceX GNC, and Apple Performance Engineering. We went through YC last summer, raised a seed round last December, and have been rapidly growing our team.

We, lvlAlpha is an ISO 13485 Medical Device QMS certified, Early Stage, Defence Tech Startup building Wearable devices for Defence Tri-Forces, Industry and Public Health. Our Vision is to “Accelerate the Growth of Technology to Mitigate High Risk Environments and improving Human Existence.” We are supported and based in Niti Aayog backed Atal Incubation Centre (AIC), Mumbai and supported in acceleration by Department of Science and Technology(DST) Backed TBI,India. We are supported in Grant by Ministry of Electronics and Information TechnologY (MeitY), India Entrepreneurship Grant 2020 and SASACT Grant 2020. We are also funded by IOCL Startup Fund Round III. We are currently rolling out Wrist-worn Health and Location Tracker and Trauma Monitoring Software for Defence Forces. Our Affiliations : AIC-NMIMS, KIIT-TBI, CII-Pune, MCCIA, IOCL Venture Capital : Indian Oil Startup Fund Round III Defence : defexpo.gov.in/assets/PDF/Book 1 MSME.pdf Ministry of Electronics and Information TechnologY (MeitY), India Entrepreneurship Grant 2020 MeitY, SASACT Grant 2020 CII - West-Tech 2019, ZIP Start 2020 Compendium of Innovation 2020 ciihive.in/doc/11974eCompendium Innovations.pdf Startup Visa, Govt. of Canada

Othram combines laboratory science, software, and process, to build a better and more robust infrastructure for an equitable criminal justice system. Othram's technology enables local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies across the United States and internationally, to break through previously impenetrable forensic DNA barriers and close previously unsolvable cases.