Top 37 Counter-Drone Military startups

Oct 05, 2025 | By Bruce Makowsky

These companies develop drone detection radars, electronic jamming systems, kinetic interceptors, AI-powered threat analysis, portable anti-drone missile systems, etc.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10M
Aurelius Systems is a defense technology company pioneering the future of defense with the development of edge-deployed.
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Country: USA | Funding: $6.2B
Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Provider of AI-based surveillance and reconnaissance solutions for the defense sector. It offers an autonomous operational platform based on sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to monitor and control warfare assets.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1B
CACI provides technology that enables C4ISR superiority for air, ground, sea, space, and cyber domains. Our software defined electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and counter-unmanned aircraft technologies (C-UAS) provide protection and deliver precision effects against any adversary.
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Country: USA | Funding: $723.2M
BlueHalo is the transformation of modern warfare in defense and space. Acquired by AeroVironment
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Country: USA | Funding: $537.6M
Provider of AI-powered counter UAV systems. It offers a software-defined electromagnetic pulse system for defence and public safety applications. It has an in-built high-power microwave beam emitter to detect and disable neutralize single drones or entire swarms even in crowded spaces. It also offers precision detection systems to detect unauthorized vessels in waterways.
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Country: USA | Funding: $130.9M
Hidden Level provides airspace monitoring and drone detection technologies for infrastructure and address national security threats.
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Country: USA | Funding: $127.9M
Provider of AI-based smart airspace security solutions. It comprises an array of RF sensors to detect, identify, and locate various drones in real-time, based on parameters, such as noise, shape, & movement patterns. It has a machine learning-based drone library to automate the protection of airspaces against unauthorized drones.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $124.7M
Airobotics provides an end-to-end, fully automatic solution for collecting aerial data and gaining invaluable insights.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $65M
D-Fend Solutions is the leading counter-drone cyber-takeover technology provider, enabling full control, safety, & continuity.
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Country: USA | Funding: $49.7M
Fortem Technologies develops radar systems for detecting airborne objects and counter UAV systems for commercial and military applications. Its DroneHunter is an autonomous perimeter detection (and protection) solution, designed to detect, classify, and secure against rogue drones. On detecting an intruder drone, it uses its AI-directed detection, tracking, and guidance for remediating the air threat at a standoff distance, with no collateral damage.
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Country: Taiwan | Funding: $45M
Tron Future Tech builds radar-based anti-drone systems with detection, jamming, and AI control for defense and infrastructure use.
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Country: USA | Funding: $42M
Allen Control Systems is a defense technology firm for a new era of drone warfare.
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Country: India | Funding: $31.2M
BBBS Anti-Drone Defense System have the state of the art technology to detect and nullify the commercially available off the shelf (COTS) drones such as DJI Mavic, Phantom etc.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25M
Airspace provides a drone detection and disabling system. It performs multi-dimensional risk analysis by leveraging Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and advanced robotics with situational and historic data.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $10.3M
Regulus Cyber is a software technology company that provides smart sensor security services.
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Country: USA | Funding: $7M
ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
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Country: Sweden | Funding: $4.3M
NAD maintains democratic values, which are essential to both societal stability and human advancement in a world that is changing quickly.
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Country: UK | Funding: $1.92M
Vizgard provides AI-based object tracking for unmanned and counter-unmanned systems. This enables automatic visual confirmation and tracking threats such as unauthorized drones.
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Country: UK | Funding: $1.7M
Supporting a sustainable future where drones change the way we view, interact with, and move around our world.
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Country: India | Funding: $1M
Zebu designs and develops next-generation software and hardware technologies.
Editor: Bruce Makowsky
Bruce Makowsky has covered military, cyber and IT news since 2009, with a focus on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operations, acquisition programs and budgets. In particular he worked for Inside Defense. Bruce holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Boston University. Bruce is also an award-winning photographer, renowned for his captivating images that have earned him numerous accolades and widespread recognition in the photography community. You can contact Bruce at makowsky(at)militarystartups(dot)com