Top 13 Military Decision Support startups

Oct 26, 2025 | By Bruce Makowsky

These startups develop decision support software for military mission planning, battlefield scenario analysis and real-time resource allocation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3B
Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud. Palantir revolutionizes how organizations build and deploy AI/ML by combining the enterprise data foundation with end-to-end AI/ML deployment infrastructure.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €1.4B
Helsing is a new type of defence AI company. We believe that software, in particular artificial intelligence, will be the key to protecting our democracies. It employs AI and software to enable faster and more accurate decision-making, and the utilisation of data at the tactical, operational, and strategic level.
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Country: UK | Funding: $853.9M
Improbable Defence develops training software for national security, synthetic environments for defence simulations.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $87M
Developer of products for the security industry. It develops AI-based solutions for counter-terrorism missions tackling national security problems. It also uses natural language processing and caters mainly to the defense and intelligence industries.
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Country: USA | Funding: $54M
TurbineOne designs a frontline perceptions system for warfighters. It utilizes machine learning (ML) to offer data-driven insights on battlefields. This includes threat detection, target identification, AI-based video analysis, and classification of killer robots.
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Country: USA | Funding: $41.9M
Provider of intelligent systems for the military. It offers intelligent systems for getting real-time updates in isolated areas with no updates from the headquarters.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $35.9M
Avalon Holographics creates holographics for battlespace visualizations. Its Light Field Displays (LFDs) paint an accurate, detailed 3D picture of the battlespace, including all assets and targets within range.
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Country: Austria | Funding: $35M
blackshark.ai geospatial platform extracts insights about the planet’s infrastructure from current satellite and aerial imagery via machine learning at global scale. Missing attributes are enriched by AI to provide a photorealistic, geo-typical, or asset specific digital twin.
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Country: India | Funding: $6.3M
AjnaLens’ military systems equipped with AI and AR technology enhances human decision-making capabilities and performance, reinforcing mission effectiveness.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.3M
Bazze is trusted partner of U.S. and U.K. defense agencies that sells Access To Data Locating People At Foreign Military Bases And Embassies
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Country: Canada | Funding: $2.8M
CarteNav Solutions provides maximize the performance and decision-making capabilities of defence, security and industry.
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Country: Estonia | Funding: €300K
C2Grid uses AI to turn video into 3D situational awareness, boosting decision-making and safety in military and civilian operations.
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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