Top 12 Military Sensor startups

Updated: May 13, 2026
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Prisma Photonics
Country: Israel | Funding: $80M
Prisma Photonics keeps the most critical large-scale infrastructure running with its next-generation optical fiber sensing solutions.
2
Gecko Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $347.1M
Gecko Robotics produces robots and sensors for inspecting large military objects. The company has signed a multi-year contract with the US Navy to monitor the state and performance of installations and ships in the US Pacific Fleet. The company's software helps the organization monitor the condition of installations and recommend maintenance, preventing problems before they occur and reducing maintenance time and costs. Gecko robots can climb, crawl, swim, and fly to build first-order data layers on the physical world. The company then combines these data with the predictive power of AI into a single source of truth for the physical world.
3
Tenna
Country: USA | Funding: $13.5M
Tenna is redefining electromagnetic spectrum management with cutting-edge RF Spectrum Intelligence solutions for defense and critical mobility sectors. Its software platform enables real-time monitoring, classification and geolocation of radio-frequency interferences, enabling operations to proactively mitigate interference risks and ensure seamless wireless connectivity.
4
Sapient Perception
Country: Denmark | Funding: €2M
Sapient Perception develops advanced AI-powered perception systems for UAVs promising to give drones a much wider field of view without sacrificing detail and transform visual data into actionable intelligence.
5
Dominion Dynamics
Country: Canada | Funding: CA$26M
Dominion Dynamics builds platforms that integrate sensor data and autonomous assets for real-time command and control.
6
M-Fly
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $2.7M
M-Fly has a powerful camera stabilizer for reconnaissance air drones. The gimbal produces a stable picture even when the drone operates at high speeds or in bad weather and without wasting power. Based on such data, commanders plan attacks, praise decisions and reprimand people. It is already being tested on Ukrainian reconnaissance drones.
7
Harmattan AI
Country: France | Funding: $242M
Harmattan AI develops software for autonomous drone control and calls itself "the European equivalent of Anduril." It produces its own autonomous small aerial drones for operator training, battlefield reconnaissance and situational awareness (using synthetic aperture radar) and rapid interception of enemy 1-2 wing UAVs. The company has a contract with Dassault Aviation, the French manufacturer of the Rafale fighter jet, to develop an AI autopilot and a contract with NATO to supply small AI-enabled drones. It also collaborates with the Ukrainian drone manufacturer Skyeton to test the drones in combat conditions.
8
SandboxAQ
Country: USA | Funding: $975M
SandboxAQ develops several AI-based technologies for the military industry, including the AQtive Guard platform for managing cryptography and non-human-based identification, which provides cybersecurity for national IT infrastructure. The company also creates AQNav quantum devices for the Defense Innovation Unit for assured positioning, navigation and timing (APNT). QNav provides a jam-resistant, all-weather, terrain-independent, passive solution in situations where GPS signals are unavailable, jammed or spoofed. SandboxAQ is also conducting a joint battery analysis program with the US Army.
9
Skylark Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $7.5M
Skylark creates AI for physical applications, aiming to create a superintelligence that can learn and act in the real world. The company is developing the KEPLER edge platform for collecting data from optical, thermal, radar and unmanned sensors and rapidly recognizing threats, providing improved situational awareness for military operations. Its second platform, TURING, is designed for intelligence agencies. It can analyze data from linguistic and visual sources to recognize information threats. Skylark also produces compact industrial computing units for edge computing and solar-powered, trailer-mounted Scout AI towers for real-time surveillance using multiple sensors. They integrate LiDAR, radar, audio, thermal, visible light sensors with on-device adaptive artificial intelligence and provide real-time perimeter monitoring, threat detection and autonomous alerting.
10
Theseus
Country: USA | Funding: $4.8M
Theseus is a defence and military technology company that offers a GPS drone built with a visual navigation system.
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Intellisense Systems
Country: USA
Intellisense Systems develops and manufactures advanced technologies that modernize Armed Forces through defense electronics and environmental monitoring systems.
12
R2 Wireless
Country: Israel
R2 Wireless offers low-cost RF Situation Awareness and Terrain Dominance capabilities to safeguard key facilities against intrusions.
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