Top 9 Military Situational Awareness startups

Sep 19, 2025 | By Bruce Makowsky

These companies develop ISR weapon systems that play the role of eyes and ears at the battlefield.
1
Country: South Korea | Funding: $251M
Hanwha Systems is an aerospace company providing defense electronics and smart ICT solutions.
2
Country: Israel | Funding: $23M
Camero develops and markets radar-based imaging systems for government and commercial customers.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Modern Intelligence is a technology company using proprietary advances in information and complexity theory to build one AI for defense.
4
Country: Germany | Funding: €1M
Deepsafety makes LiDAR sensors, providing the most accurate understanding of the environment for defense.
5
Country: Ukraine | Funding: €600K
FarsightVision is a platform that connects drone pilots and footage consumers for analytics and situational awareness via 3D models.
6
Country: USA
Safe Pro Group has strategically acquired and assembled best-of-breed Drone services, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ballistic protection manufacturing companies enabling it to provide the industry’s first turnkey solution for next generation demining.
7
Country: Estonia
Vegvisir is an Mixed Reality Situational Awareness System (XRSAS) that provides personnel of an armoured vehicle a visual understanding of the immediate surroundings and also the areas of interest further away. In simple terms, we enable the see-through-the-wall capability.
8
Country: Israel
R2 Wireless offers low-cost RF Situation Awareness and Terrain Dominance capabilities to safeguard key facilities against intrusions.
9
Country: USA
Rivet is building AI-enabled soldier glasses designed to give frontline troops an AI-enabled view of the battlefield and voice command over drone swarm
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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