Top 9 Military Situational Awareness startups

Updated: Feb 12, 2026
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These companies develop ISR weapon systems that play the role of eyes and ears at the battlefield.
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Farsight Vision
Country: Ukraine | Funding: €7.8M
Farsight Vision develops geospatial intelligence platform that connects drone pilots and video users for analytics and situational awareness using 3D models. The system integrates data from the battlefield and unmanned platforms in real time (creating an alternative to satellite surveillance). Thus, it creates an "integration layer" for planning and executing missions using UAVs and UGVs. The company's goal is to create a "continuously updated world model" that both humans and autonomous systems can rely on to understand terrain, infrastructure and changing conditions.
2
Hanwha Systems
Country: South Korea | Funding: $251M
Hanwha Systems is an aerospace company providing defense electronics and smart ICT solutions.
3
Camero
Country: Israel | Funding: $23M
Camero develops and markets radar-based imaging systems for government and commercial customers.
4
Modern Intelligence
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Modern Intelligence is a technology company using proprietary advances in information and complexity theory to build one AI for defense.
5
Deepsafety
Country: Germany | Funding: €1M
Deepsafety makes LiDAR sensors, providing the most accurate understanding of the environment for defense.
6
Safe Pro Group
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
Vegvisir
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
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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Rivet
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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