January Defense Tech Review

2025 Defense Tech market report released, $44.2M in new funding, launch of autonomous shore to shore resupply company, and 1 new company added to Emerging Defense tracking

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Emerging Defense 2025 Market Report

After a lot of work, we launched the 2025 Emerging Defense Market report! It contains the most comprehensive funding breakdown of the defense tech market to date (sector, investment stage, overall activity, and more!).

Access it here!

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Bulwark Dynamics rendering

Company Launches

1. Bulwark:

   1. Building: Autonomous shore to shore resupply ships for operations in contested environments

   2. Funding: They raised a undisclosed pre-seed round in September 2025.

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Grid Aero unmanned drone render

Funding Rounds

1. Titan Dynamics

   1. Building: Fixed wing, low cost, 3D printed VTOL drones

   2. Raised: $9M Series A backed by Long Journey, Tamarack Global, NVTBL, Epakon Capital, Discipulus Ventures, HF0 Residency, Cherubic Ventures

2. Grid Aero

   1. Building: Autonomous cargo drones for contested logistics

   2. Raised: $20M Series A led by Bison Ventures & Geodesic Capital with participation from Ubiquity Ventures, Stony Lonesome Group, Alumni Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, Commonweal Ventures

3. Dominion Dynamics

   1. Building: A Canadian defense prime, focused on Arctic security

   2. Raised: $15.2M Seed led by Georgian with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners & British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)

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New Companies Added to Emerging Defense

1. Arctus Aerospace:

   1. Building: Unmanned medium altitude long endurance aerial vehicles. Integrated flight systems and combat capable UAVs with payloads ranging from 100 to 250 kg

   2. Raised: $2.6M a Pre-Seed in November 2025 led by VersionOne Ventures, joined by South Park Commons, gradCapital, and angels including Balaji Srinivasan

Thanks for reading!

— Emerging Defense Team (Scripps)