Havoc’s technology enables autonomy for military and commercial-grade systems across domains. | Source: Havoc
HavocAI Inc. this week said it has obtained $100 million in Series A financing. The latest round brings the total funding raised by Havoc to date to over $200 million since 2024.
“We built Havoc around a simple belief: The future of national security depends on collaborative autonomy that works in the real world, not in controlled demos or years from now,” said Paul Lwin, CEO of Havoc. “In less than two years, we’ve already built one of the most mature collaborative autonomy software stacks in the industry, operating across more than 100 air, surface, and ground platforms.”
Founded in 2024, Havoc said its software-defined hardware approach enables military and commercial-grade autonomous systems to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. The East Providence, R.I.-based company claimed that it connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc said this optimizes mission performance and minimizes human risk.
Havoc aims to create unified defense systems across domains
Havoc asserted that defense technology is entering a new era where national security priorities are demanding unified, all-domain autonomy. The blueprint for building drones, boats, and ground vehicles exists. What is missing is the ability for thousands of autonomous assets to work together in a way that is coordinated, scalable, and resilient, it said.
The company said it has more than 25,000 hours of autonomous testing and deployment experience. Havoc has collected over 200 billion data points from autonomous operations and has delivered more than 30 vehicles to the U.S. Department of War.
The company added that its software-defined hardware enables one-to-many control, with a single operator supervising thousands of autonomous assets working together. Havoc said it “delivers real-time decision-making at the edge through all-domain collaborative autonomy, enabling persistent autonomous tasking.”
“Autonomy at the edge fuses sensing, planning, and control, enabling heterogeneous assets to self-organize and execute complex missions with minimal supervision,” the company stated. “The Havoc stack is modular and works with any platform or sensor to support autonomous navigation, dynamic path planning, and collision avoidance.”
Havoc said its intuitive, mission-focused user interface “reduces cognitive load and collapses the distance between operator intent and execution.” The company has acquired Mavrik and Teleo and partnered with Leidos, Lockheed Martin, and SAIC, as well as with shipbuilders PacMar and Senesco, plus additive manufacturing partners.
Funding to accelerate deployment across domains
Havoc’s Series A round included participation from new investors CCM Capital Markets, Clear Street LLC, Cobalt Capital, Boardman Bay Capital Management, Meet Perry, Mute Ventures, Soren Ventures, SAIC, and JA Green.
“Havoc has done what very few companies in this space have managed,” said Will Graves, chief investment officer at Boardman Bay Capital Management. “They’ve built a truly scalable collaborative autonomy platform that works across all domains, and the demand signal from the U.S. military speaks for itself.”
Existing investors included Outlander VC, Scout VC, B Capital, Lockheed Martin, Taiwania Capital, UP.Partners, and The Veteran Fund, alongside participation from Vanderbilt University’s endowment.
“Havoc is building foundational infrastructure for how autonomous systems will coordinate and act across every domain,” said Dan Abrams, managing partner at Cobalt Capital. “That’s a generational platform opportunity, and exactly the kind of category-defining company Cobalt looks to back.”
“Our autonomous platforms and command-and-control systems have already demonstrated that they provide warfighters meaningful capability in the exact environments where future conflicts will occur: contested, distributed, and communications-degraded environments,” Lwin said. “With this funding, we will accelerate deployment across every domain and prove that a single warfighter can task, monitor, and supervise thousands of heterogeneous autonomous systems working together as one force.”
The company has already doubled its staff to 200 employees and opened offices in Austin and San Diego. It named former Congressman Devin Nunes, chair of the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board, as a member of its board.
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