Shield AI Inc
Shield AI is a defense-tech company building the world's best AI pilots and next-generation aircraft.
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About Shield AI Inc
How much funding has Shield AI Inc raised?
Shield AI Inc has raised $1.19B in total funding. The most recent round was Series G.
Where is Shield AI Inc headquartered?
Shield AI Inc is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
What does Shield AI Inc do?
Shield AI is a defense-tech company building the world's best AI pilots and next-generation aircraft.
What problem does Shield AI Inc solve?
In contested and degraded environments, military platforms lose communications, manual control falters, and human operators become overwhelmed.
What's Shield AI Inc's solution?
Shield AI builds resilient, mission-critical autonomy software (Hivemind) plus autonomous aircraft (X-BAT, V-BAT) and related systems for defense operations.
What makes Shield AI Inc different?
The page cites demonstrated real-world autonomy: Hivemind enabled the X-62 VISTA to autonomously fly and perform tactical maneuvers against human pilots, flew an MQ-20 Avenger using government reference-architecture-compliant interfaces, and ran dual-ship autonomy tests with Kratos drones.
What makes Shield AI Inc notable?
Co-founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Brandon Tseng, the latter a former Navy SEAL; backers have included Andreessen Horowitz and defense contractor L3Harris.
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