Best Military Tech Companies in Texas, United States
The 41 best Military Tech companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Saronic.
Ranked: Best Military Tech companies in Texas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saronic 🦄 Developer of autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime forces 78Funding top 18%AI top 20%Moat top 26%Growth top 30% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% AItop 20% Moattop 26% Growthtop 30% Talenttop 33% Newstop 34% Techtop 47% Marketbottom 48% Globalbottom 44% Funding: Raised $230M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $230M | 5 mo ago | Series D | Doug Lambert Co-Founder & COO | 2022 | Apple iCloud MailNode.jsSalesforce+15 | — | 2 launchs |
| 2 | Onebrief 🦄 Cloud-based mind mapping solutions for enterprises and the military 45Funding top 31%Moat top 31%Partners top 32%Talent top 33% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 31% Moattop 31% Partnerstop 32% Talenttop 33% Techtop 41% Growthtop 50% Newsbottom 39% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 32% Funding: Raised $53.0M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 6 yrs (1.0/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · Unicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $53M | 7 mo ago | Series D | Grant Demaree Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WebflowApple iCloud MailSalesforce+25 | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 3 | Darkhive Developer of drone-based defense solutions | $25M | 23 mo ago | Series A | John Goodson Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | 9 patents Modular drone launch/containment hardware and autonomous UAV operation technologies. | — |
| 4 | Prioria Small & Micro UAVs for military, public safety and commercial purposes | $20M | 144 mo ago | Deadpooled | Bryan Da Frota Co-Founder & CEO | 2003 | — | 2 patents Real-time onboard image analysis and pattern recognition for autonomous vehicle vision systems. | — |
| 5 | Adyton Diverse software for the military | $16M | 16 mo ago | Series B | J Wilson Co-Founder | 2018 | Webflowanime.jsAmazon Web Services+20 | — | — |
| 6 | Allen Control Systems Provider of counter-drone robotic gun systems for military 48Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Funding top 36%Moat top 39% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Moattop 39% Techbottom 44% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 32% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $12M | 17 mo ago | Series A | Luke Allen Co-Founder & CTO | 2024 | WebflowTypekitCloudflare Turnstile+10 | — | — |
| 7 | OpsLab Developer of drone-based flight planning solutions | $6M | 17 mo ago | Series A | Arun Nair Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+22 | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | Athena Security Provider of AI-driven security management solution for buildings | $6M | 86 mo ago | Seed | Christopher Ciabarra Co-Founder and Chief AI Architect | 2018 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+43 | — | — |
| 9 | InView Technology Corp Developer of shortwave infrared cameras | $5M | 143 mo ago | Series B | Lenore McMackin Founder & CTO | 2009 | — | 34 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 10 | Modern Intelligence Developer of AI-based countermeasure solutions for the military | $5M | 53 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Optex Systems Manufacturer of augmented camera systems for defence | $3M | 114 mo ago | Public | — | 1987 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | — | 3 job openings |
| 12 | Intelligence Surveillance Corp Developer of the sensor-based object detection and ranging systems | $575K | 62 mo ago | Seed | David Buschhorn Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Skycom Platform offering wireless network infrastructure | $548K | 39 mo ago | Seed | Max Michaelis Founder & CTO | 2015 | — | 29 patents Leak detection and mitigation technologies for lighter‑than‑air airships and platforms | — |
| 14 | Skyways Autonomous drone solutions for long-range logistics in harsh environments | $120K | 14 mo ago | Early Stage | Charles Acknin Co-Founder | 1996 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+13 | — | — |
Top 12 Military Tech companies in Texas
#1
Saronic 🦄Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2022 · 32 employees$230.5Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime forces. These vessels enhance awareness, extend reach, and improve survivability in diverse operational environments. The autonomous surface vessels navigate using adaptive path planning and identify targets with advanced algorithms. They leverage resilient communications to enable manned and unmanned teaming. The vessels deliver user-defined effects with payload integrations and adapt to mission-specific requirements.
- Mar 2026Series D$1.8B
- Feb 2025Series C$600M
- Jun 2024Series B$175.5M
- Oct 2023Series A$55M
#2
Onebrief 🦄Series D · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 4 employees$53Mraised▾
Cloud-based mind mapping solutions for enterprises and the military. It provides features such as a task dashboard, automated planning, mission analysis, process automation, presentation building tools, file searching engine, etc.
- Jan 2026Series D—
- Apr 2025Series C$23.6M
- Dec 2024Series C$58.7M
- Apr 2024Series B$16M
#3
Series B · Dallas, Texas · founded 2018$16.2Mraised▾
Diverse software for the military. Its products help with ersonnel and equipment accountability, automated data reporting, and team coordination, communication, and scheduling in the defense industry.
- Apr 2025Series B$12.8M
- May 2022Series A$12M
- Dec 2019Series A$4.2M
#4
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2024$12Mraised▾
Provider of counter-drone robotic gun systems for military. It specialize in counter-drone robotic gun systems for military use.It automatically detects enemy UAS and kinetically defeats them.
- Mar 2025Series A$30M
- Apr 2024Seed$12M
#5
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2018$6.3Mraised▾
Developer of drone-based flight planning solutions. It offers AI-powered software to solve operational planning, tracking, and recovery problems at scale. Its features include scheduling, routing and dispatch, and automation of UAVs.
- Apr 2025Series A$4M
- Oct 2023Seed$6.3M
#6
Series A · San Antonio, Texas · founded 2021 · 8 employees$25Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous drone systems designed to intuitively interact with robotics platforms in order to understand their common environment and make decisions together. The company offers a core software suite and a palm-sized autonomous drone that is optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of its software stack, enabling military and public safety robotics systems to integrate with the existing military equipment and create human-machine teams.
#7
Early Stage · Austin, Texas · founded 1996 · 17 employees$120Kraised▾
Autonomous drone solutions for long-range logistics in harsh environments. The company provides cutting-edge autonomous aircraft for the oil & gas and military & defense industries. They specialize in developing and deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of heavy payload delivery in challenging conditions. Their solutions offer a fast, flexible, and cost-effective alternative to traditional logistics, reducing transport times and improving efficiency. They focus on embodied AI, building autonomy and flying robots to provide ultimate logistics solutions. The company is committed to innovation, pushing the limits of technology to ensure optimal safety and performance. They offer solutions for critical component transport, emergency response, and remote location support.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt$5M
- Aug 2017Unattributed$120K
#8
Deadpooled · Gainesville, Texas · founded 2003 · 24 employees$20Mraised▾
Prioria Robotics focuses on developing systems designed to perform sophisticated aerial security (military and civilian) or surveillance tasks. It offers the Maveric Unmanned Aircraft System and the Merlin embedded processing platform as well as engineering services to design custom offerings around both products. It also contains sensors for day, night or obscured hazy environmental reconnaissance work. Prioria also provides engineering solutions for industrial and ground robotics, medical device manufacturers, military and homeland security applications, and cutting-edge commercial products. It has been awarded $4.5 million worth of contracts to produce 36 small unmanned aircraft and 12 ground control stations for the U.S. Army in November 2013.
- Aug 2014Series C$2M
- Dec 2013Series C$5.5M
- Jun 2012Series C$5.5M
- Dec 2011Series A$4.5M
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 28 employees$5Mraised▾
Developer of AI-based countermeasure solutions for the military. It develops software that operates on artificial intelligence that recognizes threats, and external bodies like drones, satellites, patrol aircraft, and surface radar. It tracks analyzes and keeps custody of the targets, and is capable of customized scene understanding.
- Mar 2022Seed$5M
#10
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2009 · 4 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Developer of shortwave infrared cameras. Its compressive sensing technology enables the replacement of InGaAs Focal Plane Array with components and signals processing algorithms making the SWIR cameras smarter thus enabling their wider adoption in applications like microscopy, surveillance, and maritime navigation.
- Oct 2014Grant (prize money)$791.2K
- Jul 2013Grant (prize money)$149.3K
- Mar 2013Series B$25K
- Dec 2012Series B$1.7M
#11
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 51 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-driven security management solution for buildings. The solution is in the form of a machine learning layer that employs a graphics card and computer vision to detect dangerous objects, alerting administrators (or the police) via an app when a threat’s detected. It employs a hybrid processing model that performs the bulk of inference on-premises, which gives it the advantage of being able to interface with third-party systems to lock doors, halt elevators, and communicate with people on site. It has applications in the areas of schools and education and retail sectors.
- Jun 2019Seed$5.5M
- 2018Seed—
#12
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2015 · 4 employees$547.6Kraised▾
Platform offering wireless network infrastructure. it designs and manufactures small-scale airships for various monitoring applications. It helps with surveillance, communications, remote sensing, and scientific research processes.
- May 2023Seed$232.6K
- Apr 2017Seed$315K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Military Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Defense Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Defense Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 462 United States-affiliated papers.
- Pennsylvania State University19
- United States Air Force Research Laboratory15
- United States Naval Academy12
- U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology10
- Naval Postgraduate School9
- Photonics2→4
- Jamming6→7
- Electronic warfare55
- Radar36
- Missile32
- Missile defense18
- Jamming12
- Aerospace engineering2→4
- Cruise missile4→5
Where defense tech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing defense tech patents in the United States
United States defense tech patent filing is accelerating — 57 filings from 65 assignees (2016–2025), led by Raytheon, BAE SYS INF & Elect SYS Integ, Lockheed; annual filings 3→6.
- Raytheon17
- BAE SYS INF & Elect SYS Integ15
- Lockheed10
- Leonardo Electronics US10
- AAI10
- Rocky Research7
- Stroili Frank D5
- Huggett James M5
Common questions
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