Scout AI fetches $100M in Series A capital
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Ross Wilkers
The two-year-old company labels its flagship product as an "AI brain" and outs Booz Allen Hamilton's venture arm as a backer.
Scout AI, a developer of software to help coordinate unmanned military systems, has completed a $100 million Series A investment round to aid the further development of its artificial intelligence model.
Co-founders Colby Adcock and Collin Otis, respectively CEO and chief technology officer, started Scout AI in the summer of 2024 as a frontier AI lab focused on bringing robotics technologies into defense environments.
Scout AI’s flagship offering, called Fury, is designed to act as an “AI brain” for coordinating large fleets of unmanned systems across multiple domains of conflict. Fury works as an embodied AI system that looks at the physical world, interprets natural language and issues real-time motor commands to robotic vehicles.
Align Ventures and Draper Associates led the Series A round announced Thursday. Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture capital arm is a returning investor one year after it led Scout AI’s seed round to emerge from stealth.
Other participants in the Series A round included Decisive Point, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, Disruptive Founders Fund and Vaughn Capital Partners.
Scout AI will also use some of the new proceeds to expand its team, which currently stands at 34 employees.
The company was one of 20 winners in the Army’s xTechOverWatch competition, which sought to identify technologies that showed promise for transition into operational capability. Scout AI demonstrated Fury on a Hendrick Motorsports-provided unmanned ground vehicle platform.