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Raleigh · NC, USA · Defense · founded 2022 · https://rownd.ai
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Rownd — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Rownd: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Rownd is one of 61 Defense companies tracked from Raleigh, NC, USA, on record since 2022. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 43% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
Fully autonomous defense solutions for the global edge.
Rownd AI builds fully autonomous drones that use local edge intelligence and global LTE/5G/SatCom failover to eliminate the 1:1 pilot bottleneck anywhere on earth or space. We are currently field-deployed with active customers across U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) via our defense business line, ArcEdge AI. Operating out of Raleigh, NC and Wisconsin, we leveraged our team's background in mobile hardware optimization and zero-trust architectures to build true cognitive autonomy directly onto physical aircraft. While we are heavily focused on defense technology today, our ultimate mission is scaling this physical autonomous infrastructure across commercial enterprise edge applications.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 61 companies in Defense. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 43% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 43% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
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Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Rownd is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 Tactical, LLC | Defense | Pre-Seed | $100K | $492K | same sector |
| 9 Mothers | Defense | — | — | — | same sector |
| AICE | Defense | — | — | — | same sector |
| Albacore Inc. | Defense | — | — | — | same sector |
| Alchemy | Defense | — | — | — | same sector |
| ApolloShield | Defense | — | — | — | same sector |
| Arkenstone Defense, Inc. | Defense | Series A | $8.6M | $2.3M | same sector |
| Arlo Industries | Defense | — | — | — | same sector |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeing Systems Modular AI-Commanded Drones for Defence | AI / ML | — | — | 79% |
| Iris Automation Enabling autonomous drone operations globally through AI software | Robotics | — | — | 76% |
| AICE Submarine drones for defense | Defense | — | — | 76% |
| Airbase Intelligence, Inc. | AI / ML | Series A | $17.0M | 75% |
| Gander Automation System for Global Aviation | AI / ML | — | — | 75% |
| Surtr Defense Systems The hardware-agnostic operating system for drone defense | Defense | — | — | 75% |
| Null Labs End-to-end Simulation for Defense Autonomy | Robotics | — | — | 74% |
| General Instinct Deployable Physical AI on Any Edge Device. | AI / ML | — | — | 74% |
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