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RowndWinter 2022Active

Raleigh · NC, USA · Defense · founded 2022 · https://rownd.ai

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Rownd: limited disclosed financing to assess.

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Where it sits in Defense

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.

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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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How it compares to the market

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.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
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Sector median$6.5M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
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Sector median$49.6M

Raised more than 43% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 43% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

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.

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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.

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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.

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What does Rownd do and where is it based?
Rownd operates in the Defense sector, based in Raleigh, NC, USA. Fully autonomous defense solutions for the global edge.
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