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Shield AI
Defence · San Diego, United States · Founded 2015 Decacorn
Builds self-driving technology that enables swarms of unmanned systems to operate on the edge without GPS, communications, or remote pilots
Global footprint
Where Shield AI has talent and traffic
(26 of 1,486 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$756k patent portfolio · 2 active families
Where Shield AI concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Shield AI and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Shield AI's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Shield AI appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2021–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
4 deals across Shield AI's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Shield AI's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Shield AI
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Shield AI on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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