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Shield AI

Defence · San Diego, United States · Founded 2015

Builds self-driving technology that enables swarms of unmanned systems to operate on the edge without GPS, communications, or remote pilots

Valuation $10–50B
Revenue $500M–1B
Headcount 1–2k
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Knowledge graph
News Powerlaw adds Shield AI, backer of $12.7B defense autonomy firm, to portfolio Aug 4, 2026 Market map US Defence Startups Jun 25, 2026 News Booz Allen Hamilton makes strategic investment in PDW to scale domestic drone production May 27, 2026 News Shield AI raises $2B at $12.7B valuation to fuel AI pilot and simulation push Mar 26, 2026 Market map US National Security & Defense Market Map Market map World models, physical AI, robotics general intelligence

Talent graph

Shield AI's talent

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Employees mapped 1,743 incl. 26 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 32 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

25 investors on Shield AI's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 4 investors entered at this stage
Dorm Room Fund
Homebrew
Founder Collective
Bloomberg Beta
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Breyer Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Series B+ 19 investors entered at this stage
SVB Capital
US Innovative Technology Fund
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Advent International
Thomas Tull
Blackstone
L3Harris Technologies
Hanwha Aerospace
Elad Gil
Thrive Capital
Standard Treasury
Washington Harbour Partners
Jetstream Venture Fund
Riot Ventures
ARK Invest
Doug Philippone
Snowpoint Ventures
Point72 Ventures
Disruptive Tech

Ownership

Who owns Shield AI

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (Mar/2026). Percentages are indicative.

19.6% Founders
  • Andreessen Horowitz 14.2%

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where Shield AI has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
20 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States90.7%
🇦🇺 Australia5.6%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.6%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.5%
🇰🇷 South Korea0.5%
Top 5 of 20 shown
Web traffic by country
200K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States41.4%
🇮🇳 India5.3%
🇦🇺 Australia4.9%
🇪🇸 Spain4.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$756k patent portfolio · 2 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$756k
<0.01% of valuation · 32.5× smaller than top peer Gecko Robotics ($25M)
2 active patent families
Where Shield AI innovates AirplaneAirplane modeControl theoryFlight vehicleFuselage

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.

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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.

Portfolio analysis

4 deals across Shield AI's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        4 of 4 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market 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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