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Shield AI
Defence · San Diego, United States · Founded 2015
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
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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
Investors
25 investors on Shield AI's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
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.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Global footprint
Where Shield AI has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Shield AI's talent
Dealroom maps Shield AI's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
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”.
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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