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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

Valuation
$10–50B
Latest valuation · Mar/2026
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Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
1–2k
Current team size
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Investors

25 investors on Shield AI's cap table

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

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

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

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
190K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States46%
🇮🇳 India5.6%
🇹🇭 Thailand5.2%
🇹🇼 Taiwan2.8%
🏳️ Korea2.7%
Top 5 markets shown

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.

32 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
26 AI specialistsincl. 20 core researchers
1,511 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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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

Estimated portfolio value
$756k
<0.01% of valuation · 45.3× smaller than top peer Gecko Robotics ($34M)
2 active patent families
Where Shield AI innovates AirplaneLevel flightControl theoryJet aeroplaneAirplane mode

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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    By stageCount
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        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”.

        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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