Silicon Valley Is Backing Autonomous Weapons For Countering Drone Attacks

Building new hardware for countering drone attacks is one of the most important areas of defense tech. And now, there is a new startup leveraging autonomous precision robotics to do it.

‍What’s happening:‍

• Autonomous precision robotics defense startup Allen Control Systems has raised $30M USD in a new Series A financing round
  
• The round was led by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital fund Craft Ventures
  

Why it matters:‍

• Allen Control Systems’ flagship product known as Bullfrog leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and proprietary control systems to directly detect and combat hostile drone attacks completely autonomously
  

Going deeper:‍

• Multiple other notable venture capital funds also participated in Allen Control Systems latest funding round, including Inspired Capital and Rally Ventures
  
• Countering drone attacks has continued to emerge as an important theme in both Silicon Valley and Wall Street, which as led to new collaborations between OpenAI and Anduril and publicly listed companies such as Ondas Holdings (NASDAQ: ONDS) beginning to expand their counter drone systems into Europe, the Middle East and Asia

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