Stark builds autonomous strike drones for defense applications.
$545MSeries B
A $545M Series B for autonomous defense drones—backed by Sequoia and Founders Fund alongside NATO's innovation arm—signals that Western governments are now writing checks for autonomous weapons at scale, not just R&D grants. If you're building in robotics, autonomous systems, or defense-adjacent hardware, this validates that the regulatory/procurement bottleneck is cracking open; the real constraint now is engineering and production speed, not policy risk.