Stratis Intelligence
Real-time defense intelligence platform fusing satellite, sensor, and logistics data for threat detection and situational awareness.
Stratis Intelligence fuses large spatial and temporal datasets -- satellite imagery, sensor data, economic/supply-chain signals, logistics, and market data -- into a real-time analytical platform for threat detection, situational awareness, and predictive modeling, positioned by press as a 'Palantir for Europe.' It runs on client infrastructure, can query petabyte-scale datasets in milliseconds, and can operate air-gapped on legacy hardware; a mission-planning tool has reportedly been trialled in Ukraine. Co-founded by CEO Ingvar Helgason (previously co-founded biotech company VitroLabs), Smári McCarthy (former Icelandic MP and OCCRP CTO who helped build the Investigative Dashboard project used in the Panama Papers investigation), and Davíð Helgason (Unity Technologies co-founder and former CEO, whose founder status became public only with the company's November 2025 seed-round coverage), the company raised an undisclosed seed round from Darkstar Ventures, an Estonian defense-focused VC (its largest check to date).
Overview
- Headquarters
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Founded
- 2025
- Employees
- Total funding
- Stage
- Seed
- Status
- active
- Domains
- Defense intelligence platform, Data fusion, Situational awareness
- Website
- stratisintel.com
Founders3
- FounderIngvar HelgasonCo-founder and CEO of Stratis Intelligence. First venture was fashion brand Ostwald Helgason (2006), scaled to 23 countries; co-founded World On A Hanger (WOAH), a cloud platform for apparel companies, sold in 2017; then co-founded VitroLabs, a lab-grown-leather biomanufacturing company (ceased operations 2025), before co-founding Stratis.
- FounderSmári McCarthyIcelandic-Irish politician and technologist; former Pirate Party MP in the Icelandic parliament (2016-2021); CTO of OCCRP (2014-2016), where he helped build the Investigative Dashboard project used to process leaked documents for the Panama Papers investigation. Did not seek re-election in 2021 and later co-founded the Stratis Intelligence data-fusion engine with Ingvar Helgason.
- FounderDavíð HelgasonCo-founder and former CEO of Unity Technologies; independently confirmed as a third co-founder of Stratis Intelligence, and as chairman of defense-AI startup Agon (2026).
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Frequently asked
- What does Stratis Intelligence do?
- Stratis Intelligence fuses large spatial and temporal datasets -- satellite imagery, sensor data, economic/supply-chain signals, logistics, and market data -- into a real-time analytical platform for threat detection, situational awareness, and predictive modeling, positioned by press as a 'Palantir for Europe.' It runs on client infrastructure, can query petabyte-scale datasets in milliseconds, and can operate air-gapped on legacy hardware; a mission-planning tool has reportedly been trialled in Ukraine. Co-founded by CEO Ingvar Helgason (previously co-founded biotech company VitroLabs), Smári McCarthy (former Icelandic MP and OCCRP CTO who helped build the Investigative Dashboard project used in the Panama Papers investigation), and Davíð Helgason (Unity Technologies co-founder and former CEO, whose founder status became public only with the company's November 2025 seed-round coverage), the company raised an undisclosed seed round from Darkstar Ventures, an Estonian defense-focused VC (its largest check to date).
- Where is Stratis Intelligence headquartered?
- Stratis Intelligence is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland and was founded in 2025.
- What does Stratis Intelligence specialize in?
- Stratis Intelligence works across Defense intelligence platform, Data fusion, Situational awareness.
Sources & citations5
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Icelandic startup Stratis emerges from stealth to build a 'Palantir for Europe'
Resilience Media: Stratis, a mysterious Icelandic startup, emerges from stealth to build a 'Palantir for Europe'Verified2025-09-01 - 2
Secures seed funding from Darkstar Ventures to scale real-time defence intelligence platform
Resilience Media: Stratis secures seed funding to scale real-time defence intelligence platformVerified2025-10-01 - 3
Stratis Intelligence was founded in 2025 by Ingvar Helgason and Smári McCarthy
ArcticStartup: Stratis Raises Seed FundingVerified2025-10-02 - 4
Darkstar Ventures, Europe's first defence-only VC fund, is backed by Estonia's SmartCap Defence Fund with a €10M investment, has a €25M total fund size, and writes €500K-€1M checks at pre-seed/seed into pan-European dual-use/military tech; the Stratis Intelligence investment is its largest check to date
Trade with Estonia: Estonia Invests €10M in Darkstar, Europe's First Defence-Focused Venture Capital FundVerified2025-07-09 - 5
Stratis Intelligence was founded by Ingvar Helgason, Smári McCarthy, and former Unity Technologies CEO Davíð Helgason -- his founder status became public with the Nov 2025 seed-round coverage, after Sept 2025 stealth-launch coverage had named only the first two
ArcticStartup: Stratis lands seed funding to turn chaotic data into instant insightVerified2025-11-21