Comparison
Shield AI vs Scout AI
Shield AI — AI-powered autonomous aircraft and drone systems for defense operations. Scout AI — Builds Fury, a vision-language-action foundation model turning unmanned ground, air, sea, and space military systems into autonomous agents.
How they compare
Funding, contracts, and company data pulled directly from the Defense Tech Atlas index — see each company's full profile for sourced citations behind every figure.
| Dimension | Shield AI | Scout AI |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | San Diego, CA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Founded | 2015 | 2024 |
| Stage | Series F | Series A |
| Total disclosed funding | $3.5B | $115M ($15M seed Jan 2025 + $100M Series A Apr 2026) |
| Valuation | $5.3B (Series F-1, Mar 2025) | Not disclosed |
| Employees | 1,000 | ~34 (per TechCrunch, April 2026) |
| Contracts tracked | 2 contracts | 2 contracts |
| Investors tracked | 2 investors | 19 investors |
| Shared focus areas | ai, autonomy | ai, autonomy |