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Autonomy · Kirkland, WA · Founded 2014 · Raised $202M · Growth stage

Echodyne

Review noteA well-known 12-year-old metamaterial radar maker (EchoGuard, EchoShield) backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona and Northrop Grumman, with roughly $200M raised and about 300 staff. Source ↗

Edge

23#43 · ▲46 in 7d

2 of 8 families

Why now

  1. Applied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Terre Haute, Indiana: 1 transmitter on 15.7-16.6 GHz

    Regulatory · Oct 8

  2. Email runs on Microsoft 365 GCC High or DoD (MX at office365.us), a US government cloud for controlled data

    Traffic · Undated

People

Score

Momentum64

 

Regulatory, traffic

Thesis fit99

× 0.99

Matched on autonomous, autonomy, c-uas, counter-drone, counter-uas

Earliness5

× 0.43

Already visible: capital raised, funding stage

Team–

× 0.85

5 named people, none from a top lab or company

64 × 0.99 × 0.43 × 0.85 = 23

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 8RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Terre Haute, Indiana: 1 transmitter on 15.7-16.6 GHz↗
  2. Oct 7RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Woodinville, Washington and 1 more site↗
  3. Oct 6RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Autryville, North Carolina, starting Nov 16↗
  4. Oct 5RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Duvall, Washington and 1 more site↗
  5. Sep 28RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Duvall, Washington and 1 more site on 24450-24650 MHz↗
  6. Sep 19RegulatoryApplied for a new FCC experimental license: 40 transmitters on 15.7-16.55 and 24.45-24.65 GHz↗
  7. Sep 18RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Buttonwillow, California on 15.7-16.6 GHz↗

Undated

  1. TrafficEmail runs on Microsoft 365 GCC High or DoD (MX at office365.us), a US government cloud for controlled data↗
  2. TrafficDNS records name 5 vendor tools: HubSpot, Salesforce, Mailchimp, Rippling and Atlassian↗
  3. TrafficDomain rank improved from 1,260,973 to 1,154,736 in 30 days, within the normal range↗