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Antenna

Defense · Burlington, MA · Founded 2019 · Raised $58M · Early stage

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Review noteSeven-year-old Massachusetts maker of small AI radars for drone detection and counter-UAS, Series B with $58M raised and L3Harris, DHS and US Army relationships; known in the counter-drone market, not a pre-discovery company. Source ↗

Edge

24#39 · ▲75 in 7d

2 of 8 families

Why now

  1. Applied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Slidell, Louisiana: 4 transmitters on 24.45-24.65 GHz

    Regulatory · Sep 24

  2. DNS records name 2 vendor tools: HubSpot and Atlassian

    Traffic · Undated

People

Score

Momentum48

 

Regulatory, traffic

Thesis fit100

× 1.00

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

Earliness30

× 0.58

Already visible: company age, capital raised

Team–

× 0.85

2 named people, none from a top lab or company

48 × 1.00 × 0.58 × 0.85 = 24

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 16RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority: 2 transmitters on 24.45-24.65 GHz↗
  2. Oct 6RegulatoryReceived FCC special temporary authority for fixed radar testing at Slidell, Louisiana, 12 days after filing↗
  3. Sep 24RegulatoryApplied for FCC special temporary authority to test at Slidell, Louisiana: 4 transmitters on 24.45-24.65 GHz↗

Undated

  1. TrafficDNS records name 2 vendor tools: HubSpot and Atlassian↗
  2. TrafficDomain rank 2,164,737 of 4.6M ranked sites, unranked on Sep 18 and ranked on Jul 20↗