Alta Ares raises €50M in a round led by Air Street Capital to scale its AI-powered air defence platform, with participation from Cherry Ventures, OTB Ventures, and Harpoon Ventures.
Founded in 2024 and shaped by battlefield observations from Ukraine, the company already has deployments across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
The funding will accelerate production, product development, and international expansion as demand for counter-drone systems surges across NATO and partner nations.
A few years ago, countries spent millions of euros to defend against sophisticated missiles and aircraft.
Today, militaries increasingly face swarms of low-cost autonomous drones capable of overwhelming traditional air defence systems at a fraction of that cost. That asymmetry, where attack is cheap and defence is expensive, is creating a generation of defence technology companies focused on one challenge: how to reverse it.
