The defence-tech land grab has a new front, and it sits above the drones and sensors that get the headlines.
Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command, has raised a €32mn Series A led by Blossom Capital, with a strategic investment from Sweden’s Saab and renewed backing from Expeditions. The round was announced at Eurosatory, one of the world’s largest defence exhibitions.
The company works on what the industry calls C2, command and control, the software that sits above sensors, drones, and weapons and turns a flood of data into decisions. Its platform, Prevail, is built around what it describes as a “digital command staff” of specialised AI agents, each handling a function from mission analysis to after-action review.
The pitch, in founder Loïc Mougeolle’s words: “We are moving from a battlefield governed by words to a battlefield governed by mathematics.” With Prevail, the company says, a single laptop becomes a command node that can coordinate manned units and drone swarms alike, while a human still makes every final call.
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