StirlingX raises $20M for sovereign data intelligence platform
British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised $20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets.
StirlingX describes itself as a data intelligence company built inside a drone maker. Its platform is designed to capture, secure, fuse, analyze and act on data pulled from complex and contested settings.
The company designs and manufactures its drones, autonomous systems and analytics software in Britain, with sites in Cambridge and Oxford. Customers span critical national infrastructure and defense and current work runs from surveying and monitoring infrastructure to detecting and countering hostile drones. Named clients include utility National Grid plc and engineering group Murphy.
StirlingX was built and incubated inside GALLOS Technologies Ltd., a venture studio that creates security companies staffed by veterans of national intelligence and defense work. It spun out as a standalone business today and named Sir Jeremy Fleming chairman. Fleming ran the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, the signals intelligence agency known as GCHQ, and his appointment hands the young company boardroom experience from one of the Five Eyes’ core agencies.
