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Advanced / Transformational Technology

Autonomous Technology Company Scout AI Exits Stealth With $15 Million Seed Round

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 16th, 2025

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Autonomous Technology Company Scout AI Exits Stealth With $15 Million Seed Round

Scout AI has unveiled Fury — a first-of-its-kind foundation model for multi-domain defense. Photo: Scout AI

Scout AI, a year-old startup developing an autonomous platform for defense robotics, on Wednesday emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed $15 million seed round led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton’s [BAH] ventures unit. Fury is the name of Scout AI’s artificial intelligence-based Vision-Language-Action model that controls a robot’s actions, with the ultimate goal being to power multi-domain robot armies using human-level intelligence. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company says it trains Fury on human-level behavior, which makes it AI embodied,…

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