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Grid Aero Raises $20 Million As It Preps To Begin Flying Long-Range Cargo UAS

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Grid Aero Raises $20 Million As It Preps To Begin Flying Long-Range Cargo UAS
Grid Aero's Lifter Lite autonomous cargo aircraft inside a hangar. Photo: Grid Aero

Grid Aero on Monday said it has raised $20 million in a funding round to move the Lifter Lite long-range, autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) into flight testing and use in military exercises and customer use cases this year. Bison Ventures and Geodesic Capital led the Series A round, which follows Grid Aero’s exit from stealth last August with a $6 million seed round (Defense Daily, Aug. 18, 2025). The initial Lifter Lite prototype has been assembled and is “progressing…

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