Israeli defense-AI startup Airis Labs has publicly emerged from stealth with $60 million in total funding, driven by a fresh $31 million Series B led by growth investor PSG Equity. The Tel Aviv-based company is pitching itself as a new category of "User-Generated Field Intelligence," turning unstructured video from smartphones, body cameras, drones and social media into machine-readable intelligence for defense, security and law-enforcement agencies.
The Round and the Backers
The Series B was led by PSG Equity, with participation from existing investors TLV Partners, StepStone Group and Redseed Ventures and angel backers including former Mellanox CEO Eyal Waldman, Insight Partners co-founder Jeff Horing, Yasmin Lukatz and David Chinn. The new capital brings Airis' total funding to $60 million across seed and Series A rounds that the company had kept under wraps since its founding in April 2023.
What the Platform Does
Airis Labs claims its system can speed up traditional field-video analysis tasks by up to 150x, ingesting fragmented feeds from operators, civilians and sensors and surfacing structured signals an analyst can act on. The platform was built outside the controlled lab environments that dominate commercial video AI, and went operational within months of the company's founding under what Airis describes as real-world conditions: massive data volumes, fragmented feeds and high-stakes outcomes.
A Defense-Tech Boom in Wartime Tel Aviv
Founded by defense veterans Noam Friedman, Amos Lahav and Rotem Abeles, Airis Labs is one of a growing class of Israeli AI companies that built and scaled during the country's ongoing conflict. The startup will use the capital to roughly double its headcount by the end of 2026 as it expands commercial and government customers.
Where It Fits in the Defense-AI Stack
The raise lands inside a defense-tech market still ripping in funding, with mega-rounds reshaping who builds the next generation of autonomy hardware and analytics software. Anduril Industries just closed a $5 billion Series H at a $61 billion valuation, and Perennial Autonomy landed a $500M Pentagon IDIQ for counter-drone work. Where those companies are racing to build hardware, Airis is targeting the data layer above them, knitting together imagery from human operators, body cameras and aerial platforms.
Battle-Tested Demand Signals
Demand for software that can rapidly fuse video, drone and ground-robot feeds is being shaped in real time on the battlefield, as illustrated by recent reporting on U.S. humanoid robots being tested in Ukrainian combat zones. With more unmanned platforms feeding back footage every month, the bottleneck has shifted from sensors to analysis, and that is the bottleneck Airis Labs is now armed with $60 million to attack.
What's Next
Airis Labs did not disclose a valuation but said it is now scaling commercial deployments alongside government work. With a Series B led by a marquee growth investor, a battle-tested platform and a category it is trying to define, the company is positioning itself as the connective tissue between an exploding fleet of cameras, drones and robots and the analysts who have to make sense of them.
Reporting based on coverage from AI Insider, SiliconANGLE, Axios, Calcalist, The Jerusalem Post and TFN.