Helsing News Latest Helsing news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $1.8B raised. 14 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Helsing is a five-year-old European defense technology firm building AI software, drones and military systems for air, land, sea and underwater operations. Headquartered in Munich, it has rapidly become Europe's most valuable defense AI startup, backed by inve...
YC-Backed Zeit AI Raises €5M Seed To Ship 'Autonomous Data Engineer' To European Mid-Market — Sep 3, 2026 — Munich's Zeit AI closed a €5M seed on September 3, 2026 backed by Y Combinator, Sequoia's Scout Fund and Hasso Plattner VC to scale ZeitMind across Ge...Anduril In Talks To Raise Funding At $100B Valuation, More Than 3x Its May Mark — Aug 3, 2026 — Defense tech company Anduril is reportedly in talks to raise a new capital round that would push its valuation to about $100 billion — more than tripl...Fincantieri Buys NextGeo, WSense, Graal Tech, Defcomm In €600M Underwater Push — Jul 30, 2026 — Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri announces a €600M rollup of four underwater specialists — NextGeo, WSense, Graal Tech and Defcomm — to build a vertica...Helsing Closes $1.8B Series E At $18B In Europe's Largest Defense Raise — Jul 30, 2026 — Munich AI defense company Helsing raises $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Dragoneer, Lightspeed and CPPIB — the...Helsing Picks West Virginia For $50M HX-2 Strike-Drone Factory — Jul 17, 2026 — Munich defense-AI company Helsing will build its first U.S. Resilience Factory in Martinsburg, West Virginia, investing $50 million to manufacture up...Neros Wins Up To $500M U.S. Army FPV Drone Contract — Jul 16, 2026 — Neros Technologies has landed a Defense Department contract worth up to $500 million to supply Archer first-person-view drones to the U.S. Army — one...Quantum Systems Raises $1.2B Series D at $8B Valuation — Jul 3, 2026 — Munich drone maker Quantum Systems closed a $1.2 billion Series D co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus and Advent, doubling its valuation to $8 billio...KNDS Unveils Containerized Drone Launcher Concept at Eurosatory 2026 — Jun 18, 2026 — KNDS revealed a 20-foot container that launches Helsing HX-2 strike drones and Tytan TI-1 METIS interceptors, fusing offense and local air defense in...Stark Defence Closes In On €300M Round At €2.5B For Virtus Strike Drones — Jun 15, 2026 — The Berlin-based kamikaze drone startup is doubling its valuation 18 months after founding, with Peter Thiel joining a round to bankroll mass producti...Milrem Robotics And VDL Defentec Open Dutch THeMIS Line For Ukraine — Jun 14, 2026 — Milrem Robotics and VDL Defentec opened a THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle assembly line in Born, the Netherlands, handing over the first UGVs from a 10...Helsing Unveils CA-1EA Electronic Attack Drone At ILA Berlin — Jun 10, 2026 — Helsing has launched the CA-1EA, an electronic attack variant of its in-development CA-1 Europa UCAV, targeting 2031 service entry with a Hensoldt Kae...Pentagon CDAO Picks 25 Companies For Crucible 2 Swarm Forge Showdown — Jun 6, 2026 — The Pentagon's Chief Digital and AI Office named 25 companies — Anduril, AeroVironment, Lockheed Martin, Palantir USG, Shield AI, Helsing, Mistral and...Helsing Unveils Area 9 Research Division and RX-1 European Robotics Platform — Jun 3, 2026 — Helsing's Area 9 research division debuts at the Paris Air Show alongside RX-1, a sovereign European robotics research platform.Helsing Nears $1.2B Round at $18B as European Defense AI Soars — May 31, 2026 — European defense AI startup Helsing is closing in on a $1.2 billion round at an $18 billion valuation, led by Dragoneer with co-lead Lightspeed.