Scout AI, a Sunnyvale, California company that trains AI models to command unmanned military vehicles, announced a $100m Series A on 29 April 2026. The company called the round oversubscribed.
Align Ventures and Draper Associates co-led. Other investors were Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, Disruptive Founders Fund and Vaughn Capital Partners. The release did not disclose a valuation.
Washington Technology reported that Booz Allen's venture arm, which led Scout AI's seed round a year earlier when the company emerged from stealth, returned as an investor.
“The most important frontier in AI is the physical world”Colby Adcock, CEO and co-founder, Scout AI
What Scout AI builds
Scout AI's main product is Fury, a foundation model for orchestrating unmanned systems across air, land, sea and space. Washington Technology described it as an AI brain for coordinating large fleets of unmanned systems that interprets natural language and issues real-time motor commands to robotic vehicles. The release also mentions Ox, an orchestrator for autonomous vehicles built on command-and-control software.
The company was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock, chief executive, and Collin Otis, chief technology officer. Washington Technology said they started it in the summer of 2024 as a frontier AI lab focused on bringing robotics technology into defence settings.
The release said Scout AI has about $11m in contracts with the Department of War in its first year and has publicly demonstrated a fully autonomous, end-to-end strike mission carried out by AI agents.
According to the release, Fury covers only the AI reasoning layer. It turns a commander's intent into coordinated autonomous action across large, mixed fleets, with layered orchestration from command and control down to individual unmanned systems, and it is built for the tactical edge.
Evidence of progress
Washington Technology reported that Scout AI was one of 20 winners of the US Army's xTechOverWatch competition, where it demonstrated Fury on an unmanned ground vehicle provided by Hendrick Motorsports.
The company has 34 employees, according to the release, and Washington Technology said it plans to expand the team using some of the new money. The release describes Sunnyvale as part of Silicon Valley.
Dealroom added that Ox, described as the company's first commercial product, is command-and-control software that lets soldiers direct several autonomous systems with prompt-like instructions. It reported that the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division is testing the technology at Fort Hood, Texas, ahead of a planned 2027 deployment, and that the company's $11m in contracts includes work with DARPA and the Army Applications Laboratory.
What the money is for
The company said the funds will speed development of Fury, including what it called foundational military AI and multi-agent collaboration. Scout AI also said it intends to grow its team.
Adcock said: "The most important frontier in AI is the physical world." Tyrone Lee, a partner at Draper Associates, said the advantage will go to whoever can orchestrate and command unmanned systems most effectively. Otis said the US military has been promised true, one-to-many autonomy for years.
Dealroom noted that Scout is moving into ground that some major AI labs have been reluctant to enter, and also flagged open questions: ethical and accountability issues around autonomous weapons, possible regulatory or export limits, and a shortage of real-world training data for this kind of model.
The release gave no figure for revenue or valuation. Dealroom reported that the company closed a $15m seed round in January 2025, which fits Washington Technology's account of Booz Allen's venture arm leading that round.
Company website: scoutco.ai