Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026
Neros Archer is a FPV drone built for modular payloads and resilient communications. | Source: Neros Neros Inc. this week announced it raised $250 million in a Series C round. This brought the drone defense contractor to a $2.5 billion valuation. “This newest round of funding accelerates Neros into a multi-capability drone manufacturer,” stated Soren Monroe-Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Neros. “Our mission to produce 1 million drones per year hasn’t changed, but the spa
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Neros Technologies, a drone defense contractor founded in 2023, raised $250 million in funding that values the company at $2.5 billion and brings its total goal to produce 1 million drones per year by 2028. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate development and deployment of two drone platforms: Archer AI, a first-person view drone with autonomy features, and Bandit, an interceptor drone designed to counter certain drone threats. Both systems are being developed with capabilities for multi-asset control or "swarming," and the company plans to deploy them in combat theaters by the end of 2026. Funding for defense drones has significantly increased amid ongoing conflicts, with multiple other drone manufacturers raising hundreds of millions of dollars in recent months.
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