Stark Defence supplies counter-UAS systems against autonomous and remotely operated aerial threats, including through a partnership with INLEAP Photonics for German defense.
Stark Defence is a German maker of the Virtus loitering munition (a 10-minute assembly, deployed in Ukraine) with production in Germany, Ukraine, Sweden, Greece, and a UK plant opened in 2025. It raised a EUR 500M round in June 2026 at a >EUR 3.5B valuation (Sequoia and Founders Fund lead, EUR 660M+ total) and won initial Bundeswehr contracts (~EUR 269M, February 2026) under a framework up to EUR 1B. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m (not disclosed).
2 signals name Stark Defence. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.
4 facts on file. Members see all of them with the source link.
Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.
The segment's suppliers, constraints and risers, for members.
Stark Defence supplies counter-UAS systems against autonomous and remotely operated aerial threats, including through a partnership with INLEAP Photonics for German defense. Stark Defence is a German maker of the Virtus loitering munition (a 10-minute assembly, deployed in Ukraine) with production in Germany, Ukraine, Sweden, Greece, and a UK plant opened in 2025. It raised a EUR 500M round in June 2026 at a >EUR 3.5B valuation (Sequoia and Founders Fund lead, EUR 660M+ total) and won initial Bundeswehr contracts (~EUR 269M, February 2026) under a framework up to EUR
Stark Defence ranks 84 of 100 on the Robotics 100 (November 2026 edition) with a score of 79 out of 100, in Defense & security (Systems). Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence.
Rheinmetall (rank 9), Anduril (rank 16), Elbit (rank 40), Elbit Systems Ltd. (rank 74), Shield AI (rank 77), Helsing (rank 86).
Stark Defence is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Subscribers see the full file, every signal, the live ranking and the questions the signals answer: where money moved, who controls the layer, where supply is constrained. $99 a month, 7-day trial. What Frontier Tech Intelligence is →