Frontier AI lab building Fury, a vision-language-action foundation model for unmanned warfare and defense robotics.
Defense📍 Sunnyvale, CaliforniaFounded 2024
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2026-Q2
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Scout AI going public?
No. Scout AI is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Scout AI's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Scout AI. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Scout AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Scout AI.
Who are Scout AI's investors?
Scout AI's investors include Align Ventures, Draper Associates, Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures and 5 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Scout AI is a frontier AI lab building Fury, a vision-language-action foundation model that translates commander intent into coordinated autonomous action across mixed fleets of unmanned air, land, sea, and space systems. In April 2026 the company closed a $100M Series A — the largest defense-tech Series A in U.S. history — co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, on the heels of $11M in DoD contracts and a public demonstration of a fully autonomous, end-to-end AI-executed strike mission.
Company Profile
CEO
Colby Adcock
Founded
2024
HQ
Sunnyvale, California
Employees
~34
Total Raised
$115M
Est. Revenue
$11M (2026-Q2)
Growth
$11M in DoD contracts booked in first year
Last Round
Series A — $100M (Apr 2026) · Lead: Align Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series A · $100M · 4 mo ago
privateTotal raised $115M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$100M
Apr 2026
Align Ventures
—
Vertical Intelligence — Defense / Aerospace
Federal awards
2
prime contracts, last 36 months
Obligated
$4M
top: Department of Defense
Largest award
$2M
Department of Defense
Latest award
2026-01-19
Largest award: AUTONOMOUS GROUND VEHICLE SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED VISION LANGUAGE MODELS AND RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES TO DELIVER MISSION-C (W5170125CA057)
Name-verified against recipient "SCOUT AI INC." on USASpending.gov as of 2026-08-19. Prime awards only — subcontracts and classified work are not visible in the public registry. Verify on USASpending.gov ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
18% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
28
via greenhouse
Product-build share
64%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 64% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
AI Engineer AI Researcher Electrical EngineerElectrical Integration Technician Full Stack Software EngineerGTM Senior Program Manager
Counted from Scout AI's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Colby AdcockCollin Otis
Investors
Align Ventures · Draper Associates · Decisive Point · Booz Allen Ventures · BVVC · Neman Ventures · Evolution VC Partners · Heraclitus Capital Management · Sigmas Group · Disruptive Founders Fund · Vaughn Capital Partners
Products
Fury (vision-language-action foundation model for defense)
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.