Autonomous systems startup Havoc, Providence, R.I., on Tuesday announced it has closed a $100 million Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to roughly $200 million since its founding in 2024.
The round drew a mix of new and returning investors. New participants include CCM Capital Markets, Clear Street LLC, Cobalt Capital, Boardman Bay Capital Management, Meet Perry, Mute Ventures, Soren Ventures, defense contractor SAIC, and JA Green. Returning investors include Outlander VC, Scout VC, B Capital, Lockheed Martin, Taiwania Capital, UP.Partners, The Veteran Fund, and Vanderbilt University's endowment.
The company said it will use the funding to accelerate product development and expand into new markets.
Havoc's core product is software that allows a single operator to coordinate large numbers of autonomous vehicles across sea, air, and land simultaneously. The company says its stack runs across more than 100 platforms and has logged more than 25,000 hours of autonomous testing and deployments, collecting more than 200 billion data points in the process.
On the maritime side, the company said it has built and deployed more than 100 autonomous surface vessels (ASV) globally — including in the U.S., Europe, and the Indo-Pacific — with more than 30 delivered to the U.S. Department of Defense. Havoc said it has 40-plus vessels mission-ready today and expects to scale production to thousands of ASVs in 2026.
The company has expanded beyond maritime through two acquisitions: Mavrik, which added aerial systems, and Teleo, which brought in ground vehicle autonomy. Havoc said its goal is to bring all three domains under a single command-and-control architecture.
Strategic partnerships include agreements with defense primes Leidos, Lockheed Martin, and SAIC, as well as shipbuilders PacMar and Senesco Marine.
"In less than two years, we've already built one of the most mature collaborative autonomy software stacks in the industry, operating across more than 100 air, surface, and ground platforms," said Paul Lwin, Havoc CEO. "Our autonomous platforms and command-and-control systems have already demonstrated that they provide warfighters meaningful capability in the exact environments where future conflicts will occur: contested, distributed, and communications-degraded environments."
Havoc has won the U.S. Army's xTech competition three times — in the Overwatch and Pacific categories — and received $6 million in Small Business Innovation Research awards.
The company employs more than 200 people, a figure it says has more than doubled recently. It has offices in Providence, Austin, and San Diego, with maritime production operations in Rhode Island.
Former U.S. Representative Devin Nunes, who currently chairs the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, sits on Havoc's board.
Investors framed the round as a bet on autonomous systems becoming critical military infrastructure. "They've built a truly scalable collaborative autonomy platform that works across all domains, and the demand signal from the U.S. military speaks for itself," said Will Graves, chief investment officer at Boardman Bay Capital Management.
