Facts

• Segment: Maritime
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2025
• Website: https://www.albacore.inc

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Albacore builds drone submarines for defence applications. The Philadelphia company is a Y Combinator S25 startup developing uncrewed underwater systems for maritime missions.

Market context

Albacore builds uncrewed underwater vehicles for defence and maritime missions, positioning the company in the AUV / subsea autonomy builder lane rather than general marine software.

Facts

• Website: https://www.albacore.inc
• HQ: Philadelphia, United States
• Founded: 2025
• Segment: Maritime
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2025-10-16 - Seed - $7M - Albacore raises $6.5M seed round for long-range UUVs - source: tectonicdefense.com

Investors

• 468 Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• Alumni Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• BoxGroup - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• Brave Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• D3 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• Heliad - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• Karman Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• Outlander VC - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• Pioneer Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16
• UA1 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-16

Events

• 2025-10-16 - Funding - Albacore raises $6.5M seed round for long-range UUVs - Outlander VC led the round with participation from Brave Capital, D3, Alumni Ventures and other defense-tech investors.

Team

• John Huddleston - Founder
• Dante Vaisbort - Founder

Relationships

• lead investor - Outlander VC led Albacore seed funding.
• investor - Brave Capital participated in Albacore seed funding.

Context tags

• Maritime subsea autonomy builder - Peer Group - Company profile and official website context support Maritime subsea autonomy builder.
• Subsea robotics - Peer Group - Company profile and official website context support Subsea robotics.