Company profile

Albacore

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

Facts

Segment: DEFENSE
Country: US
Headquarters: Philadelphia
Founded: 2025
Website: https://www.albacore.inc

About Albacore

Albacore develops Ghostfin, an unmanned underwater vehicle designed for sensing, communications, logistics and defence missions. Its interchangeable payload sections allow the same vehicle architecture to support different equipment, while launch and recovery can be handled by a small team from a pier, beach or ordinary boat.

Ghostfin is intended to operate without a dedicated submarine-support vessel, extending Albacore's focus to deployable underwater systems for teams with limited marine infrastructure. The vehicle remains an early-stage system under development, with endurance and range stated as programme targets.

Market context

DEVELOPMENT

Summary

Type: Underwater drone builder

Core: Drone submarines

Function: Maritime autonomy

Audience: Defence users

Research, Articles and recent verified events

Albacore raises $6.5M seed round for long-range UUVs — 2025-10-16