Facts

• Segment: Defense
• Country: France
• Founded: 2025
• Website: https://www.egide-tech.com/

Profile sections

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

Summary

EGIDE designs and manufactures hermetic packages for electronic and photonic chips. Its ceramic-to-metal, glass-to-metal and HTCC packaging products protect high-reliability components used in aerospace, defence, medical, optoelectronics, infrared, RF, sensor and communications systems.

Market context

EGIDE is relevant as a defence autonomy company because it sits directly in the counter-unmanned systems layer rather than generic defence software. It stands out for focusing on lower-cost, scalable interceptor systems aimed at drone-heavy modern conflict environments.

Facts

• Website: https://www.egide-tech.com/
• HQ: Paris, Île-de-France, France
• Founded: 2025
• Segment: Defense
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-03-23 - Seed - $9M - EGIDE raises €8M seed round to build affordable interceptor systems for modern warfare - source: tech.eu

Investors

• Eurazeo - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• Expeditions - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• Galion.exe - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• Heartcore Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• Kima Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23

Counter-drone interceptor company

EGIDE develops counter-drone interceptor systems for air-defence and protection against hostile small UAVs.

• Target environment: Critical infrastructure, military sites, protected airspace, public-event security and counter-UAS defence environments.
• Deployment model: Counter-drone platform development using interceptor systems and air-defence technology for security customers.
• Customer context: Defence users, security organizations, infrastructure operators and agencies needing drone threat mitigation.
• Workflow context: Drone detection response, interceptor launch, hostile UAV mitigation, airspace protection and low-altitude defence.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage counter-UAS company with interceptor product positioning. Scaling depends on interception reliability, threat coverage, safety approval, detection-system integration, and procurement tra…
• Market position: Counter-UAS company focused on interceptor systems for small-drone threats.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on interception reliability, safety, regulatory approval, procurement cycles, threat coverage and integration with detection systems.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes counter-UAS, interceptor drones, air-defence robotics, low-altitude security and critical infrastructure protection.
• Source confidence: low

Events

• 2026-03-23 - Funding - EGIDE raises €8M seed round to build affordable interceptor systems for modern warfare - EGIDE raised an €8 million seed round to develop affordable air-defence systems aimed at intercepting hosti…
• 2026-03-13 - Market Signal - EGIDE uses TechInnov 2026 appearance as market-visibility signal - EGIDE announced its participation at TechInnov 2026 through its official news page.
• 2026-03-12 - Market Signal - EGIDE joins France Deeptech event in Paris to discuss next-generation European counter-drone technologies - EGIDE announced participation in a France Deeptech event in Paris focused on next-…

Team

• Simon Calonne - CEO & Co-founder
• Florian Audigier - CTO & Co-founder

Relationships

• Investor - Expeditions is listed as an investor or backer of EGIDE.
• Investor - Eurazeo is listed as an investor or backer of EGIDE.
• Investor - Heartcore Capital is listed as an investor or backer of EGIDE.
• Investor - Galion.exe is listed as an investor or backer of EGIDE.
• Investor - Kima Ventures is listed as an investor or backer of EGIDE.