Facts

• Segment: Defense
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2024
• Website: https://havocai.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Havoc develops collaborative autonomy systems and autonomous maritime platforms for defence and commercial missions. Its software and vessels support domain awareness, contested logistics, escort, electronic-warfare and strike roles across scalable fleets of unmanned surface systems.

Market context

Havoc is one of the faster-scaling US defence autonomy companies in the unmanned maritime lane. Its public disclosures show fielded ASVs, DoD deliveries, shipbuilding partnerships, acquisitions into air and land autonomy, and a large 2026 Series A that moves it from USV startup toward all-domain autonomy supplier. Independent company founded in 2024. Havoc builds collaborative autonomy systems for unmanned platforms across sea, air and land.

• Capability: Autonomous surface vessels. Collaborative swarm autonomy. Edge decision-making and vessel control. Command-and-control software. Contested logistics and domain awareness. Multi-domain autonomy integration
• Strategic position: Fast-scaling US defence autonomy company in the unmanned maritime lane. Moving from USV startup toward all-domain collaborative autonomy supplier

Products

• Atlas mUSV
• Kaikoa
• Rampage

Facts

• Website: https://havocai.com/
• HQ: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: Defense
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2026-05-12 - Series A - $100M - Havoc raises USD 100M Series A for all-domain collaborative autonomy - source: prnewswire.com
• 2025-10-09 - Growth round - $85M - HavocAI raises USD 85M to scale autonomous vessel production - source: finance.yahoo.com

Investors

• B Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-10-09 - latest 2026-05-12
• Lockheed Martin - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-10-09 - latest 2026-05-12
• Taiwania Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-10-09 - latest 2026-05-12
• Boardman Bay Capital Management - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• CCM Capital Markets - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Clear Street LLC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Cobalt Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• JA Green - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Meet Perry - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Mute Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Outlander VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• SAIC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Scout VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Soren Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• The Veteran Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• UP.Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Vanderbilt University endowment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-12
• Hanwha - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• In-Q-Tel - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• Island Green Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• Outlander Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• Scout Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• Up Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• Vanderbilt University - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09
• Zero Infinity Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-09

Defence autonomy and unmanned vessel builder

Havoc develops collaborative autonomy systems and modular unmanned vessels for defence and commercial missions across maritime and broader contested environments.

• Target environment: Maritime defence operations, contested logistics, domain awareness missions, electronic warfare contexts and autonomous vessel programs.
• Deployment model: Defence autonomy platforms, modular autonomous vessels and software-defined hardware supplied to military and commercial customers.
• Customer context: Defence customers, naval operators, military procurement bodies and commercial operators needing autonomous mission systems.
• Workflow context: Autonomous vessel operations, fleet coordination, domain awareness, logistics support, electronic warfare support and distributed mission execution.
• Commercial maturity: Fast-scaling defence autonomy company with significant funding and public product families, but still early relative to established defence primes.
• Market position: Defence autonomy builder focused on scalable collaborative unmanned systems, led by maritime platforms.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on defence procurement, maritime testing, fleet reliability, mission payload integration, production scale and operational validation.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes unmanned surface vessels, collaborative autonomy, defence robotics and attritable autonomous systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-23 - Demonstration - Havoc to demonstrate autonomous surface-vessel logistics at RIMPAC 2026 - The demonstration will support autonomous resupply of U.S. and allied surface vessels during a multinational maritim…
• 2026-06-15 - Partnership - Havoc and AZAK sign MoU for high-mobility autonomous ground systems - The agreement expands Havoc’s all-domain autonomy work into high-mobility ground systems.
• 2026-05-12 - Funding - Havoc raises USD 100M Series A for all-domain collaborative autonomy - Havoc raised a $100M Series A for all-domain collaborative autonomy systems.
• 2026-04-20 - Partnership - Leidos and Havoc integrate autonomy for maritime and air systems - Leidos and Havoc announced integration work around maritime and air autonomy.
• 2026-03-11 - Acquisition - Havoc acquires Mavrik and Teleo to expand all-domain autonomy - Havoc acquired Mavrik and Teleo.
• 2026-02-03 - Partnership - HavocAI and Tideman partner on 20-foot autonomous surface vessel - HavocAI partnered with Tideman Marine on a 20-foot unmanned surface vessel.
• 2026-01-14 - Partnership - HavocAI and Hanwha partner on 200-foot autonomous surface vessels - HavocAI and Hanwha agreed to jointly develop 200-foot autonomous surface vessels.
• 2025-10-09 - Funding - HavocAI raises USD 85M to scale autonomous vessel production - HavocAI raised USD 85 million to accelerate autonomous vessel production and military sales.
• 2025-04-21 - Product Launch - HavocAI adds Seahound autonomous surface vessel to lineup - HavocAI previewed Seahound as a 38-foot autonomous vessel.

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-10-09 - Funding - HavocAI raises USD 85M to scale autonomous vessel production - HavocAI raised USD 85 million to accelerate autonomous vessel production and military sales.

Team

• Paul Lwin - CEO - Current operating leader for Havoc's defence autonomy platform as the company scales after major 2026 funding.

Relationships

• AZAK - Autonomous ground systems MoU - Havoc and AZAK signed an MoU to jointly produce high-mobility autonomous ground systems.

Context tags

• Defence customers - Customer Environment
• Defence robotics builder - Peer Group
• Defence robotic operations - Workflow
• Defence robot OEM - Stack Layer

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-12 - Havoc is turning autonomous vessels into an all-domain command layer - A 100 million dollar Series A round follows Mavrik and Teleo acquisitions, expanding Havoc from maritime autonomy into air and ground f…