Overland AI
Overland AI builds autonomous ground vehicles and off-road autonomy systems for defense operators. Its OverDrive stack, SPARK upfit kit and ULTRA AGV support tactical movement in GPS- and comms-degraded terrain, and a June 2026 APFIT production OTA funds autonomous vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps MADIS program.
Market context
Overland AI builds autonomous ground vehicles and off-road autonomy systems for defense operators. Its OverDrive stack, SPARK upfit kit and ULTRA AGV support tactical movement in GPS- and comms-degraded terrain, and a June 2026 APFIT production OTA funds autonomous vehicles for the U. S. Marine Corps MADIS program.
Facts
- Website: https://www.overland.ai/
- HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Founded: 2022
- Segment: defense robotics
- Known funding rounds: 2
Investors
- 8VC - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-01-13 - latest 2026-02-03
- Ascend Venture Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-01-13 - latest 2026-02-03
- Overmatch Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-01-13 - latest 2026-02-03
- Point72 Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-01-13 - latest 2026-02-03
- Shasta Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-01-13 - latest 2026-02-03
- StepStone Group - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-03
- Valor Equity Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-03
- Caprock - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-01-13
- Osage University Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-01-13
Commercial
1 commercial event; 1 contract award; latest event 2026-06-29
- 2026-06-29 - Contract award - Overland AI wins $20M APFIT production OTA for U.S. Marine Corps autonomous ground vehicles - source: globenewswire.com
Off-road autonomy company
Overland AI develops off-road autonomy stacks, vehicle upfit systems and autonomous ground vehicles for defense land operations.
- Target environment: Defense field operations, degraded terrain, off-road routes, littoral environments and contested ground-mobility missions.
- Deployment model: Autonomy software, modular upfit hardware and in-house autonomous ground vehicles applied to military ground platforms.
- Customer context: Military users, defense agencies, ground-vehicle programs and operators needing autonomous mobility in natural terrain.
- Workflow context: Off-road navigation, autonomous maneuver, tactical C2, vehicle retrofitting, resupply, counter-UAS support and operator risk reduction.
- Commercial maturity: Production contract and field-demonstration stage, with APFIT funding for Marine Corps MADIS vehicles and prior Army, Marine Corps and CAL FIRE evaluations.
- Market position: Defense ground-autonomy builder focused on rugged off-road mobility rather than warehouse AMRs or road autonomy.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on terrain reliability, military validation, communications resilience, platform compatibility, safety and procurement cycles.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes UGV builders, off-road navigation stacks, tactical ground robotics and military vehicle retrofit systems.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-06-29 - Contract Award - Overland AI wins $20M APFIT production OTA for U.S. Marine Corps autonomous ground vehicles - The award comes through the APFIT program with PM Ground Based Air Defense, U.S. Marine Corps, and is framed as a production OTA agreement. The contract funds autonomous ground vehicles in support of the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS. Overlan…
- 2026-05-14 - Demonstration - Overland AI demonstrates ULTRA combat capabilities during African Lion 2026 - The exercise ran April 20 through May 8 at the Cap Draa Training Area during U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual joint exercise. Overland trained soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and 7th Engineer Brigade and Marines from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion…
- 2026-04-23 - Demonstration - Overland AI demonstrates autonomous ground capability for USMC ROGUE Fires - The prototype used OverDrive and SPARK to support autonomous maneuver in expeditionary, GPS-denied and comms-denied environments. Overland said the ROGUE Fires prototype operated without human intervention over mixed terrain for several hours. The demonstrati…
- 2026-03-11 - Partnership - Hoverfly Technologies and Overland AI expand collaboration on integrated air-ground unmanned capabilities - Overland AI and Hoverfly expanded their collaboration to pair Hoverfly's tethered UAS platforms with autonomous ground maneuver from Overland's ULTRA and OverDrive stack. The combined system was presented as a multi-domain unmanned capability for persistent s…
- 2026-02-03 - Funding - Overland AI raises $100M to scale ground autonomy with U.S. Armed Forces - Overland AI announced $100M in new funding to scale operations with end users across the U.S. Armed Forces. The total included an equity round led by 8VC and a $20M venture debt facility from TriplePoint Capital. The company said the capital would support man…
- 2026-01-20 - Demonstration - CAL FIRE and Overland AI lead first evaluation of autonomous ground vehicles for wildfire response - Overland AI and CAL FIRE demonstrated autonomous resupply, mobile overwatch, and wildfire logistics using two ULTRA vehicles at Camp Pendleton. The vehicles autonomously delivered supplies across austere terrain and repositioned to elevated ground for future…
- 2025-04-14 - Product Launch - Overland AI unveils ULTRA, a fully autonomous tactical vehicle for ground operations - Overland AI launched ULTRA as its fully autonomous tactical vehicle built around OverDrive, SPARK, and modular payload support. The company positioned ULTRA for reconnaissance, counter-UAS, resupply, humanitarian logistics, and contested ground operations in…
- 2025-03-27 - Demonstration - Overland AI showcases its fully autonomous tactical vehicle at an Army Applications Lab demo - Overland AI demonstrated its fully autonomous tactical vehicle at an Army Applications Lab experimentation event attended by combat engineers from multiple Army and Marine Corps units. The demonstration showed the vehicle using OverDrive and OverWatch to plan…
- 2025-03-18 - Product Launch - Overland AI launches SPARK to deliver vehicle autonomy to military fleets - Overland AI launched SPARK as a modular autonomy upfit that combines OverDrive with sensors, compute, communications, and drive-by-wire infrastructure. The company positioned SPARK as a way to convert existing ground vehicles into autonomous platforms without…
- 2025-03-17 - Facility Opening - Overland AI opens a new factory in Seattle for advanced ground autonomy manufacturing - Overland AI opened a new factory in Seattle to manufacture off-road autonomous vehicles and autonomy systems at greater scale. The facility-opening milestone sat alongside the company's SPARK and ULTRA launches as it moved from autonomy software toward in-hou…
- 2025-01-21 - Product Launch - Overland AI unveils OverWatch command-and-control software for tactical ground autonomy - Overland AI launched OverWatch as an operator-facing command-and-control interface for coordinating fleets of OverDrive-enabled ground vehicles. The software was designed for mission planning, tactical swarming, and communicating intent to autonomous ground s…
- 2025-01-13 - Funding - Overland AI raises $32M Series A to advance ground autonomy for U.S. defense forces - Overland AI announced a $32M Series A to accelerate adoption of ground autonomy for defense and national security. The round was led by 8VC, with Point72 Ventures, Overmatch Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Ascend, Osage University Partners and Caprock participatin…
- 2024-01-10 - Award - Overland AI is awarded an $18.6M-ceiling prototype OT for U.S. Army robotic combat vehicle autonomy - Overland AI said it received an $18.6M-ceiling prototype other-transaction award to develop autonomous navigation for the U.S. Army's Robotic Combat Vehicle program. The award tied the company's off-road autonomy stack directly to one of the Army's core auton…
Team
- Byron Boots - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer - Provides the company’s core robot-learning and off-road autonomy leadership after years of Army Research Laboratory collaboration.
- Stephanie Bonk - Co-founder and President - Leads product and commercial software execution as Overland scales ground autonomy with military users.
- Greg Okopal - Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer - Connects Overland’s autonomy stack to defense program execution, fielding and applied autonomy transition.
- Jon Fink - Chief Technology Officer - Adds Army autonomy-stack and field robotics leadership to Overland’s tactical ground-vehicle roadmap.
- Ben Barocas - Chief Financial Officer - Supports financing, growth and corporate execution as Overland scales manufacturing and field support for military customers.
Supply chain relationships
- Hoverfly Technologies - Air Ground Unmanned Integration - Overland AI and Hoverfly Technologies expanded an air-ground unmanned collaboration pairing ULTRA and OverDrive with Hoverfly tethered UAS platforms.
Context tags
- Tactical off-road autonomy - Workflow - Overland enables tactical off-road autonomous mobility.
- Tactical ground robot OEM - Stack Layer - Overland builds autonomous tactical ground robot systems.
- Off-road mobility autonomy - Capability - Overland provides off-road mobility autonomy.
- Autonomous tactical ground vehicle builder - Peer Group - Overland builds autonomous off-road tactical ground vehicles.
- Off-road defence autonomy stack - Peer Group - Overland provides off-road defence autonomy stacks.
- Autonomous mission execution - Capability - Overland supports autonomous mission execution.
- Mission autonomy software - Stack Layer - Overland provides mission autonomy software.
- Contested defence environments - Customer Environment - Overland systems operate in contested environments.
- Tactical ground operations - Customer Environment - Overland serves tactical ground operations.
Customers and deployments
- Facility Opening - Seattle factory for ground autonomy manufacturing - 2025-03-17 - Seattle factory - ground autonomy manufacturing - Overland AI opened a Seattle factory to manufacture off-road autonomous vehicles and…
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