Twentyfour Industries
Twentyfour Industries designs, manufactures and deploys European drones for defence users. The Munich company delivered revenue-generating contracts and hundreds of 10-inch quadcopters in 2025 and is building manufacturing, training and lifecycle-support capacity for allied operators.
Market context
Twentyfour Industries is a clean fit for the emerging European sovereign small-UAS stack: real hardware, real production language, and a clearly surfaced deployable product built for defence customers.
Facts
- Website: https://twentyfour.industries/
- HQ: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Founded: 2024
- Segment: defense robotics
- Known funding rounds: 1
Investors
- 468 Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-19
- Lakestar - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-19
- OTB Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-19
German defence drone company
Twentyfour Industries develops sovereign small UAS platforms for European defence and security customers.
- Target environment: Defence field operations, reconnaissance routes, tactical airspace, training areas and European security missions.
- Deployment model: Defence drone development and supply focused on European production and sovereign UAS capability.
- Customer context: European defence customers, security agencies, military operators and procurement bodies seeking small tactical drones.
- Workflow context: Reconnaissance, ISR, tactical drone operation, field surveillance and defence training support.
- Commercial maturity: Early-stage defence drone company with public positioning around sovereign European small-UAS production.
- Market position: German defence robotics company focused on small UAS for European security needs.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on operational validation, defence procurement, production scale, airworthiness, component supply and integration with military workflows.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes European defence drones, small UAS, tactical ISR, sovereign drone supply and field robotics.
- Source confidence: medium
Events
- 2026-05-26 - Executive Hire - Twentyfour appoints General Sir Chris Deverell as strategic advisor - Deverell joined Twentyfour after more than 40 years of military leadership, including responsibility for special forces, cyber and defence intelligence. His defence-acquisition experience covers operational use, requirements setting, budget planning, procurem…
- 2026-05-13 - Demonstration - Twentyfour demonstrates Merops counter-UAS interceptor to German Armed Forces - The demonstration introduced the Merops low-cost counter-drone interceptor to German Armed Forces personnel at the Erding Tech Show. Twentyfour described its work with Perennial Autonomy as spanning European manufacturing, system deployment and soldier traini…
- 2026-01-19 - Production Milestone - Twentyfour Industries emerges from stealth after moving from drone design into production and field deployment - Twentyfour moved from incorporation in late 2024 to product design, production and field deployment of its first drone platform in less than a year. Its first system is a mass-manufacturable, multi-mission 10-inch quadcopter, with hundreds of units manufactur…
- 2026-01-19 - Funding - Twentyfour Industries discloses $11.8M financing from Lakestar, OTB Ventures, and 468 Capital - A US$11.8 million financing from Lakestar, OTB Ventures and 468 Capital closed in summer 2025, eight months after Twentyfour Industries incorporated. By the January 2026 disclosure, the company had designed its first drone, manufactured and deployed hundreds…
Team
- Clemens Kürten - Co-Founder and CEO
- Erik Linden - Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer
- General Sir Chris Deverell - Strategic Advisor
Relationships
- Perennial Autonomy - European C UAS Manufacturing And Deployment Partner - Twentyfour and Perennial Autonomy are working on European manufacturing, deployment and soldier training for the Merops counter-UAS interceptor.
Context tags
- Defence drone OEM - Stack Layer - Twentyfour manufactured and deployed hundreds of its own 10-inch quadcopters.
- Military UAV Builder - Peer Group - Twentyfour designs and manufactures drones for European defence users.
- Defense unmanned systems - Peer Group - The company supplies unmanned systems to European soldiers and allied partners.
Customers and deployments
- Manufactured And Deployed Units - hundreds of Q-X units manufactured and deployed - 2026-01-19 - European customers - 10-inch quadcopter operations - Twentyfour Industries said it had manufactured and deployed hundreds…
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