Preferred equity financing · $500M
$500M fixed-return preferred equity financing.
Physical AI · Private company · Deployment
Shield AI
✓ VerifiedShield AI is one of the clearest examples of real-world AI deployment in defense autonomy, pairing hardware systems with its Hivemind autonomy stack.
San Diego, USFounded 2015No public API trackedDaily review
Editorial intelligence brief
What matters now
Advanced V-BAT operational deployment and X-BAT propulsion work in July 2026 while demonstrating Hivemind autonomous teaming.
Focus: Autonomous defense systems and AI software for aircraft and drone operations in contested environments.
Latest funding
$1.5B
Series G · source-backed
Tracked funding
$2B
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Deployment lifecycle position
Source-backed financial history
Capital and commercial trajectory
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
2
Tracked total
$2B
Coverage
partial
#1
Series G · $1.5B
Running tracked total: $1.5B
#2
Preferred equity financing · $500M
Running tracked total: $2B
Every numbered chart marker maps to one source-linked funding announcement below.
Shield AI ↗ source for Preferred equity financing $500M
Series G · $1.5B
$1.5B Series G.
Chronological activity
What changed
Advanced V-BAT operational deployment and X-BAT propulsion work in July 2026 while demonstrating Hivemind autonomous teaming.
A structured event record is still being assembled for this company.
Recent coverage of Shield AI
Consolidated by storySimulation and sensor-modeling technology firm acquired by Shield AI
Military Embedded Systems · 2 related sources · Jun 23
Greece Eyes AI Pilot for Unmanned Systems With Shield AI Partnership
The Defense Post · Jun 22
Shield AI expands Hivemind maritime autonomy in Taiwan with Thunder Tiger partnership
Shield AI · May 12
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
No standalone model family is structured for this profile.
Products
HivemindV-BATX-BAT
Open weights
No
API access
No
Review cadence
Daily
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
Autonomous defense systems and AI software for aircraft and drone operations in contested environments.
Signals
Defense AIAutonomyDrones
Taxonomy
defenseRoboticsautonomy
Competitive context
AndurilSkydioHelsing
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Shield AI sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
No standalone model family tracked
02
Access layer
Application or managed product
03
Market layer
Physical AI
Public product surface
HivemindV-BATX-BAT
Stack signals
defenseRoboticsautonomyDefense AIAutonomyDrones
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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