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Shield AI is a US defense technology company building autonomous systems, including AI-piloted drones and its Hivemind autonomy software for military use.
Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia put $600m into Mach Industries at $3.7bn, three months after $300m at $1.8bn. On those marks the second cheque takes 16.2 per cent of the company and the first took 16.7.
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Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia have put another $600m into Mach Industries at more than double the valuation they themselves set three months ago, lifting the Series C to $900m and lifetime funding past $1bn.
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Lenders price collateral and contracted cash rather than addressable markets, which makes the split the story here, because REGENT has $15M of contracted Marine Corps work sitting behind $120M of borrowing and a $9bn pre-order book that pays nobody yet.
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Venture funding for robots, drones and sensors in H1 2026 beat the entire 2022-24 total, but deal count rose only 11 percent. The dollars are concentrating, not spreading.
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A $52mn seed closes with an $18mn top-up and a first office outside Africa. The argument that production can stay put now rests on a $100mn bookings number.
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The Nigerian defence-tech company added $18M and a London office. The load-bearing number is a 34,000 sq ft Ghana plant due in Q4 2026, promising 50,000 units a year by 2028.
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