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Adarga

London, UK · Founded 2016

Adarga builds AI software that extracts, fuses and analyses large volumes of text and other data for defence, security and intelligence analysts. Its customers include the UK Ministry of Defence, and it has a US subsidiary in Herndon, Virginia.

Profile

What it builds and who buys it

  • ·Adarga launched Vantage, an intelligence and investigations product, in 2023, and its Sovereign AI Stack for defence, security and resilience in 2026.Adarga (company site)
  • ·The stack has three layers: Mission (agents and tools), Catalyst (multimodal data fusion) and Keystone (deployment on hyperscale, on-premises or edge hardware).Adarga (company site)
  • ·In July 2025 Defence Support, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, renewed its use of Vantage for several years and added applied AI services to identify threats to military supply chains.ADS Advance, Jul 14, 2025
  • ·That contract sits under an Enterprise Agreement Lite worth up to £12 million, which the UK Defence Secretary announced in May 2025.ADS Advance, Jul 14, 2025
  • ·Adarga acquired J2X Solutions, a US strategic risk intelligence firm, in June 2024.Asia Pacific Defence Reporter, Jun 17, 2024
  • ·Its customers in 2023 included the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, and it had expanded into Australia and the US.BusinessCloud, May 21, 2023
  • ·The company says it built its first natural language processing pipeline in 2016 and has moved from knowledge graphs to transformer models and agents.Adarga (company blog), Jul 20, 2026

Founders and leadership

  • Rob Bassett CrossFounder and chief executive

    A former British Army officer and special operations specialist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded the Military Cross.TechCrunch, Sep 9, 2019

Funding

Last valuation

No citable valuation

Last round or tender

$20Mraised

Funding roundSilicon Canals, May 18, 2023

Led by BOKA Group. The company announced $20 million; BusinessCloud reported the round as £16 million. No valuation was stated.

Latest revenue figure

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Valuation to revenue

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Post-money valuation by round

Fewer than two dated figures on file to plot; the table carries what there is.

DateRoundRaisedPost-money
May 18, 2023Funding roundLed by BOKA Group. The company announced $20 million; BusinessCloud reported the round as £16 million. No valuation was stated.$20M—
Sep 9, 2019Series A£5 million, not converted to US dollars. TechCrunch reported the round as closed and led by Allectus Capital. No valuation was stated.——

Primary capital across the rounds on file: $20M

Revenue

No citable revenue figure on file.

Secondary venues

  • Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

    No price on the public page.

    No public MarketPrice. The page says no recent secondary market data is available and shows only Caplight’s last-round figures: a VC round dated May 21, 2025 and an $87.9 million estimated valuation, an aggregator’s figures with no company or press confirmation on file.

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Reads

Tracked only. No read has been prepared for this company; the figures above are the record.

Sources

Researched Oct 15, 2026