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Aventra

Herndon, Virginia · Founded 2025

Aventra builds Piranha, a glider released from a high-altitude balloon that carries a small bomb or sensors to a target under autonomous guidance. Tectonic reported in October 2026 that it had delivered hundreds of them to US and NATO customers.

Profile

What it builds and who buys it

  • ·Piranha is a modular payload glider dropped from a balloon at up to 80,000 feet. The company gives its total range, balloon and glide, as 1,000 km.Aventra (company site)
  • ·Piranha takes a munition built for it by an undisclosed partner, is floated to 60,000 feet and dropped, and glides about 100 miles from release, chief executive Michael Weigand told Tectonic. A human in the loop can change or abort the strike over an in-house relay.Tectonic, Oct 5, 2026
  • ·The company says its Piranha glider kit costs 100 to 400 times less than comparable long-range precision munitions, and that its terminal guidance does not depend on GPS.Aventra (company release), Oct 1, 2025
  • ·The 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force evaluated Piranha with soldiers at Arcane Thunder 26, from April 6 to April 29, 2026, across ISR and precision-effects configurations.Aventra (company release), Apr 27, 2026
  • ·Washington Technology reported that Piranha has delivered payloads and supported ISR operations across 400 flights.Washington Technology, Oct 8, 2026
  • ·Weigand told Tectonic the company makes 35 Piranhas a month and that a new Virginia plant, Factory Zero, will take that to about 500 a month. He said its revenue is split between US and NATO customers.Tectonic, Oct 5, 2026

Founders and leadership

  • Michael WeigandChief executive and co-founder

    An Army veteran, Washington Technology reported.Washington Technology, Oct 8, 2026

  • Brian RetherfordCo-founder

    An Army veteran, Washington Technology reported.Washington Technology, Oct 8, 2026

  • Jessup MengCo-founder

    An Army veteran, Washington Technology reported.Washington Technology, Oct 8, 2026

Funding

Last valuation

No citable valuation

Last round or tender

$17.5Mraised

Funding roundTectonic, Oct 5, 2026

Led by Konvoy Ventures, with Lavrock Ventures and new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Sands Capital, Langford Industries and Western Alliance Bank. Defense Daily called it a strategic funding round, and Washington Technology reported that it includes a funding facility from Western Alliance Bank; no cited source splits the facility from the equity. 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
Oct 5, 2026Funding roundLed by Konvoy Ventures, with Lavrock Ventures and new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Sands Capital, Langford Industries and Western Alliance Bank. Defense Daily called it a strategic funding round, and Washington Technology reported that it includes a funding facility from Western Alliance Bank; no cited source splits the facility from the equity. No valuation was stated.$18M—
Oct 1, 2025SeedLed by Lavrock Ventures, as the company emerged from stealth. No valuation was stated.$3M—

Primary capital across the rounds on file: $20.5M

Revenue

No citable revenue figure on file.

Secondary venues

  • Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

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Reads

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Sources

Researched Oct 15, 2026