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Scout AI
Sunnyvale, CA · Founded 2024
Scout AI builds Fury, a vision-language-action foundation model that drives and commands unmanned ground, air, sea and space systems. It sells Fury as a software layer over other makers’ vehicles, with Ox, a command-and-control orchestrator for mixed fleets.
Profile
What it builds and who buys it
- ·Fury runs on as little as one commercial camera and a low-power inference chip, so it can be fitted to existing robots without new sensors such as lidar or radar.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 16, 2025
- ·In August 2025 the US Army awarded Scout a contract under its Unmanned Systems initiative to integrate Fury onto Army Infantry Squad Vehicles over 16 months, after which the Army may buy units worth up to $150 million.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Aug 29, 2025
- ·Textron Systems leads vehicle integration for Scout on the Army program, and Edge Case Research provides independent safety validation.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Aug 29, 2025
- ·NOMAD, an unmanned ground vehicle from Hendrick Motorsports Technical Solutions, runs on Fury and introduced a second-generation hardware stack more than 90% smaller.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Sep 2, 2025
- ·In February 2026 Scout showed Fury Orchestrator planning a mission from a commander’s intent and tasking a ground vehicle and several drones in natural language, with a human approving the plan.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Feb 18, 2026
- ·The company says it booked $11 million in contracts with the Department of War in its first year and had a 34-person team in April 2026.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 29, 2026
- ·TechCrunch reported that the contracts came from DARPA, the Army Applications Laboratory and other defense customers, and that Scout is one of 20 autonomy companies whose technology the 1st Cavalry Division uses at Fort Hood.TechCrunch, Apr 29, 2026
- ·Scout trains its models on all-terrain vehicles at Foundry, its own range on a military base in central California.TechCrunch, Apr 29, 2026
Founders and leadership
- Colby AdcockCo-founder and chief executive
A former technology private equity executive and a board member of the humanoid robot maker Figure AI.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 16, 2025
- Collin OtisCo-founder and chief technology officer
A founding engineer and director of autonomy and AI at Kodiak Robotics, and earlier head of data science and chief of staff at Uber ATG. He sold a venture-backed startup to Target.Scout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 16, 2025
Funding
- Last valuation
No citable valuation
- Last round or tender
$100Mraised
Series AScout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 29, 2026
Co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, with Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, Disruptive Founders Fund and Vaughn Capital Partners. The company calls it the largest defense-tech Series A in US history. No valuation was stated.
- Latest revenue figure
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Post-money valuation by round
Fewer than two dated figures on file to plot; the table carries what there is.
| Date | Round | Raised | Post-money |
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| Apr 29, 2026 | Series ACo-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, with Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, Disruptive Founders Fund and Vaughn Capital Partners. The company calls it the largest defense-tech Series A in US history. No valuation was stated. | $100M | — |
| Apr 16, 2025 | SeedAnnounced as the company left stealth. Led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures, with Draper Associates, Decisive Point Ventures, Perot Jain, Sigmas Group, Evolution VC and others. TechCrunch dates the seed round to January 2025. No valuation was stated. | $15M | — |
Primary capital across the rounds on file: $115M
Revenue
No citable revenue figure on file.
Secondary venues
- Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026
No price on the public page.
Listed as Scout AI Inc. under the slug scoutco, linking scoutco.ai. No public MarketPrice: historical pricing is behind a login, and the page says no recent secondary market data is available.
- Nasdaq Private Marketpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026
No price on the public page.
Links scoutco.ai. Neither the page title nor its text shows a per-share figure; it labels the April 2026 round Series A-1 and the 2025 seed Series A, with prices masked.
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Reads
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Sources
- Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcampTechCrunch, Apr 29, 2026
- Scout AI Raises $100M Series A to Build the AI Brain for Unmanned WarfareScout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 29, 2026
- Scout AI Introduces Fury Autonomous Vehicle OrchestratorScout AI (release via PR Newswire), Feb 18, 2026
- Scout AI Partners with Hendrick Motorsports Technical Solutions on NOMAD - Defense UGV Automated by FuryScout AI (release via PR Newswire), Sep 2, 2025
- Scout AI Awarded Army UxS Autonomy ContractScout AI (release via PR Newswire), Aug 29, 2025
- Scout AI Emerges from Stealth with $15M Seed Round, Lands 2 DoD Contracts, and Unveils Fury - Robotic Foundation Model for DefenseScout AI (release via PR Newswire), Apr 16, 2025
- Scout AI – CompanyScout AI (company site)
Researched Oct 15, 2026