Alternatives to DARPA

The top Defense companies similar to DARPA, ranked by relevance (named competitors first, then how closely their sectors overlap) and our 0-100 AI-readiness score. Each links to a full profile with funding and team.

Open source alternatives to DARPA (60) →

Company	Sector	HQ	Funding	Score
Booz Allen Hamilton	Defense	McLean, USA	—	28
FOFounders Fund	Venture Capital	San Francisco, USA	$19.9B	85
WekaIO	Computing	Campbell, United States	$565.0M	70
Gecko Robotics	Robotics	Pittsburgh, United States	$125.0M	69
ISIsembard	Manufacturing	Bristol, United Kingdom	$59.0M	65
Swarm Aero	Aerospace	Oxnard, United States	$35.0M	63
LELeibniz Supercomputing Centre	Artificial Intelligence	Garching, Germany	$587.7M	63
Zapata Quantum	Quantum Computing	Boston, USA	$89.1M	62
ALAllen Institute for AI	Artificial Intelligence	Seattle, USA	$63.0M	62
Elicit	Artificial Intelligence	Oakland, United States	$31.0M	62
Scout AI	Defense	San Francisco, USA	$100.0M	61
C3 AI	Artificial Intelligence	Redwood City, United States	$1.0B	61
ARARIA	Government	London, UK	$19.4M	60
SPSPRIND	Artificial Intelligence	Europe	$125.0M	60
SkyfireAI	Aerospace	Austin, USA	$19.5M	59
Cosine	Artificial Intelligence	United Kingdom	$4.5M	56
BLBlackSky	Geospatial Intelligence	Herndon, USA	$214.5M	56
EGIDE	Defense	Paris, France	$8.0M	55
EXExoAnalytic Solutions	Aerospace	Foothill Ranch, United States	$63.0M	55
Founders Factory	Venture Capital	London, United Kingdom	$63.0M	55
Stanhope AI	Artificial Intelligence	London, United Kingdom	$6.7M	54
Autoscience Institute	Artificial Intelligence	San Francisco, USA	$24.5M	54
SCScience Applications International	Government	Reston, United States	$59.0M	54
Rilian	Cybersecurity	McLean, USA	$27.5M	54
Ada Ventures	Venture Capital	London, United Kingdom	$63.0M	53
Quinas Technology	Semiconductors	London, United Kingdom	$4.2M	53
64645 Ventures	Venture Capital	New York, USA	$63.0M	52
BluWireless Technology	Semiconductors	Bristol, United Kingdom	$16.6M	51
PRPresto Ventures II	Venture Capital	Bratislava, Slovakia	$225.0M	51
MIMirai Robotics	Robotics	Puglia, Italy	$4.1M	51
ANAntler	Venture Capital	Singapore, Singapore	$63.0M	50
DesignVerse	Enterprise Software	Bucharest, Romania	$5.5M	50
QuEra Computing	Quantum Computing	Boston, USA	$14.0M	50
Mamba Growth Management Company LLC	Growth Equity	Stamford, United States	$28.5M	50
Air Street Capital	Venture Capital	London, United Kingdom	$232.0M	50
SaySo	Social Media	New York, USA	$63.0M	49
Project A Ventures	Venture Capital	Berlin, Germany	$63.0M	48
SMSmack Technologies	Artificial Intelligence	—	$32.0M	47
Quartermaster	Maritime Technology	Arlington, USA	$42.0M	46
NANATO Innovation Fund	Defense	Amsterdam, Netherlands	$1.0B	45
NGA Luno	Geospatial Intelligence	Washington, United States	$63.0M	45
SASamaipata	Venture Capital	Madrid, Spain	$110.0M	43
BuzzFeed	Media	New York, USA	$200.0M	43
Hoxton Ventures	Venture Capital	London, United Kingdom	$63.0M	43
Molfar Defence Technologies	Defense	Warsaw, Poland	$1.5M	42
GEGeneral Robotics	Robotics	Tel Aviv, Israel	—	42
MUMutable Tactics	Artificial Intelligence	Cambridge, United Kingdom	$1.8M	42
MAMaXon Systems	Aerospace	Tel Aviv, Israel	—	41
UKUK Government AI Lab	Artificial Intelligence	United Kingdom	$40.0M	41
Frenel Imaging	Imaging	—	—	40
Cloud Native Computing Foundation	Cloud Computing	Irvine, United States	—	35
ATAtlas Ventures	Venture Capital	Boston, USA	$63.0M	35
OCOccam	Defense	London, United Kingdom	$3.0M	34
WHWholeSum	Analytics	United Kingdom	$335K	32
ACAccel	Venture Capital	Palo Alto, United States	$19.6B	29
DEDepartment of Defense	Government	Arlington, USA	—	21
Vanagon Ventures	Venture Capital	Munich, Germany	—	20
JK Invest	Venture Capital	Brussels, Belgium	—	17
Sigeta	Software Development	Thirsk, United Kingdom	—	15
BugRaptors	Software Testing	—	—	13