Defense Unicorns has raised $136 million in Series B funding and reached a valuation exceeding $1 billion.
How Will Defense Unicorns Use the Funding?
The San Antonio, Texas-based company said Tuesday that the capital will support further development of Unicorn Delivery Service, or UDS, a portable, airgap-native runtime platform for packaging, deploying and sustaining mission applications; UDS Registry, a software registry to secure the software supply chain; and UDS Army, which combines secure DevSecOps pipelines with pre-authorized cloud environments to rapidly deliver mission-ready software to soldiers.
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“Defense Unicorns gives our nation a wartime software advantage,” Rob Slaughter, CEO of Defense Unicorns, commented. “The U.S. has significant commercial software advantages, but the systems we go to war with are typically outdated. At Defense Unicorns, we make software a strategic deterrent by making it easy to deploy and operate software in any mission environment.”
Bain Capital’s Tech Opportunities led the funding round. Ansa Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, AVP, Uncorrelated Ventures and former CIA Director David H. Petraeus also participated.
Defense Unicorns secured $35 million during its Series A funding round in 2024.
What Is Defense Unicorns?
Founded in 2021, Defense Unicorns is a veteran-owned company that develops software to meet the needs of the DOW.
The firm won a $15 million Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, agreement from SpaceWERX in 2024 to update IT systems and software applications at U.S. Space Force ranges that support rocket launches.
In a September interview with DefenseScoop, Slaughter shared that the UDS Registry is already in use by over 30 mission systems and organizations across the military.
Defense Unicorns has earned Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Level 2 designation, giving the company the authority to handle controlled unclassified information.
