CX2 was founded in 2024 by Nathan Mintz, Porter Smith, Mark Trefgarne, and Lee Thompson, an experienced team drawn from across the defense and electronic-warfare world. Mintz previously spent 14 years as an EW and radar systems engineer at Raytheon and Boeing and co-founded Epirus, the directed-energy and counter-electronics defense unicorn, giving CX2 deep domain credibility from day one.
The company operates in the electronic-warfare and electromagnetic-spectrum-operations domain, building platforms that detect, disrupt, and defend across the electromagnetic spectrum. As modern conflict increasingly hinges on controlling the spectrum, jamming adversary communications and sensors while protecting one's own, CX2 positions itself to deliver these capabilities affordably and at scale.
CX2's product approach combines AI-enabled software with purpose-built hardware, including autonomous drones and specialty signals-intelligence payloads. Rather than embedding EW only in large, expensive aircraft and ships, the company seeks to 'unbundle' strategic electronic-warfare capability so it can be distributed across many smaller, attritable, and software-defined nodes operating across land, air, sea, and space.
In May 2025 CX2 raised a $31M Series A led by Point72 Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Pax Ventures, bringing total reported funding to roughly $46M. The round funds expansion of its electronic-warfare product line and growth of its engineering team as it pursues defense contracts in one of the fastest-moving segments of modern warfare.