Scout AI is a Silicon Valley company founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis that positions itself as an AI lab focused on the reasoning layer for unmanned military systems rather than on manufacturing or integration. Its core product, Fury, is a foundation model built for the tactical edge that enables layered orchestration from command and control down to individual unmanned systems across air, land, sea and space domains. The company also unveiled Ox, a command-and-control-based autonomous vehicle orchestrator, and publicly demonstrated a fully autonomous end-to-end strike mission executed by AI agents. In its first year Scout AI booked $11 million in contracts with the U.S. Department of War and grew to a 34-person team drawn from AI, robotics and national security backgrounds.
Funding
Scout AI announced an oversubscribed $100 million Series A on 29 April 2026, co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates. Other participants included 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 described it as the largest defense-tech Series A in U.S. history.