Unmannd is a Bengaluru-based defence technology startup that has been able to raise a substantial round of funding, raising $2 million in pre-seed capital. This was a significant investment led by Speciale Invest and Accel, two leading venture capital firms. The magnitude of this pre-series capital listing makes the transaction one of the largest in the Indian deeptech defence industry of the current year, showing the considerable amount of trust investors have in the innovation behind the autonomous aerial systems that the startup is developing. 

Reflection of the funding round in the investment in Unmannd

Yeshwanth Reddy and Hemaditya Prasad founded Unmannd in February 2025. Unmannd is strategically oriented on the development of advanced autonomous aerial systems. These systems are purposefully programmed and fixed to essential tasks in the defence procedures, including advanced security measures as well as intricate logistics demands.

The funds collected will be directly used to fast-track the commercialisation process of the company and increase its technological capacity in this fast-moving industry, ensuring that it becomes one of the key players in the modern infrastructure arrangement in defence.

The closing of this round of $2 million is a pointer to a larger and growing trend of investor confidence in the India defence-technology ecosystem. Strategic interests and venture capital firms are both taking a special interest in the sector.

This is reflected in the investment in Unmannd, one of the largest pre-seed rounds in the deeptech defence sector this year. Logistics automation of Titan and aerial security of Fury are the two points of interest of the company, which fully respond to the strategic requirements of the modern armed forces.

Flagship products of Unmannd

Unmannd is a dual product company focusing on two very different but equally important requirements of modern military forces, namely logistics automation and aerial security. Its flagship platform, named Titan, is a heavy-lift drone, which is tailored towards efficient logistical operations.

Titan is designed to bear and transport critical supplies in defence situations where conventional ground modes of transport might be unsafe or ineffective. The Titan platform has already officially been certified by the Indian defence forces by attaining a significant milestone.

The ability of Titan to perform heavy lifting and delivery of supplies underscores the emphasis of the company to develop practical, production solutions to production challenges that are complicated logistically. The successful development and qualification of Titan demonstrates that Unmannd can provide advanced autonomous aerial systems fulfilling the high standards of national security missions.

Unmannd has introduced its second major product, the Fury system, to complement its heavy-lift drone to combat the increase in threats around the world by unfriendly aerial vehicles (UAVs). Fury is a modern drone interceptor aeroplane that is quite effective in air security. The system has impressive identification features that are, in fact, designed to identify the presence of an aggressive UAV at a very long distance, at least 30 kilometres from the location at which the system is in operation.

The Fury system can send high-speed interceptors to neutralise the incoming threat once it is detected. These interceptors are meant to move at high speeds up to 300 kilometres per hour (km/h).

The long-range identification, combined with the high-speed interception capabilities of Unmannd, makes it a powerful, leading-edge counter-UAV solution, providing a vital defence in depth to critical defence sites and operational areas. The Fury development proves that the company pays much attention to the creation of full-spectrum defence technology solutions.

Commitment to exploring new avenues to enter the international market

The $2 million pre-seed funding will be effectively deployed in four major areas that are critical in the transition of Unmannd between development and market scale. It is investing a part of the capital in fully commercialising its heavy-duty drone platform, Titan, which will help it enter broader defence procurement avenues.

It will spend money on speeding up the creation and subsequent improvements of the anti-drone interceptor system, Fury, so that it stays on the cutting edge of aerial security.

The third area of focus is a critical organisational expansion: expansion of the engineering team. This growth is required to maintain the rate of innovation and aid the scale-up of both the Titan and Fury platforms.

Unmannd is determined to venture into other markets internationally. The firm specifically intends to use the recently increased capital to investigate and capture the international defence export market, making its autonomous aerial systems visible on the global frontier as an enabler of contemporary defence infrastructure across the globe.

Conclusion

The $2 million in pre-seed funding, which was led by Speciale Invest and Accel, was a turning point in the life of Unmannd and established it as a leading innovator in the deeptech defence sector in India. The capital inflow is planned to be used strategically to commercialise the heavy-lift drone Titan and launch the high-speed anti-drone system Fury.