Auterion
Auterion is a Drones & UAS Autonomy company founded in 2017 and based in Arlington, United States. It has raised $170M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2025.
Auterion builds an open operating system for autonomous drones, AuterionOS, layered on the open-source PX4 autopilot its founders created, plus Skynode flight-computer hardware to put any drone on the platform. Founded in 2017 in Zurich by Lorenz Meier and Kevin Sartori, with US headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and an engineering hub in Munich, the company aims to make autonomy interoperable so one operator can control fleets from many manufacturers as a single coordinated fabric, including drone swarms. Its software powers enterprise and defense drone operations, with lessons from Ukraine driving a swarm-at-scale strategy: Auterion holds a $50M Pentagon contract to deliver 33,000 AI strike kits to Ukraine, demonstrated a live-fire multi-platform swarm with its Nemyx swarm engine in January 2026, and struck a deal with Taiwan's Thunder Tiger covering roughly 25,000 licenses. In September 2025 Auterion raised a $130M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, including $25M in non-dilutive capital from the US Office of Strategic Capital.
Auterion is the open, hardware-agnostic autonomy OS for drones, built on the PX4 stack its founders authored, positioning it to coordinate multi-vendor fleets and swarms the way an operating system unifies devices.
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