Chaos Industries
Chaos Industries is a Counter-UAS & Directed Energy company founded in 2023 and based in Los Angeles, United States. It has raised $1B in total funding, most recently a Series D in 2025 at a $4.5B valuation.
Chaos Industries builds advanced radar, sensing, and electronic-warfare systems for national security, built around its Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN) architecture — many rugged, low-cost nodes (its shoebox-sized HYDRA hardware) that combine into a single coherent picture and detect small drones, missiles, and aircraft minutes earlier than traditional exquisite radars. Its Vanquish counter-UAS radar has been added to the US Army's acquisition marketplace. Founded in 2023 by John Tenet and Brett Cummings, with former CIA Director George J. Tenet as executive chairman, the company raised a $510M Series D in November 2025 led by Valor Equity Partners at a reported $4.5B valuation, bringing total funding to roughly $1B.
Cheap, mass-produced drones have exposed a gap in air defense; Chaos's distributed-radar approach aims to make early detection of drones, missiles, and aircraft affordable and scalable — a fast-growing priority for the US and allied militaries protecting bases, borders, and critical infrastructure.
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