Smack Technologies Raises $61 Million to Build Tactical AI Hardware

Aug 18, 2026
Smack Technologies raised a $61 million Series B round led by Costanoa Ventures and First In to expand its national security AI platforms and build hardware for tactical edge deployments.

Smack Technologies raised a $61 million Series B round led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, the company announced in a press release. The round included Point72 Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Nomi Capital, Felicis, Sapphire Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Fortitude Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and Palumni VC.

The funding brings Smack Technologies to more than $90 million raised. The company said it will use the new capital to build proprietary hardware for Alpha, its tactical AI platform for use in communications and compute constrained environments.

Smack Technologies also operates Omega, a platform for command level planning. The company said Alpha extends related decision support capabilities to warfighters and autonomous systems at the tactical edge.

Smack Technologies was co founded in 2024 by MARSOC veterans. It is building domain specific AI models for national security use across the United States, allies, and partners.

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