Epirus

Name

Epirus

Legal name

Epirus, Inc.

Website

https://epirusinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Torrance

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government contracts (DoD): Primary revenue stream from U.S. Department of Defense contracts including $66.1M IFPC-HPM Army contract (Jan 2023), $43.5M Army IFPC-HPM Gen II contract (Jul 2025), $17M Army contract modification (Oct 2024), $5.5M Navy ONR contract, $8M+ ONR grant with University of Oklahoma, plus DARPA contracts. Multi-year, milestone-based hardware sales.
2. Venture capital funding (non-revenue): $70M Series B (Dec 2020), $200M Series C (Feb 2022), $250M Series D (Mar 2025) - cumulative $287M raised through Series C and additional capital via Series D+. Not revenue but represents funding for R&D and operations.
3. Strategic supplier arrangements: Revenue from strategic supplier agreements with primes like Northrop Grumman (C-UAS component supplier) and L3Harris (power efficiency collaboration) - integrating Epirus EMP into broader defense offerings.
4. Strategic teaming agreement IDIQ awards: IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contract vehicle with Peraton announced Feb 2025 for strategic teaming on government opportunities.
5. International defense sales/MOU-based development: Memorandum of Understanding with Singapore DSTA (Jan 2026) for collaborative research, testing, and evaluation - first Indo-Pacific partnership. Represents emerging international revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Epirus designs, develops, and manufactures software-defined high-power microwave (HPM) systems, anchored by its Leonidas family of products, that deliver counter-electronics effects against drones, drone swarms, and other electronic threats. The company also offers SmartPower, a software-based power management platform that uses AI/ML to dynamically allocate and optimize power across mission systems. Epirus primarily serves U.S. Department of Defense customers and allied international defense agencies.

Product overview

Epirus is a defense technology company built around a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on its SmartPower machine-intelligent power management platform and its flagship Leonidas family of solid-state, software-defined, long-pulse high-power microwave (HPM) systems. The core offering, Leonidas, is offered across multiple form-factor variants — including the portable Leonidas Pod, maritime Leonidas H₂O, expeditionary Leonidas Expeditionary and ExDECS, vehicle-mounted Leonidas VehicleKit, and the integrated platform products Stryker Leonidas (GDLS), Leonidas AR (GDLS TRX), and Leonidas AGV (Kodiak AI / Ford F-600) — which together provide layered short-range air defense, maneuver short-range defense, long-range HPM air defense, and compact electronic warfare capabilities. These are complemented by the Air Domain Awareness module (always-on UAS perception/tracking) and the Advanced Electronics module (hardware, software and AI capabilities for high-power applications). Underlying all products is SmartPower, which uses real-time machine intelligence and software-defined waveforms to deliver counter-electronics and counter-swarm effects across ground, air, sea, and space domains for government and commercial customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Leonidas: Epirus' flagship family of solid-state, software-defined high-power microwave (HPM) counter-electronics systems designed for counter-UAS and counter-swarm defense, including fixed/semi-fixed, mobile, and tactical form factors.
• Leonidas Pod
• Leonidas H2O
• Leonidas AR (Autonomous Robotic)
• Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV)
• SmartPower

Products and services

• Leonidas (Ground-Based)
• Leonidas Pod
• Leonidas H2O
• Leonidas Expeditionary
• Leonidas ExDECS
• Leonidas VehicleKit
• Stryker Leonidas
• Leonidas AR
• Leonidas AGV
• SmartPower

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% success rate in field demonstrations - all drones deployed disabled across real-time scenarios
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability9 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered high - flagship leonidas agv collaboration, moderate - integrated c-uas kill chain partner, flagship - first international partnership, indo-pacific entry, moderate - cohort participation, high - strategic teaming and idiq award, high - strategic investor and technology partner, moderate - r&d collaboration, high - critical software integration, flagship - core strategic relationship and high - prime contractor distribution channel.

• Kodiak AIhigh - flagship leonidas agv collaborationTechnology or Integration · 24 March 2026Collaboration with General Dynamics Land Systems and Kodiak AI to develop the Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV). Kodiak provides AI-powered autonomous driving system on commercial Ford F-600 truck integrated with Epirus' HPM technology. Unveiled March 2026 at AUSA Global Force Symposium.
• Digital Force Technologies (DFT)moderate - integrated c-uas kill chain partnerTechnology or Integration · 23 February 2026Partnership to deliver integrated counter-UAS kill chain combining Epirus' Leonidas HPM platform with DFT's Seraphim command-and-control and multi-modal sensor fusion software. Epirus leads systems integration. Plans joint US government demonstrations.
• Singapore Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)flagship - first international partnership, indo-pacific entryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 January 2026MOU signed January 2026 for collaborative research, testing, and evaluation of high-power microwave counter-drone technologies. Targets advanced drone threats including fiber-optic-guided and AI-enabled drones. Marks Epirus' first Indo-Pacific region partnership.
• Palantir Technologiesmoderate - cohort participationGTM or Marketing Partner · 13 March 2025Joined Palantir's Warp Speed Cohort 2 (March 2025) to accelerate production for defense and commercial markets. Warp Speed is Palantir's program to accelerate production capabilities for selected defense tech companies.
• Peratonhigh - strategic teaming and idiq awardStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 February 2025Strategic Teaming Agreement and IDIQ award (Feb 2025) for joint government opportunities. Peraton CEO Stu Shea joined Epirus Board of Directors. Enables access to Peraton's existing DoD contract vehicles.
• L3Harris Technologieshigh - strategic investor and technology partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 July 2024Strategic investor in Series B (Dec 2020) and partnership to maximize tactical radio efficiency (July 2024). Also referenced as partner on creating greater power efficiencies within existing systems.
• University of Oklahomamoderate - r&d collaborationStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 September 2023$8M+ Office of Naval Research grant awarded jointly to develop breakthrough long-distance phased array applications.
• Anduril Industrieshigh - critical software integrationTechnology or Integration · 27 July 2023Advanced Counter-UAS software integration between Epirus' Leonidas HPM system and Anduril's Lattice Command and Control platform. Supports U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory technology evaluations as part of USMC Force Design 2030 process. Combines Lattice AI/ML detection with Leonidas counter-electronics defeat.
• UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)moderate - r&d collaborationStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 May 2023Collaboration under DARPA's Massive Cross-Correlation (MAX) program with up to four project phases worth $5.3M total. Developing highly scalable analog circuit techniques for power efficiency and high-speed correlators.
• Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC)moderate - r&d collaborationStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 December 2021Collaboration under DARPA's WARDEN RANGER project to develop software for rapid computation of Electromagnetic propagation effects using AI-based models. Up to three project phases.
• General Dynamics Land Systemsflagship - core strategic relationshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 October 2021Strategic Teaming Agreement (Oct 2021) to integrate Leonidas HPM into Stryker and other manned/autonomous ground combat vehicles for enhanced mobile SHORAD capabilities. Resulted in Stryker Leonidas (2022), Leonidas AR (2025), and Leonidas AGV with Kodiak AI (2026). General Dynamics Land Systems also invested in Series C and Series D funding rounds.
• Northrop Grummanhigh - prime contractor distribution channelStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 July 2020Strategic supplier agreement to offer Epirus' Electromagnetic Pulse capability as a component of Northrop Grumman's Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering. Augments Northrop Grumman's end-to-end C-UAS capabilities with Epirus EMP for UAS swarm defeat.

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Anduril Industries: Closest direct peer - venture-backed defense tech company building autonomous systems, counter-UAS, and command-and-control (Lattice) software. Anduril and Epirus have an active software integration partnership for C-UAS kill chains, and both compete in the same DoD counter-drone programs.
• Shield AI: Venture-backed defense tech company developing AI-piloted autonomous aircraft and counter-UAS solutions. Competes with Epirus in the same venture-backed defense startup ecosystem and DoD autonomous systems programs.
• Helsing: European defense AI company building software-defined defense capabilities including AI for autonomous systems and electronic warfare. Comparable venture-backed defense AI peer serving allied nations' asymmetric threat challenges.
• Dedrone: Counter-UAS specialist focused on detection, tracking, and identification of small drones. While Dedrone focuses on the detect/track layer of the C-UAS kill chain (similar to Epirus's Air Domain Awareness), it competes for the same DoD and allied counter-drone budgets.
• DroneShield: Counter-UAS solutions provider offering RF-based detection and soft-kill defeat capabilities. Competes directly with Epirus in the soft-kill counter-drone space and serves similar government and critical infrastructure customers.

Emerging players

• Fortem Technologies: Emerging counter-UAS player specializing in airspace awareness and interceptor drones for drone-on-drone defeat. Adjacent to Epirus in the counter-UAS space with a different defeat mechanism (kinetic interceptor vs. HPM).

Broad incumbents

• Palantir Technologies: Larger, publicly-traded data analytics and defense software company operating broadly across defense and intelligence. Palantir runs the Warp Speed Cohort 2 program in which Epirus participates, and both serve overlapping DoD customers in command-and-control.
• RTX (Raytheon): Legacy defense prime with established directed energy, electronic warfare, and counter-UAS programs. Epirus leadership team came from Raytheon, and RTX competes for the same DoD HPM and counter-drone contracts at a much larger scale.
• L3Harris Technologies: Major defense prime and strategic investor in Epirus (Series B). L3Harris has broader defense electronics and tactical radio portfolios but partners with Epirus on power efficiency for tactical radios, signaling overlapping technology interests.

Others

• General Dynamics Land Systems: Defense prime and Epirus' flagship platform integration partner for Stryker, TRX, and Leonidas AGV. While not a direct competitor (GDLS is a customer/investor), it is a peer in delivering integrated counter-UAS solutions to the DoD.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors31 records

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M&A

Investments1 record

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