What Heaviside Industries does

Heaviside Industries is a privately held, venture-backed defense technology company founded in 2024 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with a secondary office in Oslo, Norway. The company designs, manufactures, and sells autonomous precision munitions across three operational domains — land (MOTH, spectrum awareness and electromagnetic signal intelligence), air (TYR, autonomous aerial munition), and sea (HYDRA, autonomous underwater munition) — for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. Its core technology is built on a miniaturized electronics foundation, with guidance and navigation systems engineered to maintain hyper-precision targeting in GPS-denied, electronically jammed, and contested environments; the company cites over 100,000 flight hours of operational heritage from its guidance group and engineering talent drawn from the most successful miniaturized military UAS program ever fielded. Heaviside goes to market through a direct enterprise sales motion to defense buyers, with quote-based, multi-year contract pricing and dedicated sales, support, and general email channels. The company claims a manufacturing program that has already shipped tens of thousands of systems to its U.S. and allied customer roster, and emerged from stealth on 11 May 2026 with a $28 million Series A led by Interlagos, with participation from Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures, and individual defense/finance/aerospace investors. Series A capital is explicitly earmarked to accelerate development, production, and delivery of the multi-domain autonomous munitions portfolio to domestic and allied customers. The company is led by CEO Phillip Walker.

Name

Heaviside Industries

Legal name

Heaviside Industries, Inc.

Website

https://theheaviside.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Heaviside Industries builds autonomous precision munitions for air, land, and sea operations in GPS-denied and contested environments, serving U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces via direct defense enterprise sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Autonomous Defense Munitions

NAICS

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511), Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (336414), Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (336419), Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing (33641)

SIC

Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812), Ordnance & Accessories, (No Vehicles/Guided Missiles) (3480), Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts (3760)

akta.pro primary industry

Torpedoes & Undersea Weapons (IMABAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Air Defense Missiles & Interceptors (IMABAHAD), Ordnance Components & Subassemblies (Casings, Liners, Guidance Sections) (IMABAHAL), Bombs, Depth Charges & Aerial Delivered Ordnance (IMABAHAI), Military ISR, EW & SIGINT Payloads (Airborne) (IMABAMAF)

Keywords

• Autonomous precision munitions
• Defense strike systems
• Multi-domain munitions
• GPS-denied weapons
• Contested environment guidance

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hardware sales of autonomous precision munitions: Sale of autonomous precision munitions systems (MOTH, TYR, HYDRA) to U.S. and allied defense customers. Company has already shipped tens of thousands of systems to its roster of customers, indicating high-volume, contract-based hardware procurement by government/military buyers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Heaviside Industries designs, manufactures, and ships autonomous precision munitions for air, land, and sea defense applications. Its product portfolio comprises MOTH (land-domain spectrum awareness and electromagnetic signal intelligence), TYR (air-domain autonomous aerial munition), and HYDRA (sea-domain underwater munition), all built on a miniaturized electronics foundation and engineered to maintain precision in GPS-denied, jammed, and electronically contested environments for U.S. and allied warfighters.

Product overview

Heaviside Industries offers a unified product line of autonomous precision munitions spanning three operational domains under a single corporate brand. The portfolio is built around three named sub-products: MOTH for Land (Spectrum Awareness and Electromagnetic Signal Intelligence), TYR for Air (an Autonomous Aerial Munition, announced for 2026), and HYDRA for Sea (an Underwater Munition, announced for 2026). Together these form Heaviside's multi-domain autonomous precision munitions offering, designed to operate in GPS-denied and electronically contested environments for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MOTH: Land-based product focused on spectrum awareness and electromagnetic signal intelligence (MOTH-2026).
• TYR
• HYDRA

Products and services

• MOTH Heaviside's land-domain product providing spectrum awareness and electromagnetic signal intelligence for U.S. and allied warfighters operating in contested environments. MOTH-2026 is offered by Heaviside Industries, Inc.
• TYR Heaviside's air-domain autonomous aerial munition designed for hyper-precision targeting in jammed and GPS-denied environments for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. TYR-2026 is offered by Heaviside Industries, Inc.
• HYDRA Heaviside's sea-domain autonomous underwater munition designed for precision strike in contested maritime environments for U.S. and allied warfighters. HYDRA-2026 is offered by Heaviside Industries, Inc.

Quantifiable outcome

• Shipped tens of thousands of systems to U.S. and allied customers
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature5 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Palantir Technologies: Palantir's defense software platforms (Gotham, Maven Smart System) underpin modern targeting and kill-chain workflows that consume outputs from autonomous precision munitions like Heaviside's — an enabling ecosystem participant rather than direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Lockheed Martin: Lockheed Martin's portfolio includes JASSM, JASSM-ER, and other long-range precision strike systems that compete with Heaviside's munition family at the program-of-record level, with vastly greater resources and existing U.S./allied program positions.
• RTX (Raytheon): Raytheon fields Tomahawk, SM-6, and other precision munitions across air, land, and sea — the most direct incumbent competitor to Heaviside's multi-domain autonomous munition portfolio, with established allied export franchises.
• L3Harris Technologies: L3Harris builds autonomous and electronic warfare systems for U.S. and allied militaries, with portfolio overlap on signal intelligence (relevant to MOTH) and precision munition subsystems.
• Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman produces precision strike weapons (AARGM, GBSD-adjacent systems) and autonomous platforms, competing against Heaviside in U.S. and allied munition procurement while also supplying the broader autonomous-systems ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Skydio: Skydio supplies autonomous small UAS to U.S. and allied defense and public safety customers; relevant as an emerging defense autonomy peer with adjacent miniaturization and contested-environment navigation capabilities.

Direct peers

• Anduril Industries: Anduril builds autonomous defense systems (including Roadrunner, Bolt, and loitering munitions) for U.S. and allied forces, using a venture-backed hardware+software model similar to Heaviside's enterprise sales motion to special operations and conventional military buyers.
• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions: Kratos develops unmanned systems, target drones, and affordable precision strike platforms, competing for the same low-cost, high-volume autonomous munitions contracts that Heaviside targets across air and sea domains.
• Shield AI: Shield AI builds autonomous defense aircraft and AI-piloted systems (Hivemind, V-BAT) for U.S. and allied forces — directly comparable to Heaviside as a venture-backed autonomy-focused defense company selling into similar customer segments.
• AeroVironment: AeroVironment's Switchblade family is the most operationally deployed loitering/precision munition against armor and high-value targets — the closest incumbent analog to Heaviside's TYR product and a direct competitor for U.S. and allied special operations procurement.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors11 records

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M&A

Investments

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