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December 16, 2024

Comand AI raises €8.5m to build battlefield AI software for officers

The startup’s team hails from the likes of OpenAI and Palantir — and it’s on the hunt to hire more from those companies

Anne Sraders

4 min read

Paris-based Comand AI, a two-year-old startup building AI battlefield strategy planning software, has raised €8.5m in seed funding led by Eurazeo. Existing investor Frst, a French seed-stage fund, and newcomer Expeditions Fund, a Poland-based VC, also participated. 

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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