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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 venture capital industry and deeptech startups, including robotics, spacetech and defence tech. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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