Paris-based battlefield software startup Comand AI has raised €32m in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital. Swedish defence prime Saab also invested in the round, as well as Polish investor Expeditions.
The startup has developed an AI software platform that military officers can use to more efficiently plan and strategise operations; it also offers post-operation analysis tools to help officers better plan and train the next operation.
Cofounder and CEO Loïc Mougeolle told Sifted back in 2024 that Comand AI’s goal is to “augment these officers so that they can plan and conduct operations […] four times faster and with four times less people.”
The new fundraise comes a year and a half after its €8.5m round in December 2024. Comand AI is backed by investors including Eurazeo, Frst, Kima Ventures and Tiny VC. Sifted understands the new Series A has been in the works for more than six months.
The company said the new fundraise would fuel the expansion of its AI-native platform across NATO markets and into new operational domains, like air and maritime, the former of which it says is already underway. Comand AI says its platform has been deployed with operational units in France, Germany and Ukraine, as well as other allied nations, over the last year.
“Operations where orders were given by speech and text are giving way to operations where perception, decision and action are defined and executed by algorithms,” Mougeolle said in a statement. “The nations that adapt fastest will prevail.”
London-based Blossom Capital has been doing more defence deals of late, also backing Estonian air defence startup Frankenburg Technologies last year in addition to the new Comand AI deal.
