Mara’s $7M Pre-Seed: Cheap Kinetic C-UAS for FPV Swarms
Khosla Ventures led Mara’s $7M pre-seed with a16z Speedrun in the round — Spike pairs Spotter sensing with 250g Seeker interceptors aimed at FPV economics, not missile-class C-UAS.
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Khosla Ventures led Mara’s $7M pre-seed with a16z Speedrun in the round — Spike pairs Spotter sensing with 250g Seeker interceptors aimed at FPV economics, not missile-class C-UAS.
ICONIQ, Lightspeed, and Avra led Whatnot’s $545M Series G at $20B as a16z, YC, and Kleiner Perkins stayed in — GMV already passed full-year 2025 in H1 2026.
Ribbit, Addition, Valor Equity, and JPMorgan's Strategic Investment Group led Base Power's $1B Series D at $13B post-money — funding U.S.-made Base Core batteries and a virtual power plant at residential scale.
Months-old Volta Infra raised $300M co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter, with Nvidia and Michael Dell participating — plus a reported $10B compute contract and $5B customer financing pool.
Prysm Capital and Eurazeo led HappyRobot's $150M Series C as DHL, Uber, and logistics operators buy AI agents that execute calls, email, and multi-step workflows — with a16z, Base10, and YC doubling down.
Convex raised $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, with a16z and Spark returning — a bet that agent-written software needs a reliability layer Postgres never provided.