CategoryDrones
Appears inMilitary & defense drones
Overview
French defense-tech company building AI-powered counter-UAS interceptor drones. Black Bird is a turbojet-powered fixed-wing interceptor with AI terminal guidance under jamming, 670 km/h max speed, 30 km/20 min flight autonomy. EUR 50M (USD 58M) Series A (Jun 2026) led by Air Street Capital with Cherry Ventures and OTB Ventures. Airbus is an investor. Paris-based.
Reality check
Airbus MoU (company-claimed)
Airbus Defence and Space and Alta Ares signed an MoU on Jun 11 2026 to develop and integrate European counter-drone solutions.
Black Bird (company-claimed)
A medium-range (30 km) interceptor for high-speed targets such as cruise missiles.
X-Lock (company-claimed)
A short-range (15 km) system to counter drone threats.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Alta Ares has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Airbus1× joint2 total
Most recent
- Alta Ares x Airbus2026-06-11with Airbusjust announced
Alta Ares on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jan 2025. Explore where Alta Ares's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Alta Ares deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Hadrien Canter Co-founder and CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Hadrien Canterno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Alta Ares.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Alta Ares3 deployments
Recent coverage
Alta Ares in third-party press
Peers
95 peers across 1 segment. Every Alta Ares competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
drone(95)
57 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 1809.2177305910177) · leader Anduril Industries at 3057%
- AEVEX Aerospacedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Darkhivedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Dedronedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Firestorm Labsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Havocdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Performance Drone Worksdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Mentioned on (4)
Registry pages whose text names Alta Ares.
Robots and products (1)
Deployments (2)
Black Bird Interceptor at Estonia, Black Bird Interceptor at France
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $60.3M
- Employees
- 85
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Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Alta Ares has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Alta Ares x Airbus2026-06-11with Airbusjust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1Airbus1× joint2 total
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2026-06-08
$58M(reported)
Investors: Air Street Capital (lead), Accel-KKR (follow), Myra (follow), Oliver Cameron (follow), Torsten Reil (follow), Rubin Ritter (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Alta Ares’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-06-08Series A raising $58000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2025
Black Bird Interceptor at Estonia
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedNov 1, 2024
Black Bird Interceptor at Ukraine
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2024
Black Bird Interceptor at France
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Alta Ares.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- DJI9 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- Skydio6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Alta Ares from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/alta-ares.md
- RSS feed: /companies/alta-ares/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/031bf4e7-7638-47bd-9712-b693074da8cd
- Revision history: /companies/alta-ares/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- DJI9 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- Skydio6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Alta Ares draws attention at the 22nd percentile but verifies reality at the 60th percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap -38.5, 99th widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 3 verified deployments. Active fundraising activity with a recent closing. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 6, 2026