# Auterion: company

Canonical ID: `45baee51-8163-47f9-8638-cb88bc97004d`

## Key facts

- **Co-founders:** Lorenz Meier, Kevin Sartori
- **Series B:** 30M led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Sep 2025)
- **Products:** AuterionOS drone operating system
- **CEO & Founder:** Lorenz Meier
- **Co-Founder:** Kevin Sartori
- **Pentagon contract:** 0M for 33,000 Skynode strike kits to Ukraine
- **EU HQ:** Munich, Germany
- **Key partners:** Rheinmetall, Lockheed Martin
- **Taiwan partnership:** National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology

- **Slug:** auterion
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2017
- **HQ:** Arlington, Virginia, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 130000000

## Models

- [Skynode X](/models/skynode-x.md) (aerial) (id: `de5f5746-b426-4d58-8493-7c23b5391b85`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Lorenz Meier](/people/lorenz-meier.md) Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Kevin Sartori](/people/kevin-sartori.md) Co-Founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (2)

- [Lorenz Meier](/people/lorenz-meier.md) (cofounder)
- [Kevin Sartori](/people/kevin-sartori.md) (cofounder)

## Partnerships (3)

- [Auterion x Lockheed Martin](/partnerships/auterion-x-lockheed-martin.md) with Lockheed Martin _development_ (_reported, not operationally verified_)
- [Auterion x U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon)](/partnerships/auterion-x-u-s-department-of-defense-pentagon.md) with U.S. Department of Defense _deployment_
- [Auterion x Taiwan National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology](/partnerships/auterion-x-taiwan-national-chung-shan-institute-of-science-and-technology.md) with National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology _development_

## Supplies to

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