The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Havoc: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $270.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
CategoryMaritime
Overview
Havoc (formerly HavocAI) is an all-domain Collaborative autonomy company building autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) and a software stack that lets a single operator command swarms of unmanned maritime systems. Founded by Navy veterans Paul Lwin and Joe Turner in Providence, Rhode Island, the company vessel lineup spans the 14-foot Rampage USV, the 38-foot Seahound, the 42-foot Kiakoa, and the 100-foot Atlas, and it has delivered 30+ vessels to the U.S. military across Navy and Army exercises including Southern Lightning, Project Convergence, and Silent Swarm. Havoc competes with Anduril and Saronic in the contested maritime-autonomy market highlighted by the Pentagon Replicator initiative.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Founded
HQ
CEO
Investorssee investors →
Deployments
Testing
Platforms
Product
CEO & Co-founder
Co-founder
Product — Rampage
Product — Atlas
Employees
Offices
Partnerships
Acquisitions
Board member
xTech wins
Hero image candidate
Data & sources
Web sources
1
1 source backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Havoc has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Hanwha Defense USA1× joint
- 2Lockheed Martin1× joint5 total
Most recent
- Havoc x Hanwha Defense USA2026-01-08with Hanwha Defense USAjust announced
- Havoc x Lockheed Martin2025-06-09with Lockheed Martinoperating
Havoc on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified May 2025. Explore where Havoc's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Havoc deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Paul Lwin Co-founder and CEO, CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Joe Turner Co-founder & COOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for Havoc.
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)
- Havoc1 deployment
Recent coverage
Havoc in third-party press
Peers
124 peers across 3 segments. Every Havoc competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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- BRINC Dronesdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Darkhivedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Dedronedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Firestorm Labsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
ugv(17)
12 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 0)
- ARX Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- BAE Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Brasa Labsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- BurnBotdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- General Dynamics Land Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
usv(8)
2 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 5766.949001814165) · leader Kraken Technology Group at 6958%
- ACUA Oceandirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Babcock Internationaldirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Kraken Technology Groupdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Rekise Marinedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Saronic Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Ulyssesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $270.0M
- Employees
- 200
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Havoc has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Havoc x Hanwha Defense USA2026-01-08with Hanwha Defense USAjust announced
- Havoc x Lockheed Martin2025-06-09with Lockheed Martinoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Hanwha Defense USA1× joint
- 2Lockheed Martin1× joint5 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology2025-06-09operating
- Havoc x Hanwha Defense USAwithHanwha Defense USAjoint venture2026-01-08announcedjust announced
Funding rounds (3)
Havoc’s 3 disclosed rounds, $270M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2026-05-12
$100M(reported) · $600M post
Investors: Cobalt Capital (lead)
- Series B2025-10-10
$85M(reported) · $680M post
Investors: B Capital (lead), In-Q-Tel (strategic), Lockheed Martin (strategic), Hanwha (strategic), UP.Partners (strategic), Taiwania Capital (strategic)
- Seed2025-10-01
$85M(reported) · $340M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Havoc’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-05-12Series A raising $100000000
PartnershipHavoc x Hanwha Defense USA
2026-01-08Hanwha Defense USA, Hanwha Systems, and HavocAI signed an MOU to jointly develop 200-foot autonomous surface vessels, with Hanwha Philly Shipyard considered as a production site.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2025-10-10Series B raising $85000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-10-01Seed raising $85000000
PartnershipHavoc x Lockheed Martin
2025-06-09Lockheed Martin and Havoc signed a partnership agreement to integrate Havoc collaborative autonomy software with Lockheed Martin defense systems, including Rampage USV operations.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 1, 2025
Rampage at South Carolina
Sources (1)
- Havoc (official) · https://www.havocai.com
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Havoc.Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- BlackSea Technologies1 model
- HavocAI1 model
- Interactive Robotics and Vision Laboratory (IRV Lab)1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Havoc from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to…
Bill McKibben Explores The AI Dystopia
Bill McKibben is one of our heroes here at CleanTechnica. His commentary has been featured prominently on our website many times because he sees clearly the planetary havoc that…
Leidos CEO says AGM-190A Havoc Spear is in flight tests and has been deployed in combat, with U.S. Air Force and SOCOM scaling discussed
Leidos’ AGM-190A Havoc Spear small cruise missile is undergoing flight testing and has been deployed in exercises and combat, Chief Executive Officer Tom Bell said.
How the hard reality of climate change hit Europe’s economy this summer
Record heat and droughts this summer have wreaked havoc in power production, shipping and public health systems.
Brazen social media fraud schemes wreak havoc as Trump official issues stark warning for 'fraudfluencers'
"Fraudfluencers" use social media to recruit others into government fraud schemes, says DOL Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito in a stark warning.
HavocAI Raises 100M to Accelerate Multi-Domain Push
HavocAI raised 100M Series A to expand from maritime USVs into multi-domain autonomy.
Meet The Former Burmese Refugee Vying To Be The U.S. Militarys Go-To Drone Guy
Forbes profile of Havoc CEO Paul Lwin and COO Joe Turner, two Navy veterans building a maritime autonomy challenger to Anduril and Saronic after closing a $100M funding round.
Autonomous systems startup Havoc raises $100 million
$100M Series A, total $200M. 100+ ASVs deployed, 30+ to DoD. Partners: Lockheed Martin, Leidos, SAIC. 200+ employees.
Hanwha, HavocAI to develop 200 autonomous surface vessels
Hanwha Defense USA, Hanwha Systems, and HavocAI signed an MOU to jointly develop 200-foot autonomous surface vessels, with Hanwha Philly Shipyard considered as a production site.
HavocAI Adds 5M in New Capital to Scale Proven Autonomy Capabilities
HavocAI secured 5M in new capital from investors including B Capital, In-Q-Tel, Lockheed Martin, and Hanwha, bringing total funding to nearly 00M.
HavocAI raises $85M to sell autonomous boats to the U.S. military
$85M round, total ~$100M at time. Rampage 14-foot ASV at $100K each. Navy bought 12. Metal Shark partnership. In-Q-Tel, B Capital, Lockheed Martin investors.
HavocAI and Lockheed Martin Team Up
Havoc signed a partnership agreement with Lockheed Martin, integrating its collaborative autonomy software with Lockheed Martin defense systems, with Rampage USVs deployed in…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/havoc.md
- RSS feed: /companies/havoc/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/498e0f8f-6288-4bf7-9676-678b911447d9
- Revision history: /companies/havoc/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- BlackSea Technologies1 model
- HavocAI1 model
- Interactive Robotics and Vision Laboratory (IRV Lab)1 model
Video
Heat Index
Category contender79/100
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
Havoc draws attention at the 81st percentile but verifies reality at the 12th percentile among maritime robots. Hype Gap +69.2, 2nd widest among maritime robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Well-capitalized with $270M raised and recent funding activity. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category 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: Sep 10, 2026