The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Havoc: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $185.0M 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.
Reality check
Software (company-claimed)
C2 one-to-many control, Insights analytics, Connect DDIL network and an edge autonomy OS.
Rampage ASV (company-claimed)
14-foot autonomous surface vessel, about $100K each; 40+ mission-ready.
Atlas vessel (company-claimed)
100-foot autonomous vessel in testing in Rhode Island.
Deployments (company-claimed)
100+ ASVs deployed in the US, Europe and Indo-Pacific; targets thousands in 2026.
Testing (company-claimed)
25,000+ hours of autonomous testing across sea, air and land.
Employees and offices (company-claimed)
200+ staff in Providence, Austin and San Diego.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Partners (reported, unconfirmed)
Acquisitions (reported, unconfirmed)
Army xTech (reported, unconfirmed)
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× joint3 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
121 peers across 3 segments. Every Havoc competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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- Darkhivedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Dedronedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Firestorm Labsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
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- 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
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Havoc.
Companies (1)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $185.0M
- Employees
- 200
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× joint3 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology2025-06-09operating
- Havoc x Hanwha Defense USAwithHanwha Defense USAjoint venture2026-01-08announcedjust announced
Funding rounds (2)
Havoc’s 2 disclosed rounds, $185M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2026-05-12
$100M(reported)
Investors: Cobalt Capital (lead)
- Series B2025-10-10
$85M(reported)
Investors: B Capital (lead), In-Q-Tel (strategic), Lockheed Martin (strategic), Hanwha (strategic), UP.Partners (strategic), Taiwania Capital (strategic)
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 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
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
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Havoc from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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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…
US Navy tests Rampage uncrewed vessels off South Carolina
Havoc Rampage USVs operated alongside USS Cole and Navy helicopters in the Southern Lightning exercise off South Carolina, validating five sensors across two vessels in 5-6 foot…
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
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 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 58th percentile but verifies reality at the 15th percentile among maritime robots. Hype Gap +43.1, 2nd widest among maritime robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Well-capitalized with $185M 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: Oct 25, 2026