The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Neros: 2 models, 4 deployments across 3 regions, $325.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
CategoryDrones
Appears inMilitary & defense drones
Overview
Neros is a Los Angeles-based autonomous defense drone startup that has raised $120M+ in total funding ($10.9M Seed from Sequoia, $35M Series A, $75M Series B led by Sequoia capital). The company manufactures autonomous drones for the U.S. military and allies, with 6,000 drone units contracted for the International Drone Capability Coalition for deployment in Ukraine, and deliveries to the UK Ministry of Defense.
Neros was selected by the U.S. Army for a major drone program.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 4 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundSeries C post-money
Key facts
Product
Total fundingsee investors →
Ukraine deployment
UK MoD
US Army
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
2
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
Neros FPV Drone
Neros FPV Drone is a drone from Neros Technologies, currently in production.. Form factor: aerial. Type: Drone/UAV. Maturity: In production.
Current platform
Archer
Neros Technologies, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles with a Ukraine office, makes the Archer, a first-person-view strike quadcopter, under chief executive and co-founder Soren Monroe-Anderson, a former professional drone racer, and is backed by Sequoia Capital and the Founders Fund circle with a 75-million-dollar Series B in November 2025 and more than 120 million dollars raised. The Archer is an eight-inch-class FPV drone with twelve-plus miles of range and a 4.5-pound payload, with an Archer Strike variant engaging beyond twenty kilometers, and Neros is one of few FPV makers meeting Defense Innovation Unit China-free supply-chain rules. Its verified gating events are strong for so new a company: selection for the US Army's Purpose-Built Attritable Systems program Tranche 1 in November 2025 as one of three primary FPV makers, a multi-million-dollar Marine Corps Archer Strike contract in December 2025, and roughly 6,000 Archers fielded to Ukraine via the Ramstein drone coalition at about 1,500 per month. Honestly characterized, the Archer is a human-piloted first-person-view drone and not autonomous, with Series-B funds earmarked for autonomy research that is aspirational rather than fielded. A framing correction worth recording: the often-cited Replicator tie is not borne out, and the verified program is Army PBAS plus Marine and DIU work. The registry records it at early commercial maturity, since real product plus named contracts plus combat fielding clears the gate, but it deliberately does not grant the aspirational scale figures of ten thousand per month or a million per year, and the PBAS total value, quantity, and timeline are undisclosed.
Neros on the deployment map
View the global map4 verified deployments across 3 regions, newest verified Feb 2025. Explore where Neros's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Neros deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Neros, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What is an autonomous drone?
What is the Neros Archer?
Current leadership (3)
- Soren Monroe-Anderson Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Olaf Hichwa Co-founder & CTO, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Sean Wood Chief Operating Officersecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Soren Monroe-Andersoncofounderfounded 2020-01-01
- Olaf Hichwacofounderfounded 2020-01-01
- Olaf Hichwacofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Neros.
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)
- Neros4 deployments
Recent coverage
Neros in third-party press
Peers
168 peers across 1 segment. Every Neros competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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- Singularitydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Swarmerdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Mentioned on (6)
Registry pages whose text names Neros.
Robots and products (1)
Deployments (2)
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $325.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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.
Funding rounds (3)
Neros’s 3 disclosed rounds, $575M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series C2026-08-11
$250M(reported) · $2.5B post
Investors: Spark Capital, Valor Equity Partners
- Series C2026-08-11
$250M(reported) · $2.5B post
- Series B2025-11-07
$75M · $600M post
Investors: Sequoia Capital (lead), Vy Capital
Timeline
Every recorded move in Neros’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2026-08-11Series C raising $250000000
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2026-08-11Series C raising $250000000
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2025-11-07Series B raising $75000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 26, 2026
Archer photo
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedFeb 1, 2025
Neros FPV Drone at Ukraine
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2025
Neros FPV Drone at United States
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Archer at El Segundo
Sources (3)
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251106525503/en/U.S.-Army-Selects-Neros-Archer-FPV-and-Flatbow-Ground-Control-System-for-Purpose-Built-Attritable-Systems-PBAS-Program
- https://www.army-technology.com/news/neros-us-army-fpv-contract/
- https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/07/03/made-in-america-drone-maker-neros-awaits-its-big-pentagon-break/
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Neros.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- DJI9 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- Skydio6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Neros from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Neros, Perennial Autonomy lead in Pentagon’s drone competition
Two companies scored highest during the second phase of a Pentagon competition to find companies that can produce high-quality, low-cost commercial drones.
Neros, Perennial Autonomy lead in Pentagon’s drone competition
Two companies scored highest during the second phase of a Pentagon competition to find companies that can produce high-quality, low-cost commercial drones.
Five companies lead scoring in $1 billion drone program
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Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026
Neros is developing its Archer AI and Bandit platform with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control. The post Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/neros.md
- RSS feed: /companies/neros/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/48ee189e-a232-4fa6-aa8f-8e116a7a6be4
- Revision history: /companies/neros/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
Noticiero completo de Elisa Alanís del 3 de julio de 2026: 0:00 Confirman muerte de periodista Roxana Guzmán en Veracruz. Fiscalía de Veracruz identifica resto
My first interview with Olaf Hichwa, co-founder & CTO of Neros. 0:25 China free vs. China limited 5:10 Building FPV drones as kids 7:05 Hundreds of iterations
US company Neros is supplying its American-made Archer FPV attack drones to Ukraine
Cheap drones are reshaping warfare in real time. In this episode, Soren Monroe-Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Neros Technologies, breaks down what it actually
Cost-effective, battlefield-proven drones optimized for large-scale deployment, long-range missions, and resistance to electronic warfare, enhancing defense cap
The U.S. Marine Corps has selected the Neros Archer FPV drone as its emerging standard platform for service-wide training and general use. But why this drone? A
Today, we announce our Series C Funding of $250M at $2.5B post money valuation to scale our Autonomous and Interceptor drone programs. These funds will acceler
Neros Technologies won a Department of War contract worth up to $500 million to supply first-person-view attack drones to the U.S. Army, the Wall Street Journal
Archer FPV (Neros Technologies) A small FPV attack drone at the center of the Pentagon's "drone dominance" initiative. Neros Technologies claims it can produce
Neros Technologies announced on July 10, 2026, that it is developing Bandit, a counter-unmanned aircraft system interceptor drone. The company said it will docu
From the expo floor at Modern Day Marine 2026, Andrew Sweet of Neros Technologies shared an industry perspective. He spoke about the value of direct interactio
Recruitment film produced for NEROS Technologies. Part of a 15-video recruitment campaign designed to highlight the people, culture, and mission behind the com
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
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
Neros draws attention at the 80th percentile but verifies reality at the 73rd percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap +7, 46th widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 4 verified deployments. Well-capitalized with $575M 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 17, 2026