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Neros

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…

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Founded
2023
HQ
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Status
private ($120M+ raised; Sequoia-backed)

Appears inMilitary & defense drones

Funding

$75.0M

Models

1

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
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

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Key facts

Product

Archer FPV strike quadcopter (remotely-piloted, China-free supply chain); ~1,500/month.

Gating events

US Army PBAS Tranche 1 (Nov 2025) + USMC contract; ~6,000 to Ukraine. NOT Replicator.

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Total funding

$120M+ ($75M Series B led by Sequoia)

Ukraine deployment

6,000 drones contracted

UK MoD

Delivering drones

US Army

Selected for major drone program

Data & sources

Press releases

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Web sources

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Models (1)

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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.

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Relationships

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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?

    An autonomous drone is an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) whose flight is directed by onboard AI + autonomy stack rather than continuous human remote-piloting. Per DEPLOY's framework, the cohort splits across three classes with distinct verification anchors: new-defense (Anduril Roadrunner/Fury/Ghost/Bolt + Helsing HX-2/HF-1 + Shield AI V-BAT + Quantum Systems + Neros); legacy-prime (General Atomics MQ-9 lifecycle); commercial-civilian (Skydio + Zipline + Wing + Matternet + Brinc + Wingcopter + XAG + Percepto + Flytrex). Gating events split by class: BVLOS regulatory clearance for commercial; DoD contracts + fielded systems for defense. Editorial discipline: remotely-piloted-vs-autonomous honesty matters; MQ-9 + TB2 + Neros Archer are recorded as remotely-piloted, not autonomous. The framework resists 'drone = AI' inflation.

  • What is the Neros Archer?

    The Neros Archer is an attack-FPV drone from California-based Neros (founded 2023 by Soren Monroe-Anderson + Olaf de Senerpont Domis). Army PBAS program contract (NOT Replicator-funded; the PBAS-vs-Replicator distinction matters editorially). ~6,000 to Ukraine per Agent A entity record; aggregator-inflated production-rate aspirations (10k/month / 1M/yr) rejected per Agent A entity discipline. Remotely-piloted FPV NOT autonomous per Agent A entity record (operator-supervision distinction featured). Per DEPLOY's autonomous drones cluster framework, Archer anchors the attack-FPV sub-category distinct from reconnaissance (Vector) + persistent-strike (Anduril Ghost-X) + VTOL ISR (Shield AI V-BAT).

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Founders (2)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Neros.

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Recent coverage

Neros in third-party press

Trump heaps praise on SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell and thanks her for $325 million Trump Accounts gift

Jul 9, 2026

Neros Closes $75M Series B Fundraise led by Sequoia Capital

Jan 1, 2025

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